Some people are more concerned about rules than others. That has always been the case.
Sermons on Discipleship (Page 2)
But Mary’s “Yes” demonstrates that joy comes when we give ourselves over to the divine purpose.
On the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, Fr. Robinson preaches about being an active Christian and an active member of your church. Today’s readings are 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:25-5:2 and The Gospel According to John 6:35, 41-51. You can see those readings and more in our online bulletin which can be found at this link.
The mana story teaches us that blessings stored soon spoil.
What we need to know is that God’s compassion, his loving energy toward the needy, propels all our Apostolic activities.
May we, like John, constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth’s sake.
By bringing the disciples along to observe his own drubbing down at the hands of his hometown community, Jesus is teaching them that his and theirs is a ministry in which they will experience rejection, even humiliation, and when that happens, they will literally dust themselves off and get back to work.
Trusting Jesus is joyful.
…Now here comes Jesus proclaiming a new kind of family defined as those who seek to do God’s will, regardless of their family or kinship background.
With the Spirit’s help, we too are able to speak truth to the powers of the world. And this means that wherever and whenever we see injustice, we are duty-bound to address it.