tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75368573983921339152024-03-21T17:44:35.396-07:00The City of GodThe Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.comBlogger905125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-27028190104396805102016-08-30T14:15:00.003-07:002016-08-30T14:15:37.871-07:00A New Chapter<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After 8 years at St. Augustine’s in Galveston, I have accepted the call to be the rector of St. Luke’s in Livingston, Texas. It has been a wonderful 8 years in Galveston; a time of rebuilding after Hurricane Ike, a time of bridge building with our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters, a time of joy at marriages, births and baptisms, a time of sorrow during illness and death, and a time of wonder as we lived together, prayed together and worked in ministry together. It was<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> a time of the growth of the community garden of the art ministry of the Seaside Seniors. It is a community of faith whose charism, at its heart, is hospitality, of welcoming the stranger. Mary and I will miss St. Augustine’s and all of the wonderful people we have come to know and love. We have been together in sacred spaces. Our last Sunday will be June 26th, after which I will go on sabbatical to refresh and to a new and exciting ministry at St. Luke’s in Livingston.</span></span></span></div>
The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-56539864333947833062016-03-02T10:59:00.001-08:002016-03-02T10:59:57.065-08:00The people of God: a community that is given such security in the love of the true God able to forgo all human privileges and rights which it might claim<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">On this Wednesday in the third week of Lent, we hear from Paul’s first letter to the Church in Corinth:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that ‘all of us possess knowledge.’ Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; but anyone who loves God is known by him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ‘no idol in the world really exists’, and that ‘there is no God but one.’ Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ‘Food will not bring us close to God.’ We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling-block to the weak. For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols? So by your knowledge those weak believers for whom Christ died are destroyed. But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall. (1 Cor. 8:1-13).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">[A]lmost all the meat available in a city like Corinth would have been offered at some shrine or other; and idol-temples served not only as butcher's shops but also as restaurants. To avoid idol meat altogether might, then, mean <i>de facto</i></span><span style="color: black;"> vegetarianism (an option forced on some in any case by economic circumstances). For a Jew, facing this question would pose quite sharply the options we just noted. One major Jewish position regarded pagan worship as idolatry, and insisted that genuine monotheists must not flirt with it. Another major Jewish tradition said that idols were non-existent and irrelevant, and that the one creator God claimed as his own all that idols have usurped. This second way may well have been helped by the kind of speculative Jewish gnosis according to which one's relationship to the one true God elevated one above the problems of the pagan world. The first way could lead to dualism, the second to assimilation. Paul carves out a way which avoids both.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Paul’s response is rooted in the Shema Israel, “Hear o Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD alone." N.T Wright reasons that the pagan pantheon is not irrelevant. It must be confronted. One cannot retreat from paganism, just as one must not assimilate. One must instead worship the true God, the one whom paganism parodies. And for Paul this true God is revealed in Jesus of Nazareth. It means, clearly, that love and concern for other members of the community is to be <b><i>placed ahead of all attempts at personal self-realization</i></b></span><span style="color: black;">. Paul spells this out in terms precisely of Jesus who is God and who died on the cross.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">For Paul, Jesus’ crucifixion is not simply about attaining individual salvation; rather, </span><b><i><span style="color: black;">it means the remaking of the community of the people of God into a community that is given such security in the love of the true God that it is able to forgo all human privileges and rights to which it might otherwise lay claim</span></i></b><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"><span> </span><i>Id</i></span><span style="color: black;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray:<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Gracious and living God, you alone are God. In you we live and move and have our being. Soften us that we may stop trying to put ourselves first, that we put aside our arrogance, and remember that we are a people that have been remade into a new creation, and that we are called to make that known to the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please keep Bishop Doyle and his family in your prayers as he undergoes surgery, and for a quick and full recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lenten Series: Reconciliation, today at 6PM at Trinity with Fr. Peter and Br. Michael of Holy Cross Monastery as our speakers.</span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-44482930982196461662016-03-01T14:41:00.003-08:002016-03-01T14:41:24.337-08:00St. David of Wales<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Today, during the third week of Lent, the Church remembers the life and ministry of St. David of Wales, Bishop of Mynyw.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">David was born around the year 500.