Septuagesima Sunday 2020
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC 28105
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?

Today’s readings should cause all of us to stop and ponder. Jesus “wept” over what the Jews had done to Jerusalem and predicted the Temple’s destruction which would come some 40 years later. The Jewish people had been freed from their captivity of sin within Egypt and then led to the Promised Land. And yet…
Last week Bishop Myers spoke to us about reaching out to others as he discussed the parable of the Lost Sheep and he spoke of the Pharisees who were complaining that Jesus “receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.” The Phrarisees complained for they knew not who Jesus was … a loving God who loves all…
Oh what a Great and Loving God we have…. a God that saw His Creation terribly sick, gone astray, lost, and sinking in its own sin. A loving God who decided to save His people; thus sending His Son to cure us of our dreadful disease, called sin; yes, He sent a Son to heal…

Advent 2 2018 Fr. Michael Cawthon In the Collect this morning we read “Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them”… and in the Epistle we hear “Whatsoever things were written aforetime were…

Yes, crown him lord of all indeed; for for The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing… He shall feed me, and shall convert my soul, He shall provide me comfort, and yes, my cup will be full as I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever… (So) … And yes, the Spirit…
Lent IV 2018 Fr. Michael “and there / (our lord and Saviour) he sat with his disciples” In the name of the Father…. In the New Testament the word disciple come from the Greek Word mä-thā-tā’s (ma ta ta –s), and is used in the sense of one who learns, a pupil, of adherents’, one…