14th Sunday after Pentecost - 08/25/2024

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Readings

We have been hearing about Jesus the bread of life for the last 5 weeks. All this talk of bread has made me think about what we do at God’s table when the presider blesses and breaks the bread.  [action of raising and breaking bread]

13th Sunday after Pentecost - 08/18/2024

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Readings (Proper 15, Year B)

Let’s just name it.  Today’s gospel sounds like Jesus is advocating cannibalism.  Eat my flesh. Drink my blood. Eeww. 

Dracula would be thrilled.  His Jewish audience, not so much.  His listeners take his words literally.  Jesus, once again showing saintly patience, explains that the invitation to eat his flesh and drink his blood is an invitation to deeper and forever relationship with God.  His life, his flesh, redefines the life we live in this world AND the next.  Without the bread that feeds our souls, our spirits and our sense of God working in and through us will wither and die. 

12th Sunday after Pentecost - 8/11/2024

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Readings

Do you know the word ‘hangry’?  Hungry + angry = hangry.  Sometimes called the hungry grumpies.  And it means one of us, often me, needs to eat SOON!  

A couple of years ago, my friend Nikki’s family, whose kids are a few years older than mine, coined the word dungry.  Dungry for dumb hungry. Dungry describes our inclination to make dumb decisions or forget common sense when hangry.

We’ve all done it.  Missed a meal because there wasn’t food available, or because we were distracted, or didn’t have time.  And then we really do feel off.  Maybe we have a headache, or the low rumble in our stomach turns to nausea.  We may not recognize our physical symptoms as hunger, even as they manifest themselves in how we think and act.