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">David was renowned as a teacher and preacher; he founded monasteries and churches in Wales, Dumnonia and Brittany. St David's Cathedral stands on the site of the monastery he founded in the Glyn Rhosyn valley of Pembrokeshire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Around 550, David attended the Synod of Brefi, where his eloquence in opposing Pelagianism (a heresy which taught that we do not need God’s grace and can be good of our own will) inspired his fellow monks to elect him primate (first bishop) of the region. David presided over the Synod of Caerleon (the "Synod of Victory") around 569 which condemned Pelagianism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">David’s last words to his followers were in a sermon Sunday before his death: (in Welsh) "Arglwydi, vrodyr, a chwioryd, Bydwch lawen a chedwch ych ffyd a'ch cret, a gwnewch y petheu bychein a glywyssawch ac a welsawch gennyf i. A mynheu a gerdaf y fford yd aeth an tadeu idi", which translates, "Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us." "Do the little things in life" ("Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd") is today a very well-known phrase in Welsh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: Almighty God, who called your servant David to be a faithful and wise steward of your mysteries for the people of Wales: Mercifully grant that, following his purity of life and zeal for the gospel of Christ, we may with him receive the crown of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and ever. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday, at 6 PM at Trinity, we continue our Lenten Series: Reconciliation, with Fr. Peter and Br. Michael of Hoy Cross Monastery, Beaumont.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please remember Bishop Doyle who will be undergoing surgery for prostate cancer, and for everyone on our Prayer List.</span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-19566586815653670342016-02-26T12:10:00.005-08:002016-02-26T12:10:59.002-08:00Corinth: Sin City<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">On this Friday in the Second Week of Lent, we hear from Paul’s letter to the Church in Corinth.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Paul is often portrayed, and I believe unjustly so, as being against women.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Today’s reading from the Daily Office (the Church’s Daily Prayer), is evidence of Paul’s true attitude:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: ‘It is well for a man not to touch a woman.’ But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. This I say by way of concession, not of command. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain unmarried as I am. But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion. <span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">(1 Cor. 7:1-9)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Corinth was the “Sin City” in its day.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">It was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia and was geographically located in such a place that it inevitably became a trade center of the ancient world. As a result, people from all areas of the world, with different backgrounds and cultures, moved to Corinth. Corinth "had a reputation for commercial prosperity, but she was also a by-word for immoral living. The very word κορινθιαζεσθαι (pronounced “korinthiazesthai”), mean “to live like a Corinthian,” had become a part of the Greek language as a catch phrase for fornication, decadent and immoral living.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">In fact, there were 1,000 sacred prostitutes in the temple of Aphrodite on the Acrocorinth, plus plenty of prostitutes for the sailors and business folks coming through, but they were not sacred.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">In Corinth, women were an object.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">They could not vote, and they really had few rights. Contrast this with Paul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Notice how Paul places men and women on an equal basis: “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Such equality, treating women equally, was unheard of in Paul’s day especially in Corinth.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Paul was able to say that because of Christ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray the opening collect for the Second Sunday in Lent: O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">PLEASE REMEMBER THE FAMILY OF DOROTHY PLAVNICKY WHO DIED TODAY: </span></i></b><b><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Let us pray: O God of grace and glory, we remember before you this day our sister Dorothy. We thank you for giving her to us, her family and friends, to know and to love as a companion on our earthly pilgrimage. In your boundless compassion, console those who mourn. Give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth, until, by your call, we are reunited with those who have gone before; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LENTEN SERIES: RECONCILIATION - Next Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 6 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church, the Benedictine Monks of Holy Cross Monastery, Fr. Peter and Br. Michael, in Beaumont will be our speakers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Today the Episcopal Church remembers the life and ministry of the Rev. John Roberts.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">During this season of Lent, Fr. Roberts is a reminder to us of personal sacrifice for the sake of others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Assigned to minister to the Shoshone and Arapahos on the Wind River Reservation, he set about his work by learning all he could about Native American customs and beliefs, believing that by knowing the people he hoped to minister to he would be more effective. He also learned the native languages, eventually translating the gospel for his Native American congregates.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Roberts often said the object of his work among the Indians was to make them self-supporting. With this in mind he established two schools, the Indian Boarding School at Ft. Washakie and the Shoshone Indian Mission Boarding School. Roberts cultivated friendships with tribal leaders, including Chief Black Coal and Chief Washakie, whom he later baptized. He earned the trust of the tribal leadership and was often involved in their negotiations with the agents of the federal government. The Indians rewarded Roberts for his fairness in dealing with them by giving him the name "Elder Brother."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Roberts also ministered to the non-natives of the state, establishing Episcopal churches in towns across Wyoming. Roberts retired from active missionary work in 1921 but continued to live on the reservation until his death in 1949 at the age of ninety-seven. (Taken from the University of Wyoming)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: Almighty God, who raised up your servant John Roberts to be a witness among the Shoshone and Arapahoe peoples: May we, inspired by his example and prayers, invite all people to the riches of your grace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="color: #073763;"> I'm sending this special note to make you aware that I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">JoAnne and I have been assured by my very capable doctors that this particular cancer is completely treatable with surgery and medication. I will undergo surgery on March 3, and I look forward to a full recovery. