Colourful Dreamer

This sermon can be listened to here   Gate Pa – Year C 4 th Sunday of Epiphany 2021, Readings: Psalm                          Psalm: 71:1-6 First Reading:             Jeremiah 1:4-10 Second Reading:        1 Cor 13:1-13                           Gospel:                        Luke 4:21-30 What I want to say: For some who follow the C of E calendar, Wednesday marks the end of the 40 days of the Christmas-Epiphany season –> what is this season about? -          revelation who Jesus is -          response to that? why I stuck with readings for 4 th Sunday rather than presentation readings -          really like Jeremiah – got smacked in mouth by coal and became prophet to kind of like how we have been smacked in the mouth by Covid -> like Jeremiah we are called -          response of people who knew him to what Jesus has taught last week -          famous passage from 1 Cor 13 – about hard crunchy love – not a feeling but way to act What does all thi

There is a lot to squeeze into this week’s theme. Firstly, we are marking in a small way the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple ; a principle feast in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican Churches. It falls on this Wednesday, 2 February, 40 days after Christmas, and marks the end of the Christmas season. It remembers Jesus being presented at the Temple as the law required of a first son, and we hear the response of Simeon (The Song of Simeon or Nunc Dimittis) and Anna.   It is more commonly known as "Candlemas” when the candles for the new year are blessed, and the used stubs were distributed to the faithful for use in the home. This week we are using the readings for Epiphany 4. And we read them going into RED with omicron having breached the border and joining our summer. I read them with a sense of dreadful anticipation and uncertainty about what the next few weeks might hold for us, and with a sense of longing to be free of this virus. Longing is weaved all t