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View Video Grace Episcopal Church Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Second Sunday in Lent (C) Genesis 15.1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27.10-18 Philippians 3.17-4.1 ...

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View Video Grace Episcopal Church Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany (C) Gen. 45.3—11, 15 Ps. 37.1—12, 41—42 ...

View Video Grace Episcopal Church Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (C) Jer. 17.5-10 Psalm 1 1 Corinthians ...

View Video Grace Episcopal Church Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany (C) Isaiah 6.1-13 Psalm 138 1 Corinthians ...

View Video Grace Episcopal Church Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Second Sunday of Advent (C) Baruch 5.1 The Song of Zechariah ...

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Grace Abounds Speaking with Sr Barbara Jean about spiritual languages

Grace Episcopal Church Sheboygan, Wisconsin The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany (A) Leviticus 19.1-2, 9-18 Psalm 119.33-40 1 Cor. 3.10-11, 16-23 Matthew 5.38-48   May the Lord be in my mind, on my lips, and in my heart, that I may rightly and truly proclaim His holy Word. Amen.   “You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” (Lev. 19.2). “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect” (Mtt. 5.48). I don’t know about you, but when I listen to those two sentences, one pronounced by Moses for the Lord, and one addressed by Jesus directly, I start to get a little nervous. I mean, after all, how can I ever hope to even approach God’s perfection? Can I hope to be holy? I can take a little comfort in the fact that in each case the pronoun “you” is plural–that God is speaking to Israel and to the Church as His covenanted people–but the fact remains that I’m one of those people. Does this mean that I am to be individually holy and perfect, or that the Church as a whole is, and my own spiritual state will be credited or debited against the spiritual states of every other person who stands within covenant with God? To which the answer is “Yes”. Now that we’ve cleared that up, I’ll sit down! In all seriousness, I will come back to the “yes, and” answer to the questions, but to do that I first want to recall a story. It was related to me by a retired Army officer I knew while living in England. George, as I will call him, had entered the Army as an enlisted conscript during WWII, serving as an infantryman in Burma. He was an able and lucky soldier, and rose to the rank of sergeant within two years (helped along, no doubt, by receiving the Military Medal for bravery). When the war was over he was billeted in what is now Bangladesh, but was then part of British India. India would soon be independent, and the British were forming a new officer corps, for the first time to include native peoples. And so George found himself in a training section comprised of a Gurkha, a high caste Brahmin, a Sikh, a Scotsman, and himself. They were put before an Officer Selection Board, and after two days of written exams they faced three days of practical field exercises under the close scrutiny of four senior British officers. These exercises involved land navigation, artillery ranging, drilling enlisted recruits, field encampment, and the like. On the last day, as they were making the run of an obstacle course, the monsoon arrived. It rained so hard you could barely see the man standing three feet in front of you. It rained so hard you were up to your knees in water, and since you couldn’t see the ground under the water you were constantly falling, while trying to hold a weapon ...

Grace Abounds Speaking with Sr Barbara Jean about spiritual languages

Grace Abounds Speaking with Sr Barbara Jean about spiritual languages