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">The shock of this kind of news at any time is upending, to say the least. The cancer diagnosis reminded me, and underscored for me, my complete dependence on a compassionate and merciful God who removes fear and uncertainty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">I have been in prayer, under spiritual direction and on retreat. I am ready for the surgery and what comes after. We have asked a few close friends to be present during my short stay in the hospital.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">I am grateful for a talented and dedicated diocesan team, who, along with Bishop Dena Harrison and Bishop Jeff Fisher, will be able to manage our ministry very well during my brief absence. I should be back to my regular schedule in a month's time. I plan to return to work April 1, with a renewed appreciation for all of our ministry and gratitude for the ability to be God's hands in the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">I ask your prayers for my physicians, nurses and family as well as for me during this time. Be assured of my prayers for you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Please remember everyone on our Prayer List, especially Bob as he is recovering from foot surgery, Audrey, John, Katie, for all those to be baptized, for the Anglican Communion, and for reconciliation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes. He returned to his brothers, and said, ‘The boy is gone; and I, where can I turn?’ Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. They had the long robe with sleeves taken to their father, and they said, ‘This we have found; see now whether it is your son’s robe or not.’ He recognized it, and said, ‘It is my son’s robe! A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.’ Then Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son for many days. All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, ‘No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.’ Thus his father bewailed him. Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard. <span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">(Gen. 37:25-36)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">How many times have we witnessed or experienced the terribly destructive nature of jealousies in our families.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Brothers selling their own brother into a life of slavery because they are jealous of him.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Father separated from son and lied to by his own children thinking that his son is dead.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Unfortunately, this happens quite frequently in families.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">God is well aware of our fallen nature.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">I for one am thankful that our God is a God who is just, but who has great mercy.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">God has a way of taking our weaknesses and bringing good out of them.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">He did that in the case of Joseph and his family.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">At the end of the Book of Genesis, Joseph, relying on God as his source of strength and life, says: “You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.” Gen. 50:20. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Lord God, we know that you can bring goodness out of our own petty jealousies.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Give us the grace to always love one another as You love us. Amen.</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-49511607296200152322016-02-16T14:46:00.001-08:002016-02-16T14:46:37.081-08:00What the rich, the powerful, the influential, the popular and the trend setters consider important, God does not.<div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black;">On this first full week of Lent, we hear from Paul’s letter to the Church in Corinth where he asks:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’ (1 Cor.1:20-31)</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-61852071342260263902016-02-12T12:50:00.004-08:002016-02-16T14:47:31.587-08:00Be of the Same Mind in the Lord<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my coworkers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:1-9).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Paul prays for his companions in ministry, Euodia and Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in Jesus. </span><span style="color: black;">The two women were leaders in the Church in Philippi.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">I wonder what their disagreement was.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">What might cause them to be at odds with each other?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Did it spread?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Did it cause a scandal since they were leaders in the Church? What did that do to the Church in Philippi?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Paul tells the Church community there not to worry; rather, rejoice in the Lord.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Paul urges the Church to keep their minds on good things, things which are honorable, just, pure, pleasing and commendable.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Paul bids them the peace of God which passes all understanding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">As the Episcopal Diocese of Texas gathers today and tomorrow for the 167<sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: black;"> Diocesan Council, I ask your prayers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look </span><span style="color: black;">favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were being cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #203864; font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please remember everyone on our Prayer List, especially Mark who lost his life, for Mark’s family, Roberts’ Family, Ben and Diane his parents and his sister Kathleen; we pray for Pat, John, Katie, Gladys, Karen, and all those who have asked for our prayers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fr. Chester J. Makowski+</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church</span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-7382861538174140592016-02-11T13:43:00.003-08:002016-02-11T13:43:44.337-08:00Look Beyond Yourself<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation so that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">(Phil. 3:17-21).