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St. Gabriel and All Angels

Sermon on the celebration of Low Sunday, the First Sunday after Easter

Today we continue to celebrate Easter as today is in the Octave of Easter. Actually, we will be celebrating the high festival of Easter for several more weeks.

We do this because the message of Easter is immense. The majesty and beauty, the fullness and omnipresence of God is so beyond words, and yet all words point to it. This takes time to assimilate in the fullness of its glory.

Christ’s teaching is threefold.

The first is:

• The creation, the universe, is;
• But in it’s Being it is a loving place;
• And the way to become one with all that lives is to find a way within one’s self to surrender, open and accept that all situations are an expression of that love;
• And then from within one’s self to express that love by embracing everything that comes into our lives.

The second is:

• Physical death is an illusion. Real life lies within each of us, in our innermost hearts, in the spirit.
• We each have the power to overcome physical death and live in that eternity, in the full sunshine of that spiritual life.
• And not just after we leave this physical body, but also while we still wear it, use it and live in it.
• This is the message of Easter.

The third is:

• In His humanity He shows us the way to walk this path of spirit;
• He shows us the way to be that perfect Divine Love;
• And He affirms through His life, death and resurrection that life is much, much more than just this physical body and its needs and desires.

The Liberal Catholic Church, as part of the larger Christian Church, has a special role to play, and I feel blessed to be able to participate. The heart of the Church as a whole is to be a vehicle for the distribution of Christ’s power and love to all who sincerely desire to know God. Through the sacraments, Christ comes to all, and wakes up His Life within us. As we come more and more awake to that Divine Spark within our heart, we live and breathe the Love of Christ in all we do and live for the greater good of all life, not just for ourselves. continue reading