February 7, 2010 by modernepistle. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says. 8221; If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. When we feel that we cannot forgive some one who has sinned against us, let us look at ourselves; when YOU sin against God and ask for His grace and great mercy is God not quick to forgive you? Everyday we as a peopl.

But for strength and renewal. Advent in a time of lament. Advent is a time of waiting . Waiting for the Christ to come. A world broken by gun violence, mass shootings,. A world marred by racism on every level and deadly violence leveled against black bodies, brown bodies, where black lives seem not to matter much. A world bitterly divided between politics of the right and the left,. A world where hate crimes against those on the margins appear to be increasing.

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Friday, March 23, 2012. He struggles there upon the cool, damp earth. A newborn child of a rustic hearth. Squirming around as to protest his birth. He hisses a sound like a wounded bird. Brighter red than sun-baked skin. Will some sage write his story with poetic pen. This heretic cast from the flock for some grave sin? Alas he is unnoticed among the timber. Upon the forest floor this outcast member. His birth, his life, his death no one will remember.