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An American traveller was staying overnight with a family in a little Swiss village. The family invited him to go to Church for Vespers that evening. When they arrived at the Church, it was still twilight. But the American traveller noticed that there were no lights. It was not that the lights weren't turned on: there were no lights to turn on. He kept wondering what they would do when darkness fell. The family he came with had brought a lantern, but that certainly would not do for the whole Church. As he stood at a window of the Church and looked outside, he suddenly became aware that coming from all directions were lights, almost like fireflies flickering in the dark. Through the streets of the little village and across the valley and on the opposite hillside, he saw that the lights were in the hands of the people coming to Church. Each family was bringing a lantern. And as the people came into the Church, they filled it with light. The Church was glowing with light. Then, after Vespers, he watched the lights going back out into the world, across the valley and all through the village and onto the hillside opposite. And he said, "I'll never forget that symbol of what the Church really is." A community of persons, bearing the rich fruit of the Holy Spirit, going forth to light up the world with the really good life of the Lord Jesus Christ: that is what God wants us to want to be. Quote this article on your site | Views: 339 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for November 23rd 2008
[Year A]
Proper 29(34)
Sundays after Pentecost
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46
Ephesians 1:15-23
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