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coming to my web page. I hope you will find something of interest here.
Let me know what you think. This is a blog in some respects. I am
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Prayer
for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Almighty and everlasting God, you
govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the
supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (BCP
p.215 )
[Guide us, Lord, to walk in the path
in which you would lead us.....]
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Epiphany 4-C [Jer 1:410; Ps 71:1-17; 1 Cor
14:12b-20; Lk 4:21-32]
St Mark's Church, Paw Paw
“Be
adult in thinking….” (1 Cor 14:20)
By Fr. Joseph Neiman
The former
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, tells how he visited a
congregation in England, and on the wall of the Parish Center he found a
plaque honoring a former rector. It said something to the effect that this
priest had served as pastor to the congregation for, let’s say, some
twenty-five years and added: “without a hint of enthusiasm.” I’ll explain
that in a moment.
I wish to
continue speaking about Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians this week as I
have for the past couple. His letter was written around the year 60AD to a
thriving Christian Community in Corinth which Paul had helped get started.
He is writing most likely from Ephesus, and he has received word that the
Church is badly divided over several issues. He addresses these each in
turn in this letter. I suggest you read it completely, as homework for
extra credit so you could see for yourselves what I mean.
Throughout the letter
Paul urges them in the name of our Lord Jesus to have no divisions among
them, but rather, they ought to be in agreement with one another.
In chapters
11, 12, and 14 he speaks to divisions in their experience of worship, and
in chapter 13 he gives them a vision of what should lead to agreement with
one another in Christ in all things, including worship In a passionate
appeal he tells them that love is the greatest of all spiritual gifts,
that “love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or
resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing. but rejoices in the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures
all things” (! Cor 13:5-7).
In today’s
lesson, Paul is speaking about one of the expressions that was taking
place when the Corinthians gathered for worship: namely, the speaking in
tongues. This is the ecstatic uttering of syllables generated out of the
intensity of a religious experience which cannot be expressed in the
normal use of language. In our tradition “speaking in tongues” probably
means singing off key or saying the wrong version of the Lord’s prayer.
(continued here)
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Daily Meditation
written by Henri Nouwen
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The Church is a very human organization but also the garden
of God's grace. It is a place where great sanctity keeps
blooming. Saints are people who make the living Christ
visible to us in a special way. Some saints have given
their lives in the service of Christ and his Church; others
have spoken and written words that keep nurturing us; some
have lived heroically in difficult situations; others have
remained hidden in quiet lives of prayer and meditation;
some were prophetic voices calling for renewal; others were
spiritual strategists setting up large organizations or
networks of people; some were healthy and strong; others
were quite sick, and often anxious and insecure.
But all of them in their own ways lived in the Church as in
a garden where they heard the voice calling them the Beloved
and where they found the courage to make Jesus the center of
their lives.
[My Motto]
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,*
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens—
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
5The Lord God
has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backwards
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"Their sound has gone out into all lands,
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