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Paul is moved to tears for those who he calls enemies of the cross of Christ.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Why are they Christ’s enemies?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Their focus is solely on themselves and on their search for pleasure.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Paul calls those who follow Jesus to look beyond the self, to look beyond the immediate and to give ourselves over to what Jesus would have us do, and in doing Jesus’ will, we will be transformed and become more like Christ.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray:<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Next Wednesday, the 17<sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: black;"> of February 2016, we will meet at Grace Episcopal Church at 6 PM for Eucharist, followed by a light super, and then the presentation by our first Lenten speaker, The Rev. Dr. A. Katherine Grieb is Meade Professor of Biblical Interpretation and New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Please remember everyone on our Prayer List, especially John, Katie, Pat, Gladys, Helen, Karen, and those who are alone.</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-78914696012856431842016-02-10T13:23:00.000-08:002016-02-10T13:23:15.674-08:00Ash Wednesday<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Lent is a time of self-examination, repentance, prayer, fasting, and self-denial. Ashes from the burned palms of the preceding year’s Palm Sunday are blessed. With these ashes, the priest marks a cross on the foreheads of worshipers, saying, “remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:19). From Biblical times, sprinkling oneself with ashes has been a mark of sorrow for sin.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">What is sin?<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">The Greek word for it in the New Testament is </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ἁ</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">μαρτι</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ῶ</span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">ν (pronounced “hararton”), literally “missing the mark/not hitting the target.” During Lent we must be honest with ourselves, a not all together easy task, <span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">and ask: “How have I missed the mark?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">How have I failed to hit my target?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Has my missing my target caused pain to others?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Have I separated myself from others because I have missed the mark?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">How has missing the mark hurt not only others but God, and even myself?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">How have I cut myself off from God, neighbor and self?</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">How can I be reconciled to God, neighbor and even myself?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">With the Church all around the word, let us pray:<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word. And, to make a right beginning of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature, let us now kneel before the Lord, our maker and redeemer. </span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-91906456854695376552016-01-21T15:09:00.000-08:002016-01-21T15:09:09.634-08:00St. Agnes<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Today the Church remembers St. Agnes.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">It is also the anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">The Rev. Dr. Edward Ambrose writes this about St. Agnes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Around the year 304, in front of the Roman prefect, stood thirteen-year-old Agnes, pale but calm; Agnes was accused of being a Christian.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Agnes' parents were pagan, but it was customary for rich parents to entrust the education of daughters to nurse-slaves. Apparently, the nurse-slaves who were educating Agnes were Christian. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">“I am a Christian,” Agnes testifies to the prefect, “I have vowed my fidelity and my virginity to Christ.” With rage, the prefect explains: “Your blasphemy against the gods deserves death. But I will give you another chance. You choose: You can sacrifice to the goddess with the vestal virgins, or you will be dragged into the house of dishonor. Consider also the honor of your family.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Counting on the help of God, she calmly answers: “Mr. Prefect, if you only knew who was my God, you would not dare speak this way. He will send an angel to protect me.” The prefect-judge then stands up: “May this young girl, Agnes, convinced of blasphemy and of sacrilege, be stripped of her clothing, and be exposed in the house of shame!” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">The prefect is overwhelmed — he willingly would have let Agnes go, if it was not for the protests of the people who demand the death of this witch, an enemy of the gods. (A scene similar to the one of Holy Thursday in front of Pilate's court.) He entrusts the case to his sub-prefect, who orders that Agnes be burnt alive on a stake, in the public square. But the flames do not touch her. She prays: “I bless You, Almighty God, that, by Your Divine Son, I escaped the threats of faithless men. And behold, now You free me from all harm and worry amidst the flames. But I cannot wait to go to You.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: Almighty and everlasting God, who choose those whom the world deems powerless to put the powerful to shame: Grant us so to cherish the memory of your youthful martyr Agnes, that we may share her pure and steadfast faith in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Please pray for everyone on our Prayer List, and we especially remember all of those who are being ordained priests during this month, John, Katie, Pat, all of those victims of the attack in Pakistan, and for those who have no one to pray for them.