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Offering Thanks Even in a Pandemic

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For me, this year as we have been working our way through the Epistles, I have been connecting with them in a new way. I am connecting with Paul in a new way. The past month or so we have been working our way through Paul’s letter to the Phillipians, and today we move on to Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians. We will be here about a month, we’ll take one week off for All Saints Sunday, but over the next month or so we are going to make our way through Paul’s letter to this community, the church of the Thessalonians.

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Forward in Faith Together

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“My brothers and sisters whom I love and I long for.” I resonate like never before with these words of St. Paul that we just heard. My brothers and sisters, my siblings in Christ, you the people of St. Mary’s whom I love and I long for, I miss you. I miss being together, in person, at the church, crowded together, singing hymns, greeting one another with the sign of the peace, kneeling side by side to receive the Sacrament. I miss you.

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For the Sake of Others: Considering the Common Good

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Paul says, “Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.” This passage, of course, is so consistent with the Gospels. It is so consistent with Jesus’s teachings on loving your neighbors as yourself, his teachings in the Beatitudes, his teachings in washing the Disciples’ feet. It resonates with his very life. Paul goes on in this passage to say that looking not to your own interests, but to the interests of others is the mind of Christ.

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Gathering Together in the Time of Covid

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“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.” This passage is a favorite of mine. In our world that values bigger and better, it reminds me that bigger and better is not what is most important to God. You do not need to be with a huge crowd to encounter God. Just a couple of people, faithfully gathered, is sufficient. “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”

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