On the Nature of Christian Mystery
We ask God in our Collect today to “make us to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name.” It bears exploring what “perpetual fear and love” refers to, what exactly the Church is talking about with these terms. This will be the theme of my preaching for the next number of weeks.
Today, we hear our Lord speak a parable about the Kingdom of God. And, like all of Our Lord’s parables, what we hear today is a bit odd. Why does He speak in this way? The parable was to a man who said, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God.” Why, to that statement, which seems innocent…
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