When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. Pentecost, the great feast of the church’s founding, comes on Sunday. It is always a liminal sort of festival; it comes in near proximity to the end of the school year, and at the threshold of the...
Q. Is God’s activity limited to these rites? A. God [is not limited] to these rites; they are patterns of countless ways by which God uses material things to reach out to us. An Outline of the Faith [“The Catechism”], BCP, p. 861 We are going back to...
Sunday’s reading from John’s gospel brings around the sixth of seven “I am” statements by which Jesus discloses to his followers who he is and why he has come: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” Taken as a whole, however, the reading itself contains a...