Epiphany 5: Bishop Michael Hawkins
Why am I still an Anglican? Why bother? Why stick it out? … Why stay in such a compromised, divided, confused Church? The only real answer I can offer today, for myself and for you, is Matthew 13:30
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Between our vision of the Messiah in the Epiphany season, and the spiritual pilgrimage of Lent, we find the peculiar ‘trinity’ of weeks ending in ‘-gesima’.
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The first crucial discovery we must each make in the course of our salvation is that it does indeed involve a real person: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary and Joseph.
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There is this flotilla of little ships or boats out on the sea, or lake, of Galilee. They are making the crossing with this new Rabbi, Jesus, who had been preaching the other day on the kingdom of God. In the middle of the night, a sudden storm whips up…
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We are called to overcome evil with good, to bless those who curse us, to turn the other cheek, to love and feed and care for our enemies… Paul is saying, as much as it depends on you, at the least in your heart, be at peace with everyone, even those who will not be at peace with you.
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As we make our way through the Epiphany season, we are drawn into an ever-sharpening vision of the person of our Saviour, Christ the Lord, and in the course of that progress we also come to a clearer knowledge of our own life and identity as His disciples.
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The Bible witnesses to this responsibility within humanity for its own sadness. And it assigns this responsibility generally. It is not the stars under which we were born, but we ourselves, who are responsible for the mess we and the world are in.
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The season of Epiphany presents us with an unfolding account of our Lord’s character and identity, so that we may come to know more and more clearly the meaning of His Incarnation, the meaning of Emmanuel, of ‘God with us’.
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Three simple words are before us today: Duty, Sacrifice, and Humility… it is these three things that we find in the Gospel portrait of our Lord’s youth… Jesus shows his sense of duty to his heavenly Father, while still giving due obedience to his earthly parents.
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Our collect for today, the special prayer we use with our readings, would have us think about the journey of the wise men as the journey of our life… In our day and culture, pilgrimage is not primarily a religious thing, but we still make them.
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