</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-38723669627229276972016-01-15T12:56:00.000-08:002016-01-15T12:56:05.878-08:00The Wedding Feast of Cana<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">The appointed Gospel reading for this Friday in the Week of the First Sunday after Epiphany is the familiar story in John’s Gospel of the wedding feast at Cana where Jesus performs the first sign of the coming of the kingdom of God:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ Now standing there were six stone water-jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.’ Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there for a few days. (Jn. 2:1-12).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">“On the third day” is a phrase we will hear again, especially at the end of the Gospel.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">There is feasting on the third day; it is a day of rejoicing. It is the day of Resurrection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">The bride and groom have run out of wine for the celebration, and at that time and in that culture, it would have been humiliating. Here they are starting a life together, a merger of 2 families and they do not have enough to celebrate the event.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Mary asks Jesus to intercede for the young couple.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Jesus does.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">He takes water that is used for the rituals of purification and turns it into wine for rejoicing, and there is plenty for everyone. The wine steward pulls the groom aside and asks him what all this is about, “serve the good stuff first, and after they can’t tell anymore, bring out the cheap stuff.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">This is what the Kingdom of God looks like: At the Resurrection, there will be great rejoicing and feasting, and there no one will be in need. All of us, all of creation, will be purified and restored, in perfect union with God and with each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: Almighty God, whose Son revealed in signs and miracles the wonder of your saving presence: renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-61265589420191863152016-01-14T14:26:00.002-08:002016-01-14T14:26:25.484-08:00The Evil Route Is the Easy Way<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">On this Thursday after the Baptism of Our Lord, we hear from Paul’s letter to the Hebrews where he writes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today’, so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. As it is said, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? But with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">We are easily deceived.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Evil is not stronger.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">It is easier, more seductive.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Evil is the easier route. It is much harder to do that which is good.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">It is easy for us to harden our hearts when we do so in order to fulfill our own agenda.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Paul warns us to be careful and not to disguise evil for good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-77723729669041017502016-01-12T14:05:00.000-08:002016-01-12T14:05:47.093-08:00St. Aelred<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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life and ministry of St. Aelred who was born in 1109 in Durham and died on this
day in 1167. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aelred became master of the
Household of the King of Scotland., but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he found success at court unsatisfying. At the
age of 24, he entered the Cistercian monastery at Rievaulx in Yorkshire.
Bernard of Clairvaux encouraged him to write his first work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mirror of Charity</i>, which deals with
seeking to follow the example of Christ in all things. In 1147 he became abbot
of Rievaulx, a post which he held until his death of kidney disease twenty
years later at the age of 57. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His most
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">One could easily spend a whole book unpacking these words. The Word of God is the very ground of creation who then becomes a creature in creation; God fully with us as one with us to take us out of the darkness humanity was dwelling in to be brought into God’s living light bathed in grace so that we ascend to the very throne of God.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">One could read these words over and over again, and still find such depth in them to last, literally, an eternity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world, so it has been bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God. This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, and he has made known to us your love in the Spirit. </span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-32984338670616714932016-01-05T12:56:00.002-08:002016-01-05T12:58:19.504-08:00Put on Truth, Righteousness, Readiness, Faith, Salvation, and the Holy Spirit<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Epistle reading for this
Tuesday in the Second Week of Christmas comes from Paul’s letter to the Church
in Ephesus where he writes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finally,
be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Put on the whole armor
of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For
our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness,
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up
the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day,
and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand therefore, and fasten the belt
of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As
shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel
of peace. With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be
able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. </span></div>
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the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep
alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints. Pray also for
me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with
boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains.
Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak. (Ephesians 6:10-20).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paul speaks about being strong in
Christ, strong against the evils which try to tear down what which is
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul speaks of putting on truth,
righteousness, readiness, faith, salvation, and the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only must we proclaim the good news boldly
to the world, but we must also be bold to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hear</i></b> the good news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not an “either/or” thing, but a “both/and”
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we are called to boldly
proclaim the good news, you and I must be willing to hear the good news spoken
to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can only put on truth,
righteousness, readiness, faith, salvation, and the Holy Spirit if we
experience them ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Let us pray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almighty God, make us more and more like your
Son, Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, so that we might make the
good news part of who we are so that we may proclaim it boldly to the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Annual Parish Meeting after the 9
AM Rite II service on 17 January.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Seaside Seniors meet the
third Thursday of January in Sutton Hall at 11 AM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please remember everyone on our
Prayer List, and please make it a point to visit those who are unable to come
to see us at Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus calls us to
visit those who are alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your servant in Christ, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fr. Chester J. Makowski+</span></div>
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Church</span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-52267629886845138132016-01-04T14:07:00.002-08:002016-01-04T14:07:24.465-08:00Elizabeth Ann Seton: An American Saint<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Today the Episcopal Church remembers Elizabeth Ann Seton who lived from 28 August 1774 to 4 January 1821.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">James Kiefer writes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized in the Roman Catholic Church, on September 14, 1975.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Seton was born on August 28, 1774 to Richard Bayley of New York City. She was raised in the Episcopal Church. Her mother, daughter of an Episcopal priest, died when Elizabeth was three. At the age of nineteen, she married William Magee Seton, a wealthy businessman. Five children were born to the marriage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Her husband's business lost several ships at sea and the family ended up bankrupt. Soon after, her husband became ill and his doctors sent him to Italy for the warmer climate, with Elizabeth Seton accompanying him. In Italy, they were held in quarantine, during which time her husband died. She spent time with a wealthy family where she was exposed to Catholicism. Two years later she converted to Roman Catholicism, on March 14, 1805 and was received into the Church by the first bishop of Baltimore, John Carroll. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">On this Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Advent, we continue to hear from Luke’s Gospel.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Today we read how the Angel Gabriel visited Mary and how she responded to God’s call:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.’ But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. The angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?’ The angel said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.’ Then Mary said, ‘Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.’ Then the angel departed from her. (Lk. 1:26-38).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Can you imagine what Mary would have felt when Gabriel made his appearance?<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">She must have been afraid, and Gabriel speaks some of the most often repeated words in Scripture, “do not be afraid.”</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Mary is then confused by what God’s messenger told her.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Even in the midst of her fear and confusion, Mary says, “Here I am, the servant of the Lord, let it be with me according to your word.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">How many of us are willing to trust in God when we are afraid and confused?<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">How many of us would rather rely on our own strength instead of relying on God’s promise to us.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">On this Tuesday in the last week of Advent, as we prepare for the feast of the Incarnation, Christmas, let us, like Mary say, “Here am I, the Lord’s servant.”</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-13365239879820991302015-12-21T09:06:00.003-08:002015-12-21T09:06:32.314-08:00The World Turned Upside Down
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many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have
been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from
the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after
investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly
account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth
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days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged
to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her
name was Elizabeth. Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly
according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord. But they had no
children, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years. </span></div>
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he was serving as priest before God and his section was on duty, he was chosen
by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of
the Lord and offer incense. Now at the time of the incense-offering, the whole
assembly of the people was praying outside. Then there appeared to him an angel
of the Lord, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah
saw him, he was terrified; and fear overwhelmed him. But the angel said to him,
‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife
Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John. You will have joy
and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the
sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink; even before his
birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit. He will turn many of the people
of Israel to the Lord their God. With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go
before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for
the Lord.’ Zechariah said to the angel, ‘How will I know that this is so? For I
am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.’ The angel replied, ‘I am
Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you
and to bring you this good news. But now, because you did not believe my words,
which will be fulfilled in their time, you will become mute, unable to speak,
until the day these things occur.’ </span></div>
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that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them and
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those days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she remained in
seclusion. She said, ‘This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked favorably
on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.’ (Lk. 1:1-25).</span></div>
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lover of God, and I hope that includes you and me. Luke’s Gospel turns the
world upside down!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women, who were
essentially powerless in that day, play the key parts in the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who are in charge, like Zechariah, the
priest, are silenced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Luke’s Gospel,
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conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ,
