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Father Ian's Ponderings...

Twenty Third Sunday After Pentecost

7/11/2020

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Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
    Greetings!
“Watch and be ready, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming” (Mtt 24:42,44).
Does this sentence strike fear in us or hope in our lives today?
     Hopefully the latter is the case.
​    Apocalyptic passages and literature we find in Scripture are important, but we need to take care they don’t simply make us stargazers of the future rather than simply followers of the risen and present Christ. To listen and attend to what he is trying to speak through the gospels, whilst we amend our lives in ways we perceive Jesus calling us to do so.
      One of the great differences between the writers of the New Testament and people of today is realizing that they expected Jesus return to be immanent and within or close to their lifetime. Today it is much healthier to have the view that it will be in God’s time. God’s time which does not necessarily corelate with our time.
      What we are called to be though is people of hope and sometimes today hope is in short supply. However it is hope that needs to be a mindset for us. As we celebrate Eucharist we hope that Christ is among us, and indeed if we take Scripture seriously he is indeed among us. We hope for justice and peace and it is in hoping that gives the reason to strive and work for that in ways at our disposal. Hope and faith are interconnected and we should always hope that Jesus was, is, and is to come.
        Along with this you might like to ask yourself the question today, what else do I hope for? Of course there are a myriad of possible answers to this. For me I think my greatest hope today is like what Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians: that as followers of Jesus we can stay awake live out our faith with care and consideration for all people and for all of life as we know it. 
         
May your journey well in the presence of Christ this week.

Fr Ian

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    Rev Cannon Ian Howarth is the Rector of the Anglican Parish of St Paul's Kyneton and St John's Malmsbury and is the team leader of the Central Highlands Cluster. 

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Kyneton, Victoria
3444
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Cameron Street
​(Opposite Primary School)
Malmsbury, Victoria
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