Dear friends in Christ,
Today at 10am, Father Daniels joins me to start a new series: The Mystery of Reading Scripture. We’ll look at the idea that Scripture has a meaning that can be distinguished from its husk (the actual words), and we’ll run through a brief history of that idea in the Protestant world. I’m looking forward to having this public conversation with Father Daniels, and we’ll have time for questions also. We expect this series to run through mid-June. You’ll find us (as well as coffee and tea) on the 5th floor of the parish house.
Note, if you can’t make the class on Sunday, I will be repeating it on Monday at 12:40pm on the 2nd floor.
A tragic season is coming. Once a month, from June through October, the “Good Books & Good Talk” seminar will take up tragedies by Wm. Shakespeare. Here is the schedule: “Romeo and Juliet” on June 1, “Hamlet” on July 13, “Othello” on August 3, “Macbeth” on September 14, and “King Lear” on October 19. Each seminar is on a Monday evening from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m., and anyone who has read the play of the month is welcome to the conversation. (If you were at the seminar last week, please note the date for “Hamlet”: it’s July 13. The paper I distributed had a different date. My apologies for any confusion.)
Here’s an Easter thought from the founder of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, Richard Meux Benson (1824-1915): “He does not save us from dying, but through dying He saves us from the state of death.”
Peace, Father Austin
