by the Very Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson Early in the morning Jesus came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat
“It never ceases to amaze me how easily the church, even our beloved Episcopal Church, slips into a kind of legalism, using scripture to lend credence to creating even more rules and rubrics, higher walls and thicker barriers, in a world already drifting apart, especially when all we crave is community, connection, and healing. We yearn to come together!”
by the Very Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson Also, women and men were bringing him children so that he might hold them and the disciples rebuked them.
by the Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson the MOTHER OF ALL cares for the stranger,orphan and widow she bears up Mark 7:24, from A Women’s Lectionary for
by Jered Weber-Johnson “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will
by Jered Weber-Johnson “Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to
by the Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson “So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something
by the Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson 6 Remember your maternal love, O WOMB OF LIFE,and your faithful love,for they have been from of old.7 The sins
“The spiritual greats of our faith tradition tell us that fasting is an opportunity to draw closer to God. In giving something up for a short season, we create necessary space to focus new or renewed attention on our connection with God. I wish I could say this has worked for me. But, more often than not, when I am fasting, I seem to become more keenly aware of my appetites, my hunger, my grumbling stomach or my fuzzy decaffeinated brain. So, how is it that we cultivate space for God? Or, more importantly, how do we cultivate the desire to find our way across the gulfs between us and the one who made us?”
“This is why we practice our faith together over and over with rituals and rites that affirm we are worthy of love and dignity, that we are created in the image and likeness of God. Because none of us can believe on our own, each and every day, that we are loveable and deserving of love. We have to hold this truth together in community, reminding and being reminded by one another, by the nearness of sacraments like Eucharist and baptism, by the stories of the saints and Jesus himself,.”
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