Sanación en Comunidad / Healing in Community 30 Sept 2012 (Proper 21B)
Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Saints’, Oxnard Proper 21B, 2012 (Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22; Ps 124; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50) It is Wednesday night. Es miércoles, por la noche. Perhaps it is bright out still, with yellow strips of sunlight still licking in at the Virgin’s glass. Or perhaps it is darkening now. Posiblemente esta oscureciendo con un poco del aire fresco del otoño. Some leaves may have pushed their way in with the people. Es más o menos cinco y media, 5:30, and we gather. Juntamos para escuchar a las sagradas escrituras. We gather to listen to scripture, perhaps to sing a song. Juntamos para cantar la canción de los santos entre nosotros y los que han pasado a estar con Dios. We sing of the saints living and dead. Juntamos, empujados por la brisa como hojas de otoño desde las esquinas privadas de nuestras vidas. We gather, seemingly pushed from the private corners of our lives back to this place—one from a house, another from a school,