What do a twenty six year-old Pentecostal and two children raised outside of religion have in common that would attract them to a high mass? I asked your son what he thought, and he thought it was a lack of asthetics and tradition, but I’m not so sure that’s all of it, and now we’re completely stumped. I was curious to know what you thought?
Category: General
Advent Meditation
The Bible is in many ways an alien document. One of the ways in which it appears most alien to many contemporary people is its sense of time. The New Testament in particular can seem bizarre with its apocalyptic and eschatological sense of time. Time is short in the Bible. The world of the supernatural is about to break in upon the natural. The Lord is about to return in power and glory with his angels. At any moment shall come the final cataclysm and the final separation of the righteous from the unrighteous. The whole message of Jesus and the New Testament is “repent, the Kingdom is at hand. Turn to God and accept his mercy and grace while there is yet time, while he delays the final judgment. Act now before it is too late.” Paul urges the members of the church in Corinth, a place notorious for immorality, to hold fast so they shall be found without blame on the day of His coming, which must be nigh.
The Very Rev. Dr. Leander S. Harding 