After Easter Sunday, the Easter “Season” is not quite over, not by a longshot! In the Christian Church, what follows the story of the Passion of Christ is the time that the returned Christ walked among his followers until ascending into heaven, to sit at the right hand of God, as the Nicene Creed says. ...
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Maundy Thursday is the Christian commemoration during Holy Week of the great mandatum (mandate) from Christ, the New Commandment that supersedes all the others: I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. (John 13:34, NRSV) Something that gets skipped over ...
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Thus, on the Feast day of St. Stephen (today in the Christian calendar), King Wenceslas looked out his window to see the poor man trying to find sticks and twigs, amongst the winter snow.
I’ve not added on to the ever-growing “Prayers of Our People” in a while, and today I have two additions which aren’t as strongly LGBTQ as some of the other stanzas. If there is any group of people on the planet these days who really need our continuing prayers, it’s the Christians. Clarity, discernment, and ...
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This is one of my favorite quotes from Sister Paula, one of my favorite Pentecostal preachers on the place of the (Universal) Church in our world today. AND, how we, as members of that universal community are to act: The Church is the hands of God, extended. – Alleluia!, Amen
