Sermons

The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, The Holy Eucharist, by the Reverend James Ross Smith

“Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood did not reveal that to you but my father in heaven.”

Today I would like to struggle with you to try to make sense of what it means for us to see—sometimes to see clearly in moments of vision, clarity and insight; and sometimes to try to see, because that’s all we’re able to do, in moments of darkness, uncertainty; and confusion; and sometimes to see paradoxically, upside-down, foolishly, but nonetheless truly: God on the cross, life in the midst of death, dying and yet rising.
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