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Proper 23 B + the windows of heaven + 10.13.24

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Psalm 22:1-15; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 ) Good morning. Today’s scriptures remind me that there is more here than meets the eye. Job suffers greatly, and yet he actually gets to talk with God! In addition, here is the rich young man. We see him interact with Jesus, asking how to inherit eternal life? He has followed the commandments from his youth. And Jesus, looking at him, loves him and says, sell everything, give it to the poor, have treasure in heaven, and follow me. I don’t know about you, but I think that the man and oftentimes many readers of this scripture get focused on the first part. Selling everything. It is a tall order. We begin to wonder- would we need to do that too? Or is this command only for the young man? I tend to think that Jesus would give each of us a different command based on whatever it is that separates us from God. Since the young man thought he was only blessed because of his stuf
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Propio 23 B + Ventanas del cielo + 10.13.24

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Salmo 22:1-15; Hebreos 4:12-16; Marcos 10:17-31 ) Buenos días. Las escrituras de hoy me recuerdan que hay más de lo que se ve fácilmente. Job sufre mucho, pero ¡habla directamente con Dios! En adición, tenemos este hombre joven y rico. Lo vemos interaccionar con Jesús. Dice: “, ¿qué debo hacer para alcanzar la vida eterna?” Ha seguido los mandamientos desde su juventud. Y Jesús lo mira con amor, y dice, “Una cosa te falta: anda, vende todo lo que tienes y dáselo a los pobres. Así tendrás riqueza en el cielo. Luego ven y sígueme.” No sé de ustedes, pero muchas veces yo pienso que nos enfoquemos mucho en la primera parte de esto. En vender todo. No es algo sencillo. ¿Nos empezamos a preguntar- tenemos que hacer esto nosotros? ¿O este mandamiento es solo para este hombre rico? Pienso yo que tal vez Jesús tendría otro reto para cada uno de nosotros basado en lo que nos separa de Dios. Como el hombre rico pensó que sus r
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Propio/Proper 22 B + Relationships / Relaciones + 10.6.24

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (Job 1:1; 2:1–10; Salmo/Ps. 26; Hebreos/Hebrews 1:1–4; 2:5–12; San Marcos/ Mark 10:2–16) Good morning! Buenos días. The texts for today cover a lot of different areas. They may even make us feel uncomfortable as we feel challenged, but they also speak of God’s majesty and the importance of relationships, with God and with people. Los textos de hoy cubren varios temas. Estos temas hasta nos pueden hacer sentir incomodos porque presentan desafíos, pero también hablan de la majestad de Dios y la importancia de relaciones – nuestra relación con Dios y las relaciones que tenemos el uno con el otro. Let us start very early on with Job. Job is a story that began to be formed before the time of Abraham, or is talking about the time before the Abrahamic faiths, and the way that people tried to understand what God was doing in the world, how bad things could happen to good people, but also how we could, as people, have a relationship with the
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Proper21BAcceptingourownwounds29sept24

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  Accepting our own and other’s wounds Mark 9: 38-50   St Michael’s, Isla Vista / All Saints Oxnard The Rev. Alene Campbell-Langdell; MCL additions   May I just start this morning by acknowledging that our Gospel reading is complex.   The images are startling (horrifying?) and the metaphors come almost too quickly to catch.   What is clear is that something serious is going on between Jesus and his disciples, and Jesus is using every means possible, including some pretty harsh language, to try to course correct.   To even begin to understand this passage, we need to back up to last week’s reading from Mark.   In that reading, the disciples are arguing with each other about who is the greatest and best disciple.   In response, Jesus gets a little kid, some commentators say “toddler,” and holds this child in his arms during the rest of the conversation.    The other part of the scene to keep in mind is that Jesus has just told his disciples for the second time that he is hea
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Proper21+Aceptarlasheridas+9.29.24

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  Aceptar las heridas propias y las de los demás Marcos 9:38-50 St Michael’s IV/ All Santos Oxnard La Revda. Alene Campbell-Langdell, trad. MCL+ Voy a iniciar esta mañana reconociendo que la lectura del evangelio lleva muchas complejidades. Los imagines están sorprendentes, casi de horror, y las metáforas son múltiples y difíciles de distinguir. Lo que sigue claro es que se trata de algo serio entre Jesús y sus discípulos, y Jesús usa cada cosa posible, incluso lenguaje muy difícil, para corregir su rumbo. Solo para empezar a entender este pasaje, tenemos que retroceder a la lectura de la semana pasada en el evangelio de San Marcos. En esa lectura, los discípulos se discuten entre si sobre quien es el mejor. En respuesta, Jesús toma un niño pequeño, y levanta ese niño en sus brazos durante el resto de la conversación. La otra parte de esta escena, si se recuerden, es que Jesús apenas ha compartido por segunda vez que va a Jerusalén, donde lo van a matar. Tal vez recuerden que
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Proper 20 B + Generosity of Spirit + 9.22.24

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  M.Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Proverbs 31:10-31; Psalm 1; James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9:30-37 ) Good morning! In Mark, Jesus says: “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”  As many of you know, Pastor Alene and I just had the blessing of spending a week traveling in Alaska, with a few days on either end in Vancouver, BC and Eugene, OR. While in Ketchikan, the Salmon Capital of the World, we visited the local cultural center. Ketchikan has a beautiful downtown with a street that is built over a creek in which you can see the salmon swim and the seals hunt them. At the cultural center we learned about the local Tlingit and other first nations’ traditions around totem poles, handmade baskets and other woven goods, and about the tradition of the potlach. Potlach means “give away” and is not all about a shared food experience like our modern mainstream US tradition of a “pot-luck.” Alene and I read that in traditional Tlingit culture, potlach
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Propio 20 B + Generosidad de espiritu + 9.22.24

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard Proverbios 31:10–31; Salmo 1; Santiago 3:13–4:3, 7–8ª; San Marcos 9:30–37) ¡Buenos días! En San Marcos, dice Jesús: “Si alguien quiere ser el primero, deberá ser el último de todos, y servirlos a todos.” Como muchos saben, Pastora Alene y yo fuimos a Alaska las dos semanas pasadas. Mientras que estábamos en Ketchikan, el capital del mundo para el salmón, visitamos a un museo de la cultura pasada y presente de la gente indígena de esa área. En el centro cultural, aprendimos de su artesanía, de los tótems, y de la práctica del potlach. Pensando en la idea Norteamérica de un “ pot-luck ,” o una comida compartida, pensé en esto, pero un potlach va mucho más allá. En vez de todos compartir un plato, el concepto es que una familia lo da y como un símbolo de su honor en la sociedad, tratan de donar todo lo que tienen a la comunidad, en particular a las otras familias que representan diferentes clanes. No solo comparten de sus artesanías, pe
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