Waking the… Bereaved – A Sermon
This is your gift and your call. The women at the tomb on Easter Day were apostles to the disciples. You are the bearers of Good News to the bereaved.
This is your gift and your call. The women at the tomb on Easter Day were apostles to the disciples. You are the bearers of Good News to the bereaved.
In the end it’s not about ‘wars and rumours of war’ nor is it about ‘one person being taken and the other left’. It is about keeping our eyes on Jesus.
It is about living Advent lives, watching and waiting and working for the Return of the King.
We have a King who forgives – we are called to be a people who forgive.
We have a King who saves – we are called to be a people who offer salvation.
We have a King who is innocent – we are called to be a people who, even imperfectly…aim to live lives of purity.
We have a King who remembers – we are called to be a people who will not leave anyone out of the arms of love stretched out on the Cross.
Whenever we put our own cares to one side and carry the weight of another’s grief we imitate Jesus who leads us through death to the life after life
To live ‘Sine Proprio’ without possessions is about more than the ‘stuff’ withe which we surround our lives. It is a call to ‘Let Go and Let God’. Only as we do this can life be re-born.
The story of Thomas teaches us that, ‘It is doubt that is the beginning of real faith.’
The centre of the gospel is the call to serve others
Often we hinder the growth of God’s reign and become the fruitless faithful inhabiting dustbowl churches. How can we grow good?
It is only as we offer ourselves as ‘food’ for others that we truly become The Body of Christ