Thursday, June 15, Eucharist
This morning's Eucharist celebrated Evelyn Underhill, Theologian and Mystic, 1941 (thank you Ed Howlett for remembering!). Presiding Bishop Griswold (notice the spelling) preached on the text taken from the Book of Wisdom. In this text Wisdom is a person, in feminine form, that imparts her knowledge through relationships. It is the knowing, rather than the knowing about, through which God imparts wisdom. The intimacy of relationships makes us friends with God.
Our table discussion today asked us how the Holy Spirit guards and guides us in our daily work. My table was stumped for anything to say, so we spent our time discussing last night's hearing on the response to the Windsor Report. I keep remembering what Bishop Griswold said during our first Eucharist - if we call upon the Holy Spirit and are taken seriously, we may find ourselves in uncomfortable situations. I also remember a sermon that my good friend described to me that she preached at a conference last week just before she was ordained (Rev Jenny Tucker). I am not as articulate as she, but taking the story of Jesus healing the leper, Jenny said that two things had to happen for the leper to be healed: the leper had to break the Law (by being in a place where the unclean were forbidden to be - in community with the healthy) and Jesus had to break social and cultural laws (by touching an unclean person, which would have made him ritually unclean). Without either of those brave steps, healing would not have taken place. I don't know where that leaves me on the Windsor Report and our response to it, but I do believe whatever comes out of Convention will be okay if we truly allow the Holy Spirit to breathe here.
I thought you might like an idea of what the worship space is like. The one shows the "stage" where the altar and the other accoutrements are. The other is taken from the choir risers showing the people coming in before workship. The accoustics are not good, as you can imagine. Fred likens them to 1950s Radio Shack hifi schlock.
Our table discussion today asked us how the Holy Spirit guards and guides us in our daily work. My table was stumped for anything to say, so we spent our time discussing last night's hearing on the response to the Windsor Report. I keep remembering what Bishop Griswold said during our first Eucharist - if we call upon the Holy Spirit and are taken seriously, we may find ourselves in uncomfortable situations. I also remember a sermon that my good friend described to me that she preached at a conference last week just before she was ordained (Rev Jenny Tucker). I am not as articulate as she, but taking the story of Jesus healing the leper, Jenny said that two things had to happen for the leper to be healed: the leper had to break the Law (by being in a place where the unclean were forbidden to be - in community with the healthy) and Jesus had to break social and cultural laws (by touching an unclean person, which would have made him ritually unclean). Without either of those brave steps, healing would not have taken place. I don't know where that leaves me on the Windsor Report and our response to it, but I do believe whatever comes out of Convention will be okay if we truly allow the Holy Spirit to breathe here.
I thought you might like an idea of what the worship space is like. The one shows the "stage" where the altar and the other accoutrements are. The other is taken from the choir risers showing the people coming in before workship. The accoustics are not good, as you can imagine. Fred likens them to 1950s Radio Shack hifi schlock.
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