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Sermons on Love
God’s goal is not to cast us out into darkness but to gather us all to him in eternity.
Every one of us, in baptism, is buried with Christ in his death, to rise with him in resurrection. We are all called to be dead to sin and alive to God. We are all called to be saints.
The church is also filled with people who know God’s love and want to share it.
It did not happen all at once, but I did have a new birth.
Fr. Cannon preaches on Maundy Thursday. Tonight’s readings are Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 and The Gospel According to John 13:1-17, 31b-35. You can follow along with those readings and more by clicking on this link.
The horror and violence inflicted on Jesus showed the depth of human evil but also the ultimate defeat of human power. God’s love, as revealed in Jesus, can never be silence, never be killed, and it is that love that restores humanity.
Heart space reminds us that we cannot solve problems from the same level of consciousness from which they were created.
Today is an important reminder that joy does not take a season off, no matter what the circumstances.
So how do we to respond, as Christians, to this violence and the threats of violence? What do our scriptures today have to say about this?