[Propertalk] FW: Proper 22 b - Part 3 of 3

[Joe Parrish]

Part 3 of 3

>From Robert Morrison

 

 

            This morning’s Gospel passage shows Jesus talking our harshly against those who would use power against the weak in society. This morning’s verses, as countless others do, speak to us about ensuring that everyone is treated with kindness, and charity – another side of the compassion which prepares us for our deaths.

            Of course, we’d all rather they be later rather than sooner in our lives. Nevertheless, none of us knows, so today, and tomorrow, and every day we prepare by listening to God; by speaking with God; by acting alongside God wherever there is anything not as it should be. We should be able to say to the people of Roseburg as well as to our neighbours, indeed to everyone, “Let the church help, whatever your need”. And we need to remind ourselves that the church – this congregation and every congregation – should be standing ready to help us.

            So we commit ourselves into God’s care, trusting that we are loved and cherished, no matter what evil Satan and the world may fling at us. And we pray, as another petition of The Great Litany puts it:

            “That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand; to

            comfort and help the weak-hearted; to raise up those who

            fall; and finally to beat down Satan under our feet,

                        We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.”

            God, bless us!

NOTES

[1]           “The Great Litany”, B.C.P. page 148 ff.     http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/litany.pdf   

 

2           “Job’s wife and Job” http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-viewimage.pl?SID=20150929975524902&code=act&RC=46621&Row=&code=act&return=act

 

3           Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE, “Brother, Give us a Word” ssje.org/word/

 

 

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