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General Convention

Monday, May 03, 2010

Bishop Maze Celebrates the Eucharist at All Saints' after "The Journey "In"

"created he them"


Yesterday morning in Rector's Forum we had a very soulful discussion on immigrates and our church, All Saints', and how we should respond as Christians and a church to aliens in the land.
EFM was better than usual also. The reflection was basically on John 3:17, but not quite as the old hymn puts it "Jesus paid it all".
It was a bit of synchronicity I suppose that Charlie started us with Worship by reading from a book of old Puritan prayers. The one we prayed seemed a bit Celtic.
It kept invoking the 3 and different aspects of the Trinity. The synchronicity was in Julie's Reflection.
Her statement was to me a paraphrase of this,

"
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."


That passage used to bother me a lot until I realized that God foreknew all of us.
Since we have free will it still is up to us to accept what was done for us or not and if we don't then it is God who will decide what happens.

Angi our mentor said the Reflection showed Julie was a little Calvinistic. I'm pretty sure she was joking.

Charlie ended the session with another good prayer from the Puritan book of prayer, but since I'd already written the first sentence of our usual round robin of writing the ending prayer together I was asked to read it anyway.

The group decided it was good on its own.


O Divine Majesty, Thank you for breathing your Spirit into us and making us more than just your image. In Jesus, your Son, our Lord we pray. Amen

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