We’ll be going downtown on Saturday morning to share sandwiches with our homeless brothers and sisters. E-mail Fr. Michael if you’d like to join us.

We serve a God of power. We serve a God that can actually raise the dead; a God who can actually heal; a God that can actually repair the broken things within us and around us. A God who is bigger than we can imagine. And, it is this very God that invites us into His arms. This God comes to save.

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I have heard it said many times that church isn’t what we do on Sunday. And while I agree with St. James that we should be “doers of the word and not hearers only”¹; church is absolutely what we do on Sunday. Sunday & Wednesday — the fellowship, love, care, and community we experience there — are exactly what the world is seeking. It is a great gift we have to offer the world.

So, yes, love and serve your neighbor. Feed the hungry. Visit the prisoners and widows. But, do not neglect the assembly of the faithful. A full sanctuary is as much a gift to the lonely as a sandwich to a man who hungers.

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1. James 1:22 ↩︎

Increase, O God, the spirit of neighborliness among us, that in peril we may uphold one another, in suffering tend to one another, and in homelessness, loneliness, or exile befriend one another. Grant us brave and enduring hearts that we may strengthen one another, until the disciplines and testing of these days are ended, and thou again giveth us peace in our time; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.