This morning we are going to baptize Hunter as part of our worship. Hunter is the son of Alex and Katie, and the grandson of Gray Mason. Alex and Katie live in California and are visiting in the Jacksonville area for a couple of weeks. I officiated at Alex and Katie’s wedding two years ago, so I am honored that they have asked that I baptize Hunter.
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This morning we are going to baptize Hunter as part of our worship. Hunter is the son of Alex and Katie, and the grandson of Gray Mason. Alex and Katie live in California and are visiting in the Jacksonville area for a couple of weeks. I officiated at Alex and Katie’s wedding two years ago, so I am honored that they have asked that I baptize Hunter.
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This morning we heard from the Song of Solomon as the reading from Hebrew Scripture. This is the only time in our three-year lectionary cycle that the Song of Solomon is read, and the Song of Solomon is one of the few books in the Bible where God is never mentioned in the entire book. Printer-Friendly Version
As most of you probably know Caren and I just returned from three weeks in England and Scotland. It was a fantastic trip … three days in London, a couple of days in York, then a 10-day tour of Scotland, and a final week in Edinburgh. Printer-Friendly Version
Last Sunday we considered the Gospel theme of Jesus as the Bread of Life. And now, in the Gospel today, we hear Jesus say that he is the “Living Bread.” For me, this is absolutely the essential heart of our worship together as we share the Holy Eucharist, our Holy Communion. It helps to begin to understand what Jesus is saying if we keep in mind that Jesus knows that he does not have much time left to be physically present with his disciples…and we can hear his yearning for them to know his Real Presence continuing even beyond his life upon this earth. Printer-Friendly Version
For no fewer than five Sundays, of which this is the third, the Gospel readings are from this same chapter of John’s Gospel, which has many references to the image of Bread. They explore the theme of our Lord as Bread for our very Souls./// In today’s Gospel we hear Jesus say, “I am the Bread of Life”. Those who heard him say it - did not understand and the author probably knew that people of all time would have a problem understanding it. But there is so much about this in this Gospel, that we know there must be something pretty important about it. Certainly it is pretty important for US, considering that we worship together with the Eucharist as our central act of worship. We hear “The Body of Christ/The Bread of Heaven” at nearly every Eucharist as we receive Communion. ////// The message of Today’s Gospel is clearly that our Lord is trying to bring the disciples toward a deeper reality of what his teachings mean. We can probably find ourselves among those disciples. |
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