In today's gospel Jesus reads from the scroll of Isaiah, telling us he's the anointed one, the one sent to deliver God's good news to the poor. We too are anointed--sealed in baptism by the power of the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ's own, forever. We gather here week after week, dipping our fingers in the blessed water of baptism and gathering around the table, putting our hand out for a bite of the Body. We leave here, not as individuals, but as members of the same body, unified in the name of Christ, enlivened by the Holy Spirit, sent to proclaim God's good news to the poor. This, Martin Luther King reminds us, is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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