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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may strive to secure for all your children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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A Sermon by
Fr. Mead
✛
Three Signs for All Time
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
In between Christmastide and Lent falls Epiphany Season, a time when the Church reflects on the various epiphanies, or manifestations, or revelations, of Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ, the Son of God. Today’s special service brings together three epiphanies which the Church for centuries has associated as signs, wonders and miracles disclosing the identity of our Lord. And each reaches out beyond its narrative towards us here and now. They are not locked away in fable or history.
1) The magi, the wise men from the east, are not Jews. They are Gentiles. They follow Gentile notions, arts and sciences, to seek out the infant King of the Jews. So their methods are affirmed but go only so far – they arrive at Jerusalem, where they need and receive Biblical assistance, the Revealed Word of God Written, which directs them (and Herod’s murderous intentions as well) to the City of David, Bethlehem, to worship Christ.
2) Christ’s Baptism is a Self-Disclosure to Jesus of his Sonship by the Father and the Holy Spirit. “Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.” This is the disclosure of a relationship between God and man – a relationship long lost in an aboriginal fall and now regained in the Person of Jesus Christ, a relationship on offer to us by adoption and grace.
3) Jesus’ first miracle, at his mother’s intercession at a wedding in Cana in Galilee, manifests his glory. At first only the servants at the wedding know about the vast quantity of water now become wine, better wine than that which ran out. But Jesus’ disciples, who attended the wedding as well, joined his mother: they saw his glory and believed in him. It truly is a sign for all time. Jesus supplied a serious domestic deficit, as he will do in every home where he is invited.
Each of these epiphanies remains the living Word of God, reaching out to those who are prepared to see them. 1) They show how we ourselves make the journey to Christ. 2) They show Jesus’ direct self-disclosure and the offer to those who receive him and believe in his name of a genuine filial relationship with God. 3) They show that we have a great Friend in the heavens who supplies us with grace to help in time of need.
Each of us is here because of something that has happened to us, something we have seen or heard, something we’ve found. It helps our sense of this if know how truly needy we really are – appearances aside – this is the first great principle of our pilgrimage into Christ; it is literally Christ’s first beatitude: Blessed are the poor in spirit; theirs is the kingdom of heaven. How blest are they who know their need of God!
As my wife and I were saying goodbye to an old friend in Puerto Rico just the other day, we said we’d see her and her husband again next year. And then – she has had more than a few brushes with the changes and chances of this mortal life – her smile turned serious as she said, “If God wills.” Yes indeed. Every moment, we agreed, everything can change with the blink of an eye.
How glorious it is that we are here, that we have seen Jesus Christ, and that this epiphany of God has drawn us here today, to hear the Gospels read, to sing God’s praises, to hear sublime music ancient and modern. As the carol, “Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar” bids us, let us offer our hearts. Now is the time. The Lord hath manifested forth his glory: O come, let us adore him.
