November 11, 2007
Pentecost 24

Resurrection

After the spirit-filled celebrations of our 50th Anniversary and the Annual Meeting, we quickly approach the end the Christian year and begin a new one with Advent I on December 2nd. The cycle in our calendars reminds us that there are endings and beginnings. As one cycle ends there is always the need to know what happens next, what are the events or activities that will come next; there is a big business on calendars and planners to help us with this.

In our Christian context, the need to know what happens next is reflected in our need to know and or understand the resurrection. Holding faith in the mystery and power of the resurrection is a challenge to all of us. When we find our faith wanting, we have many verses of scripture that help us focus on the reality of the resurrection; both Christ's and our own. We must not trouble ourselves, as the Sadducees did, about what laws would or would not apply in the resurrection. Like Job and countless faithful people throughout the ages, we must believe in the resurrection. We must believe that, in the mystery of the resurrection of Christ, we are promised a life in the resurrection with Him and with all of the saints and angels who have gone before us. This is Christ's promise to His followers throughout the generations. The words from the book of Job should give us the guide towards our faith "For I know that my Redeemer lives and that at the last He will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has thus been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God."

Silito

Take a look at some of the previous messages from the Rector