Sunday's Readings

At the urging of Eli, Samuel returns to his rest ready to hear, if it may be, the voice of the Lord.

Love has a source, an object, a sharing, even in the formal ceremony of tea and Latin and Eucharist.

The Spirit of God is breath upon the slain, life from the dead, dry bones connected by sinew, flesh upon bone, skin over flesh, and breath from the mouth of God to the lungs of humanity.

Every Christian is chosen, called, summoned to a vocation and moment that no other person can fill.

The Holy Spirit inspires new speech and exultation, songs and marvels, victory and vindication, joy breaking forth in all the earth.

Praise may be the unconscious Song of Creation, intoned by the creative will of God, his sustaining love, the redeeming work of his attention and atonement for the agony of all beings.

Jesus becomes what we are and lays down his life to pay our debt and claim our hearts.

Christianity is not a search for the guilty, but is God’s gift of salvation through his Son.

Is not faith a form of seeing, a way of touching, and a kind of deep hearing?

Life begins at this moment, the moment when Christ is known and loved as the one who has conquered death.