Tag: peace
-
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Although I have picked up the task of typing the order of service for our Sunday morning worship, that doesn’t mean I read the bulletin ahead of time, especially if whoever is planning the service has copied-and-pasted in various blocks of text representing parts of the service. This explains how today’s prayer of confession hit…
-
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Last week, we realized that almost everyone, including me, was going to be out of town this Sunday, so if anyone ended up discussing Genesis 19 they’ll have to fill me in next week. From what I could tell from my advance copy of the order of service, the preacher of the day was going…
-
Where Violence Has to End
When I heard the news about the massacre at the New Zealand mosques on Friday, I had to stop, and think. Something my dad taught me, a long time ago, came back to me: “What’s your part in this?” I hadn’t thought of that conversation for a long time. We had it more than once.…
-
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. Ephesians 6:15
-
Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning in our class we reviewed the possible readings of Matthew 12:1-14, and then tried to think about what those different readings might mean for us. I had to point out that in the first story of the pair, Jesus compares himself and his disciples to David and David’s men, and to the priests…
-
Second Sunday in Advent
I learned a few things this morning. That the word “comfort” originates in the word for “strengthen.” That in the Bible verse “I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil” (Jeremiah 29:11) which is quoted everywhere and shows up that way in about 1,000 memes, the word translated…
-
First Sunday in Advent
Yesterday, our pastor explained to our tiny congregation that the First Sunday in Advent is the “Christian New Year” – at least in the sense of it’s being the first Sunday of the new liturgical year. Happy New Year. Every year, Christians who have this liturgical consciousness embark on an annual cycle of observance, remembrance,…
Matters of Interpretation 