at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and
reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">On this Wednesday in the second week of Advent, we are reminded that God is concerned with justice; that God is concerned with the plight of those who are taken advantage of by the greedy who make their money dishonestly and at the expense of others.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">The assigned reading from the Old Testament in today Daily Office is from the prophet Amos who writes, in part:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, saying, ‘When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat.’ Amos 8:4-6.</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-26402028617937735602015-12-08T14:57:00.001-08:002015-12-08T14:57:39.730-08:00The Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, Hospitalized<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">For those of you who may not have heard, our new Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, was taken ill.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">He is currently in the hospital in Virginia awaiting surgery.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">“I would call it brain surgery because that’s the whole goal: to take the pressure off the brain,” Valadka said. “You don’t want to go into the brain. You want to stay out of it. But the brain is right there. You of course have to be very, very careful not to cause any injury.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">Overall, the long-term odds bode well for Bishop Curry’s recovery. About 80 percent of those treated for his condition return to their pre-hematomal level of function, according to John Higgins, a sports cardiologist at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. A month after surgery, the chances of dying from hematoma hover around 5 percent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">Still, if Curry can steer clear of stroke, seizure, and recurrent hematoma for 30 days, he stands a good chance of returning to his usual schedule, which he’s been carving out since his Nov. 1 installation as presiding bishop. Long hours and frequent air travel have for decades been staples of Episcopal primacy. Whether Curry will need to modify those standards in light of his health, time will tell.</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-7388652356650943502015-11-20T13:39:00.000-08:002015-11-20T13:39:06.783-08:00Edmund of East Anglia<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Today the Church remembers the life of a king, Edmund of East Anglia.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">James Kiefer writes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">When the heathen Anglo-Saxons invaded Christian Britain in the 400's, they eventually established seven kingdoms: Essex, Wessex, Sussex (East Saxons, West Saxons, and South Saxons), Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia (three kingdoms of the Angles), and the Jute kingdom of Kent. (The borders between these ancient kingdoms are still borders between regions speaking English with different accents today.) Under the influence of missionaries from the Celts and from continental Europe, these peoples became Christian, only to be faced themselves by a wave of heathen invaders. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Edmund was born about 840, became King of East Anglia in about 855, and in 870 faced a horde of marauding Danes, who moved through the countryside, burning churches and slaughtering villages wholesale. On reaching East Anglia, their leaders confronted Edmund and offered him peace on condition that he would rule as their vassal and forbid the practice of the Christian faith. Edmund refused this last condition, fought, and was captured. He was ill-treated and killed. His burial place is the town of Bury St. Edmunds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: O God of ineffable mercy, who gave grace and fortitude to blessed Edmund the king to triumph over the enemy of his people by nobly dying for your Name: Bestow on us your servants the shield of faith, with which we can withstand the assaults of our ancient enemy; through Jesus Christ our Redeemer, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sunday, 22 November, we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King and Thanksgiving with a traditional feast!</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Please remember to bring something to the gathering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Please remember everyone on our Prayer List, and the people of Paris and all those in the world who suffer at the hands of terrorists or find themselves in the midst of war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Fr. Chester J. Makowski+</span></span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-65026885161233344712015-11-19T15:14:00.003-08:002015-11-19T15:14:34.648-08:00Elizabeth of Hungary: An Example of Selflessness & Generosity to the Vulnerable
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today the Church remembers the
life and ministry of Elizabeth of Hungary (7 July 1207 to 17 November 1231), a
princess who was concerned with the poor and the sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was married at the age of 14 and widowed
at the age of 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After her husband's
death she sent her children away and regained her dowry, using the money to
build a hospital where she herself served the sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During an epidemic, Elizabeth sold all of her
jewels to build a hospital. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why so many hospitals are named after
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth is an example of
selflessness and generosity to those who are vulnerable, the poor and the sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let us pray:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Almighty
God, by your grace your servant Elizabeth of Hungary recognized and honored
Jesus in the poor of this world: Grant that we, following her example, may with
love and gladness serve those in any need or trouble, in the name and for the
sake of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one
God, now and for ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This Sunday is
the Feast of Christ the King and our own Thanksgiving Day celebration at St.
Augustine’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Please remember everyone on our Prayer List, and
especially the people of Paris.</span></div>
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The Rev. Chester J. Makowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900957818861511504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536857398392133915.post-79798053656546203912015-11-03T14:44:00.000-08:002015-11-03T14:44:30.011-08:00Richard Hooker: the Middle Way<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Today the Episcopal Church remembers the life and ministry of Richard Hooker (1554-1600</span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">), priest and theologian, and perhaps one of the greatest Anglican theologians in the Reformation period.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">Hooker called our Anglican tradition the </span><i><span style="color: black;">via media</span></i><span style="color: black;">, Latin for the “middle way,” between Roman Catholics and Protestants, and therefore, a bridge between both, integrating Scripture, tradition and reason. </span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">He argued that the English Puritans claimed too much in proposing that Scripture provided the only source of knowledge (neglecting tradition), including knowledge about all matters of Church order and discipline, and on the other hand, that the Roman Catholic Church claimed too much in believing that the Church had an infallible understanding of faith as given by the Pope.</span><span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Let us pray: O God of truth and peace, who raised up your servant Richard Hooker in a day of bitter controversy to defend with sound reasoning and great middle way, not as a compromise for the sake of peace, but as a comprehension for the sake of truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Fr. Chester J. Makowski+</span></span></div>
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