Fully Alive in God

(https://yourcoachingbrain.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/pause-1.jpg) Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (Jeremías 33:14-16, Salmo 25:1-9, 1º Tesalonicenses 3:9-13, San Lucas 21:25-36) En aquel tiempo Judá estará a salvo y Jerusalén vivirá segura. Judá estará a salvo y Jerusalén vivirá segura. (Jeremías 33:16ª) Anhelamos sentir salvo y seguro ahora, ¿No es cierto? Hay tantas cosas que han estado pasando en el mundo. Justo durante este tiempo festivo, otro ataque, ahora en Colorado en una clínica para la salud de las mujeres. Señor, ten misericordia. Hemos escuchado más de otro joven negro matado en Chicago. Cristo, ten misericordia. Y los defensores del medioambiente dicen que los niveles de dióxido de carbono están peligrosamente altos, más que 400 partes por millón, que significa que nuestro aire puede estar convirtiendo en algo toxico a nosotros. Señor, ten misericordia. Pero nosotros estamos cansados. Hay una fatiga porque hemos recibido demasiadas malas ...

(stmaryny.org) M.Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (2 Samuel 23:1–7; Psalm 132:1–13, (14–19); Revelation 1:4b–8; John 18:33–37) You're my friend and You are my brother Even though You are a king I love You more than any other So much more than anything   (From: “As the Deer”) This Sunday we mark the feast of Christ the King, the end of the liturgical year. In our seminary chapel we had a stained glass window of a Christ the King image and I must admit that at times I found it relatively uninspiring. I mean, it just seemed so distant, the image of a distant King on a throne. Not my Jesus. Not my friend. Not my brother. Although the image of Jesus as King goes way back, the truth is that the celebration of Christ the King is a relatively new phenomenon. In 1925 Pope Pius XI instated it, [1] in part as a response to the totalitarian regimes that were starting to come up around the world. Our church accepted this feast shortly thereafter.  A rem...

(stmaryny.org) M.Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (2 Samuel 23:1–7; Salmo 132:1–13, (14–19); Revelación 1:4b–8; San Juan 18:33–37) En la misa en ingl é s hoy cantamos una canción que dijo: “You're my friend and You are my brother Even though You are a king I love You more than any other So much more than anything   (From: ‘As the Deer’).” Es decir: “Tu eres mi amigo y tú eres mi hermano Aunque seas un rey. Yo te amo más que cualquier otro Más que cualquiera cosa en el mundo.” Este domingo es el festival de Cristo Rey, y marca el fin del a ñ o litúrgico. En la capilla de nuestro seminario tuvimos un vitral con una imagen de Cristo Rey y tengo de confesar a Uds. que a veces lo encontr é poco estimulante. Quiero decir que pareci ó una imagen tan distante, tan removida de nuestra existencia. Un rey en un trono no fue mi Jesús. No fue mi amigo ni mi hermano. This image of Christ the King didn’t seem like my friend, or my brother. Aunque la i...

Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Saints Oxnard ( Sabiduría 3:1–9; Salmo 24; Revelación 21:1–6ª; San Juan 11:32–44) “Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his holy ones, pues Dios es bueno y favorece a sus elegidos.” (Wisdom/Sabiduría 3:9). Los que confían en el Señor comprenderán la verdad. La verdad. The truth is a mystery, a mystery we hold today. Death and life. Sacred Communion, a mystical body. La verdad místico—este mundo no es toda la realidad. But death holds an unavoidable pain when it is the death of those we love, because a loved one has been taken from us. Even Jesus is moved at his friend Lazarus’ death. Aun Jesús duele por la muerte de su amigo Lázaro. And yet, God will restore even this. Dios s í renovar á a todo esto. How to grasp this mystery? Naturally, I will go to a children’s tale. Obviamente, voy a un cuento de los niños. ¿Algunos vieron la película “The Book o...

(www.mashable.com) M Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard                                  ( Job 42:1–6, 10–17; Psalm 34:1–8, (19–22); Hebrews 7:23–28; St. Mark 10:46–52) And Job said: “Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:6). I must admit these words surprised me a bit, coming out of Job. Thinking about all he has suffered, do we really have to see him repent? Yes, he realized he was talking a bit out of turn with God. But it seems a bit much to have to hear him say that after all he has suffered, he still must repent. Was it not sufficient for him to say that God was much bigger and more capable than we could imagine? Surely we could have left it at that. Gustavo Gutierrez, the Latin American liberation theologian, said something interesting about this passage. He said that this wor...