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Break Open the Word: February 2014
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The Last Sunday after the Epiphany, 2 March 2014. The Last Sunday after the Epiphany, 2 March 2014. Psalm 2 or Psalm 99. I just finished reading Joan Breton Connelly’s excellent book The Parthenon Enigma – a new understanding of the West’s most iconic building and the people who made it. [1]. Her first chapter is entitled “The Sacred Rock – the Myth and Power of Place.”. In the flat plains of Mesopotamia, and honored the Acropolis and Olympus as places where gods touched the earth. 8220;The only way you ...
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Break Open the Word: December 2014
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The Second Sunday after Christmas, 4 January 2015. The Second Sunday after Christmas, 4 January 2014. Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19a. St Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23, or St. Luke 2:41-52, or St. Matthew 2:1-12. Background: From Christmas to Epiphany. In past comments I’ve described the important days that immediately follow Christmas, namely St. Stephen’s Day (26 December), St. John’s Day (27 December), and The Holy Innocents (28 December). And finally the Gospel for the Feast of the Epiphany ( St. Matthew 2:1-12.
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Break Open the Word: The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 10 May 2015
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The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 10 May 2015. The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 10 May 2015. Background: Baptism in the name of Jesus. Would also support this point of view. For those of you who might be interested in exploring this further you might want to look at Lars Hartman’s ‘Into the Name of the Lord Jesus’ – Baptism in the Early Church. While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the H...
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Break Open the Word: May 2014
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The Seventh Sunday of Easter, 1 June 2014. The Seventh Sunday of Easter, 1 June 2014. Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36. I Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11. From Cathedral Ridge, Woodland Park, Colorado. Aetheria, in her journal about the observances of Christian Palestine in the fourth century, mentions the vigil of this feast day. St Augustine and St. Chrysostom both mention the actual feast day along with other ancients following the early fifth century. Its placement as the 40. In this scene, and one ought to really compare...
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Break Open the Word: April 2014
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The Third Sunday of Easter, 4 May 2014. The Third Sunday of Easter, 4 May 2014. Acts 2:14a, 36-41. Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17. First, a thank you to Nigel Renton who pointed out to me that my auto correction on my computer kept substituting “periscope” for “pericope”. Thank you, Nigel. Although, periscope might have some advantages here. Background: Breaking of the Bread. What was it that made a rather common cultural and religious act turn into a mode of recognition of the Risen One? I am certain that they ce...
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Break Open the Word: March 2014
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The Fifth Sunday in Lent, 6 April 2014. The Fifth Sunday in Lent, 6 April 2014. William Blake "Ezekiel's Vision". Ezekiel, the son of a priestly family, most likely spent most of his prophetic career outside of Palestine, most likely in Babylon where he was deported along with other Judean elites in the sixth century BCE. His early period in Jerusalem was probably during the religious reforms of King Josiah. He was active from around 593 through 571 BCE. Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel is caught in a net of polit...
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Break Open the Word: The Seventh Sunday after Easter, 17 May 2015
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The Seventh Sunday after Easter, 17 May 2015. The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 10 May 2015. Acts 1:15-17, 21-26. Background: The Feast of the Ascension. Acts 1:15-17, 21-26. In what ways are you a leader in your church? What kind of leadership is needed in your church? How are leaders chosen? Psalm 1 Beatus vir qui non abiit. Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, *. Nor lingered in the way of sinners,. Nor sat in the seats of the scornful! Their delight is in the law of the LORD, *.
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Break Open the Word: May 2015
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The Feast of the Holy Trinity, 31 May 2015. The Feast of the Holy Trinity, 31 May 2015. Psalm 29, or Canticle 2 or 13. Background: Luther’s Sanctus. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said:. Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;.
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Break Open the Word: April 2015
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter, 3 May 2015. The Fifth Sunday of Easter, 3 May 2015. He replied, "How can I, unless someone guides me? And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:. Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,. And like a lamb silent before its shearer,. So he does not open his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.". The poor shall eat and b...
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Break Open the Word: January 2015
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The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, 1 February 2015. The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, 1 February 2015. The office of the prophet is one that is often misunderstood in our time. Indeed, amongst fundamental Christians, the prophetic role is seen as one of telling the future. The ancient term “seer” may have given rise to this understanding of the prophet. The Hebrew term navi,. Is best described in. The Hebrew name comes from the verb n-b. We see a common problem of discernment. What did God want?
