Fully Alive in God

(from Pixadilly by George Brown: http://www.pixadilly.com/archives/7559) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (Nehemías 8:1–3, 5–6, 8–10; Salmo 19; 1 Corintios 12:12–31ª; San Lucas 4:14–21) Let me ask you a question. What do we see in the Cross?  ¿Que vemos en la cruz? One commentator pointed out something about a verse earlier in the First letter to the Corinthians than we read today. 1 Corintios 1:25 habla de “lo que en Dios parece debilidad” pero de hecho habla de “la cosa débil de Dios”—es decir—la cruz. 1 Corinthians 1:25 speaks of not the weakness of God but the “weak thing of God”- which is the cross. And this same commentator pointed out that if the cross is the weak thing of God, it was exactly in God’s weakness on the cross that we saw God’s strongest power. La crucifixión nos mostr ó en la plenitud el poder divino. [1]   God’s power is made manifest in supposed weakness. El poder de Dios se manifiesta en la debilidad. Asi que vemos a Dios mejo...

(discerninghearts.com) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Isaiah 43:1–7; Ps. 29; Acts 8:14–17; St. Luke 3:15–17, 21–22) Veni Sancte Spiritus… Veni Sancte Spiritus… Come, Holy Spirit… I remember the echo of these haunting words moving through my body, vibrating through the wood near the altar of the cathedral, on which I was lying prostrate. Although my posture and that of my peers was one of great humility, a recognition of the wondrous and fearful action that was about to occur, our ordination into the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, to be honest in that moment I felt an almost mystical sense of being held in the Spirit. I felt that mass of worshippers chanting, invoking the Spirit’s presence, beseeching that same Spirit to bless our ministries, to work in and through us as priests. I could have stayed there forever, but instead I stood up, those six years ago, because there was something to be done, and it has been an amazing journey ever since, and even bef...

(discerninghearts.com) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Isaías 43:1–7; Salmo 29; Hechos 8:14–17; San Lucas 3:15–17, 21–22) Veni Sancte Spiritus… Veni Sancte Spiritus… Ven, Espíritu Santo… Recuerdo como estas palabras en latín resonaban y vibraban en mi cuerpo mientras me postraba en el piso de madera cerca del altar del catedral. Aunque mi postura y la de mis colegas fue uno de gran humildad, un reconocimiento de la acción asombrosa y temerosa que iba a ocurrir, nuestra ordenación al sacerdocio de la Iglesia Episcopal, para ser bien honesta en ese instante sentí más un sentido casi místico de estar mantenido en oración en el Espíritu. In that moment of my ordination, lying face down on the floor of the cathedral, I felt more awe than humility, although sometimes they are the same thing. Sentí como la muchedumbre cantaba, y como invocaba la presencia del Espíritu, suplicando que ese mismo Espíritu bendijera a nuestros ministerios. Que trabajara en nosotros como s...

(Christmas Star, free wallpaper site) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Isaías 60:1–6; Salmo 72:1–7, 10–14; Efesios 3:1–12; San Mateo 2:1–12) Esta Navidad, tuve una educación teológica muy profunda. Possibly some of you also participated in this. The Star Wars seminary course. Como Pastora Alene no había visto ninguna de las películas, los vimos juntas a las películas viejas antes de ver la nueva y vi muchas cosas muy teológicas dentro de ellas. Since Pastor Alene had never watched the filmed, we needed to catch up with the old Star Wars movies first—the original ones, not the prequels, and then we watched the new film. Hay un tema muy básico pero profundo en las películas de Star Wars —el tema de la lucha entre la luz y la oscuridad. We see very clearly the fight between the light and the dark in the Star Wars movies. We are reminded of one of our Christmas passages: The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. De hecho, la luz si tiene...