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| The Painter and the Child, Pablo Picasso |
A sermon read during the Choral Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 23rd September 2021 (Year B, Trinity 16, Proper 20) based on readings from James 3.13-4.3, 7-8a and Mark 9.30-37 and the text of the hymn ‘Lord of all hopefulness’ by William Walsham How which was sung to music by Bob Chilcott as an introit to the service.
Good News in a Nutshell
The truth of the answers to the most fundamental questions - like those we are asked before we take vows of marriage or the declarations we make at our baptism - take a lifetime to explore. To answer the questions we must embody them in our lives. Adults aren’t comfortable with these timescales. We prefer truth from below to truth from above. We like to box up our answers and pull them out in bingeable box sets; complete and on demand. Children are more open to beholding the wonder and mysteries of life. Jesus calls us, through baptism, do likewise.
