On Seeing the Parish as Eucharistic
As we approach the season of Advent, which is right around the corner, my sermon series on the eucharistic life will reach its conclusion. Still left to reflect upon under the banner of eucharistic life are the topics of stewardship and the parish, and over these last weeks I will go back and forth between them. Today I begin with the parish.
There are two things that stand out to me in our Gospel passage. The first is that in healing the paralytic, Jesus recognizes not the faith of the paralytic but the faith of the people who brought Jesus to the paralytic. For as Saint Matthew records…
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