A Message

Alleluia, Christ is Risen! Rejoice heavenly choir, Rejoice you children of God, for Death has been defeated and Life is victorious. In our modern world the idea of resurrection can be met with one of two stances.  We can try to accept it with a force of will that ignores what we know about the laws of physics. Or we can reject it wondering if it “really happened.” But there is a third way. We Episcopalians love third ways.  This third way is to treat the Easter story as a story about death and states like unto death, and how life is never defeated.  Whatever doubts we might hold about what really happened, we can embrace the idea that death is not the last word.  

Death, according to Paul, is the wages of Sin.  And what is Sin.  It is a breaking of the moral law, but that definition can be a stumbling block for some. Sin is really the rejection of life. Sin is the flight from life.  Sin is the flight from one another.  Sin isolates.  Sin demeans.  Sin rejects the dignity and nobility of those we encounter and ourselves.  What are those actions that reject life, that isolate, that demean, that reject the dignity and nobility of others and ourselves in your own life?  The forgiveness and healing of Sin, then, leads to community and solidarity and wholeness.  That is resurrection.  We rise together from death when we share our lives with each other; when we open ourselves to the suffering of one another; when we realize that love is not a fleeting feeling but a commitment to justice, mercy, and humility in service to the world.    
Alleluia!
Fr. Rick






Rev. Rick

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