This Week at St. Patrick's May 25, 2011

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"Rapture or Mission" - The Rev. Dr. Kurt Gerhard, May 22, 2011

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John 14.1-14

Glad to see you here, today. We should take roll to account for those select few who might have been taken in last night’s rapture. I’m assuming their absence is for other reasons, but I wouldn’t want to assume. If the chosen among us have been teleported to the heavenly banquet, I guess we are here to witness the decline of this plane of existence. Now being an optimist, that decline will, no doubt, be interesting. I can’t claim to have studied the Biblical foundation and logic for the rapture claim. Contrary opinions were found in most editorial pages including the Washington Post. Without studying the theories I am unsure if the 6pm prediction meant that the rapture would happen in hourly waves as the earth made its 24-hour rotation? Or if it would be correlated with Greenwich Mean Time?

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"On the road to Emmaus" - The Rev. Dr. Kurt Gerhard, May 8, 2011

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Luke 24.13-35

Christ on the Road to Emmaus
Anonymous 18th Century American

Most days, I take the same path to and from work; when I need food, I visit the same grocery store; and when I want to leave my building, I walk down the same hallway to the same elevator lobby. It is not unusual for me to attend worship services on Sunday and I also, quite commonly, eat breakfast at the same table. Most people can claim ordinariness in where they go, how they get there, and what they do once there. Having watched the tendencies of parishioners here at St. Patrick’s, I realize that many of you sit in the same general area of this worship space, possibly even the same chair, every week.  I have found this to be consistent in every Episcopal congregation that I have attended regularly and I am sure it is the case for others, as well. Everyone, to some extent, feels comfortable doing regular things and finds a calm resolve in avoiding the risk of everyday life by escaping to something known, where we can put ourselves into cruise control.

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