The Rev. Dr. Margaret Neill is retired Episcopal priest living in North Carolina.
The Rev. Dr. Margaret Neill is a retired Episcopal priest living in North Carolina, having formerly served at St. John's Episcopal Church in Wilmington, NC. She was one of the first African American women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church and served in the diocese of Western Michigan.
Let us pray, Lord be in my heart, my mind and my mouth such that only your word is spoken, only your word is heard. Amen.
You know, Luke is a working Gospel. It's a hard teaching Gospel, a demanding discipleship. It never lets up from the birth narrative on. It calls us to be at work, doing something, understanding something all the time.
Read full transcript...A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 18. "Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, in a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my opponents.' For a while he refused. But later he said to himself, 'I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me I will grant her justice so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" And the Lord said "Listen to what the unjust judge says, and will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will He delay long in helping them? I tell you He will quickly grant justice to them. Yet when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Read full transcript...