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Healing miracles
Let’s look for the good news, though. Jesus supports our efforts toward healing, whether they be grand gestures or creeping, shuffling steps through the crowd. Jesus affirms our faith that things can be better, and that he will help make it so. For the sake of Jesus, we are gathered not as individuals wounded by violence, but as a community pulling together to heal one another’s hurts, to pray and to salve with balm the troubled spirit. Continue reading
Posted in gun violence, homily, lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged community healing, gun violence, Mark 5:21-43, Psalm 130, Year B Proper 8
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more than watchmen for the morning
In the silence before the dawn,
in the fearful shadows that embalm
the edges of sleep, each sound
is amplified: Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged absence, God, prayer, Psalm 130
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