{"id":2288,"date":"2023-08-02T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preachingforgodsworld.org\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:33:43","slug":"10th-sunday-after-pentecost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preachingforgodsworld.org\/10th-sunday-after-pentecost-2\/","title":{"rendered":"10th Sunday after Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2288\" class=\"elementor elementor-2288\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2753f168 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2753f168\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3e26f16b\" data-id=\"3e26f16b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64fc71 eael-dt-th-align-center eael-table-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-eael-data-table\" data-id=\"64fc71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"eael-data-table.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eael-data-table-wrap\" data-table_id=\"64fc71\" id=\"eael-data-table-wrapper-64fc71\" data-custom_responsive=\"false\">\n\t\t\t<table class=\"tablesorter eael-data-table center\" id=\"eael-data-table-64fc71\">\n\t\t\t    <thead>\n\t\t\t        <tr class=\"table-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t            <th class=\"\" id=\"\" colspan=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"data-table-header-text\">Lectionary<\/span><\/th>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t\t            <th class=\"\" id=\"\" colspan=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"data-table-header-text\">1st Reading<\/span><\/th>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t\t            <th class=\"\" id=\"\" colspan=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"data-table-header-text\">Psalm<\/span><\/th>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t\t            <th class=\"\" id=\"\" colspan=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"data-table-header-text\">2nd Reading<\/span><\/th>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t\t            <th class=\"\" id=\"\" colspan=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"data-table-header-text\">Gospel<\/span><\/th>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t\t        <\/tr>\n\t\t\t    <\/thead>\n\t\t\t  \t<tbody>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Anglican lectionary <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Genesis 32:22-31<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">17:1-7\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Romans 9:1-5<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Matthew 14:13-21<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Catholic lectionary:<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">97:1-2, 5-6, 9 <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">2 Peter 1:16-19<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td colspan=\"\" rowspan=\"\" class=\"\" id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"td-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"td-content\">Matthew 17:1-9<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t        \t\t\t    <\/tbody>\n\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t  \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4462695e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4462695e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>I wish to begin with some preliminary thoughts about how we read Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0A number of years ago, I was sitting with a group of Indigenous clergy at a regional church gathering, a gathering largely populated by and representing the perspective of non-Indigenous people. The discussion at the gathering was about the now common proposal that we follow a \u201cSeason of Creation\u201d in our schedule of daily and weekly Scripture readings. The season would identify texts that are specially focused on Creation and our relationship to it. As the discussion proceeded, someone tapped me on the shoulder. I looked behind to see the whole group of Indigenous clergy with very confused looks. One finally said, \u201cI thought all of Scripture was about Creation.\u201d<\/p><p>I am a supporter of a \u201cSeason of Creation.\u201d The Indigenous point, however, is vital. An Indigenous reading of the Scripture is not filtered through the centuries of Western Scientism and Materialism and the progressive alienation of human beings from the rest of Creation. The alienating trends that have spread through the globalizing culture of money have made it difficult for people to see the underlying \u201cCreationism\u201d in every text of Scripture. (Creationism is the best word I can find to describe a primary cosmological element of Scripture, the embedded point of view that there is an essential communion of humanity with the rest of Creation.) This view is primary and basic to Indigenous Peoples around the world. The symbiotic relationship between humanity and Creation is a defining feature and an existential commitment to the People of the Land and Seas.<\/p><p>I have heard many people say that we must import other more earth-friendly ideas to enhance our reading of Scripture, assuming that Scripture shares the basic cosmological assumptions of globalizing Western society. I would heartily endorse the application of science and other disciplines of knowledge and life in the illumination of Scripture. It is urgent, however, that the underlying Creation cosmology of Scripture be appreciated again, uncovered again. We must read it with this always in mind. The communion of Creation, so much a part of the Indigenous cosmology, is infused in every word of Scripture.