We can’t take it for granted that Jesus will be where we want to go, for his ways often go contrary to ours and our business is to follow him.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons from December 2012
The particularity of Jesus’s identity scandalises our tribal sensibilities, but our attempts to erase such details in favour of a more “universal” truth inevitably fail to convey the good news of God with us.
Like Mary, we are called to participate in God’s recreation and blessing of the world, and when we comprehend that call, we will, like Mary, explode with joy.
John calls us beyond insurance policy religion, but Jesus calls us still further into participation in God’s radical generosity to all the world.
God approaches us in an eager desire for communion, so our task is not to strive for communion, but simply to open ourselves to receive it.
Faced with the decline and disintegration of the Church, we are called to offer ourselves to God as the new branch who faithfully carry God’s love and mercy into a new era.