Sunday Worship
for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (September 6, 2020)
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The readings for this Sunday are available here.
Believe it or not, it’s already September. September 2, 2020, to be precise. It’s also the Wednesday after the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, according to the steady tick of the church calendar. I for one don’t want to know how many weeks it’s been since we all ceased gathering in person sometime in the middle of Lent. Recently I’ve needed to do some solitary work in our beloved church building, and have intentionally left the purple cloth carefully wrapped around the processional cross.
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The readings for Sunday are available here.
“For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.”
My spiritual journey over the last few years has involved a concerted effort to learn what it means to simply be myself in a ministry role. But while my personal context has been aimed at formal, possibly ordained ministry, I’m convinced that all of us are called to undertake this work of learning to simply be ourselves with each other, because that’s really what it means to be fully ourselves, as best we can. As Jesus seems to hold up here, we are all called to find our lives.
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