St. Paul's Memorial Church - St. Paul's Memorial Church, Charlottesville, VA
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Pentecost 12
Looking at our ongoing response to need a year after Hurricane Katrina.
You Are What You Eat
Forever repeating an old adage, my grandmother used to tell me, “You are what you eat.” When I was five years old, I puzzled over what she meant by this. Was she suggesting that if I ate a ham sandwich, I was going to grow up to be a pig? Or was it that our vegetarian friends were destined to be reborn as tomato plants? “You are what you eat.” Since we lived on Long Island Sound at the time, and a lot of the locals ate eels, the implications for some kids I knew were really alarming.Jesus is the Bread of Life
God's love and grace are freely given so that everyone may know life. Jesus, through whom the whole world was made, said that he will not lose anything that has been given him; but will present it to the Father at the last day.
Transfiguration
One of the polling organizations—Gallup, I think it was—did a survey of American religious attitudes several years ago. They asked what denominations people belonged to, and whether they had ever had what they would call a “religious experience.” How do you think we Episcopalians came out? . . . No, you’re wrong, we weren’t last, we weren’t anywhere near last. In fact, we came out at the very top of mainline denominations. Somewhere between seventy and eighty percent of Episcopalians said that they’d had, at least once in their lives, some sort of religious experience. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? Take that, Presbyterians!Jesus Calms the Wind
In Christ we are given grace and gifts for ministry to build up the Body of Christ. When we are in need or facing overwhelming obstacles Jesus is present to calm the storm.
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