From the Rector’s Study

In his book, God is More than Enough, Pastor Tony Evans shares this story: On a trip in the African rain forest, a man was following a guide. As they pushed onward into deeper and darker jungle,
the guide, using his machete, constantly whacked away at the thick green growth that rose like a wall everywhere before them. “How do you know where to go?” the man asked. “Where’s the path?” The guide replied, “I am the path.”

Service bulletin for April 14, 2024

The disciples are gathered behind locked doors. Jesus appears and says peace be with you receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive, they are forgiven if not their sins are retained.

The good news of Easter, and yet puzzling and confusing. When Peter and the other disciple go into the tomb and see that Jesus is not there, John says that he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Today we hear the Easter gospel in Mark the short ending. And this the ending or some of the oldest versions of Mark’s Gospel. And the ending: they were afraid.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could just go to sleep and only wake up after or be transported quickly to next week or when the pain and worry would be over?

The ideas and items for today are Bread, Wine, and Foot washing. We will have communion as you see in the bulletin, but the concentration is on the foot washing.

Whenever there is an election of a Bishop there is always thoughts about who will let their name stand. All of us a priests think about it wonder about being Bishop. A colleague captured the essence of the reality of our playing with the idea. That all of us would like to be Bishop for a day, but beyond that, to deal with the problems and stresses of the position day in and day out for years is not what we want. So, who would want to do so?

Interesting, it is Lent and the idea of penitential themes and concepts. And here we have both the New Covenant being expressed in Jeremiah and the priest for ever in the order of Melchizedek. What is going on?