<\/p><h3><u>SECTION ONE: NOTES ON THE READINGS<\/u><\/h3><p><b>Genesis\u00a032:22-31 (NRSV)<\/b><br \/><i>The same night he [Jacob] got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jab\u2019bok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24 Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob\u2019s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, \u201cLet me go, for the day is breaking.\u201d But Jacob said, \u201cI will not let you go, unless you bless me.\u201d 27 So he said to him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he said, \u201cJacob.\u201d 28 Then the man said, \u201cYou shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.\u201d 29 Then Jacob asked him, \u201cPlease tell me your name.\u201d But he said, \u201cWhy is it that you ask my name?\u201d And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the place Peni\u2019el, saying, \u201cFor I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.\u201d 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penu\u2019el, limping because of his hip.<\/i><\/p><p>In this text, we would note Scripture\u2019s ever present and meaningful attention to water, in the identification of the stream as a critical element of this urgent spiritual moment in Creation and history. The encounter is not divorced from the physical, spirit and body are \u2013 ahem \u2013 joined at the hip. The rhythms of night and day frame this encounter. Everything in the narrative breathes with the physicality of a Spirit infused, Word revealing, Creation. It begs us to see the inseparable connection of place, humanity, and the life of the Spirit.<\/p><p><b>Psalm\u00a017: 1 \u2013 7, 15\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01 (NRSV) Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 From you let my vindication come;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let your eyes see the right.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03 If you try my heart, if you visit me by night,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my mouth does not transgress.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04 As for what others do, by the word of your lips<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have avoided the ways of the violent.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05 My steps have held fast to your paths;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my feet have not slipped.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0incline your ear to me, hear my words.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07 Wondrously show your steadfast love,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O savior of those who seek refuge<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from their adversaries at your right hand.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a015 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Note: Verse numbering in your Psalter may differ from the above<\/p><p>This Psalm reveals and celebrates the presence of God in all aspects of life, the steadfast love of God. This presence intimately searches humanity. Do the actions of human beings echo, exemplify, and reveal the actions of God? No where is this seen more clearly than in the Eucharistic Sacramental life revealed by the life, action, and teaching of Jesus.<\/p><p><b>Romans\u00a09: 1 \u2013 5 (NRSV)<\/b><br \/><i>I am speaking the truth in Christ\u2013I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the \u00a0Holy Spirit\u2013 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Messiah, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.<\/i><\/p><p>Paul identifies, in the history of Israel, a larger and universal trajectory of the Living Word of God, in Creation and history. Despite his alienation from something so very dear \u2013 his people and his identity \u2013 Paul can, displaying in his own love the sacrificial love at the heart God\u2019s life in the universe, see the promise and power of the presence of God in Israel, in history, and in Creation. In his pain, he affirms the promise and praises the eternal God who is the Ruler of the Universe.<\/p><p><b>Matthew 14: 13 &#8211; 21\u00a0(NRSV) <\/b><br \/><i>Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.\u00a015 When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, \u201cThis is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.\u201d 16 Jesus said to them, \u201cThey need not go away; you give them something to eat.\u201d 17 They replied, \u201cWe have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.\u201d 18 And he said, \u201cBring them here to me.\u201d\u00a019 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20 And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. 21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.<\/i><\/p><p><strong>&#8220;First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament&#8221; by Terry M. Wildman<\/strong><br \/>13 When Creator Sets Free (Jesus) heard how Gift of Goodwill (John) had been put to death, he found a canoe and went off to a deserted place to be alone for a while. But the crowds of people, when they heard about it, went after Creator Sets Free (Jesus) from their villages. 