Posts from: Sunday, December 27, 2020
Verbo (Christmas 2020) by Tom Ward
Today’s Gospel of John has always been one of my favorites. As a boy, it thrilled me with an air of mystery and even magic – especially when intoned near the end of a Festival of Lessons and Carols or in a darkened church at Midnight Mass. I liked it way more than Luke’s cute…
Humpty Dumpty (Christmas Eve 2020) by Amma Susan
If sin means separation from God, then yes, of course Jesus was sinless, because there’s no distance between Jesus and God, and God and Spirit. And, when Jesus was born among us, as I preached last week, that’s the invitation for us to see and grasp that there it’s possible for us too, to know…
God Contained? (Adv4 Yr B) by Amma Susan
What can hold our God? It’s just mind-boggling to me, that The Creator of all things, The one who created heaven and earth and whom earth and even heaven itself cannot contain, would willingly go to the point of complete self-emptying, to be contained within the womb of a young woman.
Sleepwalking (Adv1 YrB) by Amma Susan
Sonambulism involves performing tasks that require a high-state of consciousness but are acted out often repetitively, in a low-state of consciousness; doing things of which we aren’t aware and don’t remember. It’s true on a theological level as well. Sonambulistic faith deflects rather than engages, turns away from what our Lord beckons us to see….