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The Church is "Sacramental"---Holy Thursday

3/27/2013

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Part of our shared midweek Lenten Service series "The Church is: ..."  

Ash Wednesday: "Liturgical"
Week 2: "catholic" 
Week 3: "evangelical"
Week 4: "orthodox"
Week 5: "confessional"
Week 6: "apostolic"
Holy Thursday: "Sacramental"
Good Friday: "Cruciform"
Easter Sunday: "The One Holy Church"

John 13:1-15, 34-35

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  

It is the Thursday of holy week.  It is Our Lord’s last night on earth before He will face the cross, and there He goes as always doing earthly things that have a heavenly point.  His disciples as usual miss the point.  He washes their feet, and yet He’s talking about something else.  “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward [after My resurrection] you will understand.” Peter realizes how ridiculous this is for your master, your teacher, to act like the lowest servant in the house by washing your feet.  He tries to safeguard His Lord’s dignity, saying, “You shall never wash my feet.  You are more important than this.”  But Our Lord responds, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”  Clearly, this is not just about foot washing.  Our Lord is talking about the cleanness of your sins forgiven.  Those who hang on to their sins, who do not yield them to the Lord, who will not be served by Him, washed by Him, are unclean.  They have no part in Him.  For He is a sponge which sucks not only your sin but you yourself into Him through the sacrament of Holy Baptism.  You are part of Him.  Part of His body.  Part of the Church.  For the Church is sacramental.  


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Faithful Insanity in a Saving Supper---Holy Thursday

4/5/2012

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Exodus 12:1-14 
1 Corinthians 11:23-32 
John 13:1-15, 34-35

In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  
God’s people were called “Israel,” which in their language means “He who wrestles with God.”   God’s people are they who wrestle with God.  Who grasp hold of their deity and hang on no matter what, insisting that He bless them!  That’s faith in your God.  That kind of faith sees you through whatever life throws at you and hangs on to God insisting that He bless you.  Insisting that He will bless you even through what you are suffering right now.  
That modern intellectual, Einstein, is said to have said that doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity.  Well, by that definition faith may be insane; for faith hangs on to Lord no matter what, expecting Him to bless us.  But we might re-cast that statement this way: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results (ie., clinging to God and being faithful even when it seems He has abandoned you) is the definition of persevering in faith, knowing that eventually Lord will bless those who cling to Him.   

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