14 And when he came to shore, they were waiting for him. He felt deeply for them, so he healed the ones who were sick. 15 When the evening came, his followers said to him, \u201cThis is a deserted place, and the day is almost over. Let us send the people away to the villages in the country- side so they can find food to eat.\u201d Creator Sets Free (Jesus) looked around at the great crowd of people, for there were over five thousand who had gathered there. 16 \u201cThere is no need to send them away,\u201d he said to his followers. \u201cYou feed them.\u201d His followers could not believe their ears! 17 With one voice they said to him, \u201cAll we have is five pieces of frybread and two fish!\u201d 18 \u201cBring them to me,\u201d he told them.\u00a019 Then he had all the people sit down on the grass. He took the five pieces of frybread and two fish and held them to the sky. He looked up, gave thanks to the Great Spirit, and began to break the frybread into smaller pieces, which he gave to his followers to give to the people. 20 Everyone ate until they were full! When they were done, they gathered the leftovers\u2014twelve baskets full! 21 Not counting the women and children, there were about five thousand men who had eaten.&#8221;<br \/>First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.\u00a0IVP Books, 1st edition (Aug. 31 2021).<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/First-Nations-Version-Terry-Wildman\/dp\/0830813500\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/First-Nations-Version-Terry-Wildman\/dp\/0830813500\">https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/First-Nations-Version-Terry-Wildman\/dp\/0830813500<\/a><\/p><p>Present here, are four feasts that reveal the presence of God as the pulsing heart of every particle of Creation:\u00a0First, the feeding of the more than five thousand, a prophetic act which displays the miracle of the other three feasts;\u00a0Second, the everyday feasts in which the mystery of life and presence of God is marvelously revealed \u2013 all the other feasts are echoed in this daily feast, this daily bread; Third, the feast in the World to Come, the culmination of God\u2019s presence in Creation and history, definitively and with salvation revealed and made present in the life, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus;\u00a0And fourth, the Eucharist, in which all four feasts meet, in which all four are prophetically revealed, and God\u2019s moral and spiritual presence in every moment, particle, and action of Creation and history.\u00a0<\/p><p>God is not revealed in terms of human might, God is revealed in the forces of life, in the energy that sustains and propels all of Creation. As Jesus mystically presides in our gathering \u2013 receiving, blessing, breaking, and sharing \u2013 we see life and we see our path of life in Creation. We must sanctify \u2013 and at the same time reveal the holiness that is present \u2013 Creation as the gift of God. Jesus give us a ceremony of life in four dimensions, but he also gives us a way of life which follows the pattern of his life, displaying and embodying the sacrificial love of God present in all of life.\u00a0<\/p><p>In a world that appears to have lost connection with Creation and with the God who is present in it, it is urgent that we plunge in to the vibrating life of this mystery. As we may not, in many places today, share the completeness of this Eucharist as we would, we may find the meaning of its call to both live life and see Creation \u2013 and bless Creation, by holy action that protects and honours its God given integrity \u2013 in the living of this feast, in imitating this feast in the minute and blessed acts of life. The bouquet of Scriptures especially adorn, reveal, and celebrate the miraculous presence of the reality in Creation and history.<\/p><p>As I have learned from Indigenous elders, entering ceremony is to enter the time and realm of the spiritual life that undergirds, animates, and preserves Creation. It is to specially reveal and honour the Creator, but it also seeks the healing power of that goodness which sustains life. This goodness, this understanding, has a miraculous character and an immediate healing radiance in the lives of participants, but also in the reconciliation of people to the Land, the Land being the eco-sphere of the relationships through which God creates and sustains life. This, I hope, is a revealing partner to the ceremony that is at the heart of our Christian life and experience.<\/p><h3><u>SECTION TWO:\u00a0\u00a0ADDITIONAL MATERIAL<\/u><\/h3><p>Raymond Aldred and Matthew Anderson.\u00a0Our Home and Treaty Land. Kelowna, BC: Wood Lake, 2022.<\/p><p>Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding\u00a0Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. 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Ken Gray<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-390d0d85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"390d0d85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Recently retired from Parish and Cathedral \u00a0ministry in western Canada, the Very Rev. Ken Gary was the first secretary of the ACEN. He tells his own story of conversion to God&#8217;s earth in a forthcoming book he is editing titled Partnership as Mission: Essays in Memory of Ellie Johnson. 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