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Luke 9:28-36
Transfiguration Sunday - Year C
February 14, 2010
Bishop H. Julian Gordy (ELCA)We live in an age of science. Astronomy, biology, physics and the other sciences have been able to answer questions that were thought unanswerable just a few decades ago. After the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, astronomers announced that they had been able to see far enough out in space and, thus, far enough back in time, to see the echo of the big bang and the beginning of the universe.
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Being Saints of God
Revelation 21:1-6a
All Saints' Day - Year B
November 01, 2009
The Right Rev. Keith Whitmore (TEC)Today, in those churches that use the liturgical calendar, we commemorate All Saints Day. The early Church commemorated the life and witness of the martyrs from earliest times. But as the Church moved from a body of the persecuted by the culture to an acceptable expression of religious faith, martyrs were few. There were though, many whose lives served as an example to the community without the sacrifice of death. The Church has widely observed the festival of All Saints continuously since about the year 600. Originally kept on May 13th it was moved to November 1st around 735 and has remained there ever since.
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