It is our second Sunday of worshipping from home, using Facebook Live.
Our family gratefully appreciates that all that is being done, by Rev. Kit, by James and Ken, and others to bring this service to us.
We will gather once again, with our books of Common Prayer, and with access to the live stream bulletin. We will be with our other congregants in spirit if not in body.
The Gospel Reading today concerns the story of Lazurus and his resurrection.
The whole reading is John 11:1-45.
Below is a portion of it, John 11: 38-45
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. The Word of the Lord...Thanks be to God.
Like Lazurus, I have faith that the church will rise again. We will stay behind our stones, as best we can, and then when the time is right, and COVID-19 is conquered, we can be unbound and together again.
Our faith is strong. Our love for each other will see us through. We will remain connected in spirit.
And then, the stone will be taken away, and we can come together again in body, in a grand celebration of Hosannahs and jubilation.
Prayers and love to you all from the Strait family.
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