The Call of God

Holy Trinity Winchester Podcast · Feb 24, 2025 · 15m

God’s Calling in ExistenceOur Gospel text today, it seems to me, is highly appropriate for a day on which we celebrate the sacrament of Holy Baptism. For it speaks to us of God’s faithfulness in his calling and constant presence in our lives.The drama of the story, of course, is the storm that threatens to envelop the disciples’ boat and their panicked cry as they wake their Master to inform him of the danger. But consider the beginning of this story: ‘One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake”’.The initiative was…