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The Rev. Thomas L. Brackett

This Prayer That Won't Let Me Go

John 17:6-19

7th Sunday of Easter/Ascension Sunday - Year B

May 20, 2012

The Rev. Thomas Brackett (TEC)

This passage is the gospel assigned for the 7th Sunday of Easter. In this excerpt, the writer offers us a word for word transcript of a prayer that he has somehow overheard Jesus praying. Jesus is here talking to His Heavenly Father, quite intimately reflecting on his mission. You might say that he is offering God a kind of exit interview. He explains that he understands his mission as that of making God's name known to these few who have been pulled out from the rest of the world. These are the few who would "get it." Oh right, and there was that one who was destined to be lost--speaking of Judas. The rest--well Jesus is asking the Holy Father to guard them from the Evil One and protect them--set them aside-- keep them untainted.

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The Very Rev. S. Chadwick Vaughn

Missouri, "My Fair Lady," and the Mission of the Church

John 20:19-31

2nd Sunday of Easter - Year B

April 15, 2012

The Very Rev. Chadwick Vaughn (TEC)

You may wonder, as I have, what U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, Eliza Doolittle, and Thomas the Apostle have in common.

To discern this, we need only listen to their own words to uncover a common denominator.

You first, Congressman Vandiver:

"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

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