Above: Denial of Saint Peter, by a Follower of Gerard Seghers
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Waiting for Good News
MARCH 17, 2024
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The Collect:
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
—The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Daniel 12:1-10
Psalm 51:1-12
2 Timothy 4:5-22
Mark 14:53-72
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With one week to go before Palm/Passion Sunday, we read downbeat lessons–an apocalypse in Daniel 12, confession of sin in Psalm 51, reports of suffering and bad treatment in 2 Timothy 4, and the railroading of Jesus by the Sanhedrin and the denial of Jesus by St. Simon Peter. All of this is seasonally appropriate.
Where, however, is the good news? God shows mercy to the contrite. God keeps company with the faithful suffering. The resurrection is temporally nearby in the Gospel narrative. Furthermore, the fully realized Kingdom of God will be good news for the faithful.
Before we get to the good news, however, we must pass through the valley of the shadow of death.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JUNE 24, 2019 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
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