December 26, 2014
Saint Stephen's Day
Dear Friends,
How was your Christmas Day? I hope you had time for worship with your church community, and the opportunity to gather with family and friends to share a meal and fellowship as well.
Today the blessed invitation and good work continue. As Meister Eckhart said: unless Christ is born in me it matters little whether he was born in a stable or in a palace.
That 'being born in us' is the work of God's grace in us, of our openness to what God wills to do in and through us today and every day. Saint Stephen, the first martyr, whose faith and sacrifice we celebrate this 26th of December, invites us to follow. These two days following one another, the birth of the savior and the death of his disciple, remind us powerfully that to be enitrely alive is to be willing to offer our lives entirely, to pour ourselves out in love as God does in Jesus Christ.
This is the continuing invitation and good work. And today is the day.
John McGinty+
Dean, Mercer School of Theology
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
Saint Stephen's Day
Dear Friends,
How was your Christmas Day? I hope you had time for worship with your church community, and the opportunity to gather with family and friends to share a meal and fellowship as well.
Today the blessed invitation and good work continue. As Meister Eckhart said: unless Christ is born in me it matters little whether he was born in a stable or in a palace.
That 'being born in us' is the work of God's grace in us, of our openness to what God wills to do in and through us today and every day. Saint Stephen, the first martyr, whose faith and sacrifice we celebrate this 26th of December, invites us to follow. These two days following one another, the birth of the savior and the death of his disciple, remind us powerfully that to be enitrely alive is to be willing to offer our lives entirely, to pour ourselves out in love as God does in Jesus Christ.
This is the continuing invitation and good work. And today is the day.
John McGinty+
Dean, Mercer School of Theology
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
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