Today we encounter a joyful manifestation of God’s abundant love shared as the ‘Dearly beloved: who have come together in the presence of God’, have gathered to witness a couple’s marriage, and to feast with family and friends. Today’s gospel reading is a familiar story, and one to which the Celebrant always refers as they […]
Sermon Topic: Wedding at Cana
Unexpected Epiphanies
One does not have to have the keenest powers of observation to notice that Christians are a quarrelsome bunch. We argue over everything there is to argue about, from the profoundly serious to the embarrassingly trivial; we argue about things speculative and things prosaic; the sacred and the profane. To paraphrase Ecclesiastes, Of the making […]
Look for stars and mountains!
The glory of God made manifest.
From the earliest of days the feast of the Epiphany has been marked by three wonderful stories that speak to us of the revelation or manifestation of God’s glory which is the very meaning of the word “epiphany.” We have heard the story of the wise men, the magi, searching for the King of the […]
Signs of Glory
Our Old Testament lesson, today, relates to the Gospel story but it is helpful to look underneath the text and discover the subtleties of the prophecy. The image of marriage is used time and time again in the Old Testament to describe the covenant relationship between God and his chosen people. Through it, God’s glory […]
Christ's Three Epiphanies to Us
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Like the Procession we do on Advent Sunday, this first Sunday after the Epiphany is a summary of the season of Christ’s epiphanies, (or manifestations, or revelations) of his Person. We focus on three which are celebrated in Tradition and […]
Epiphany Pilgrims
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. An epiphany is a manifestation, in today’s case a manifestation of Christ’s glory. The Church’s faith is one of many epiphanies, reaching back to the beginning of ancient Israel, when the Lord revealed himself to Moses and to the […]
The Joy of the Divine Son
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