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A 40-page document is available fan1e of its theolo gians and church on Relationships from the World Council of leaders also enco uraged this choice. In a series of public remarks , Churches for celebrating the Week Scottish Protestant churches were including his Christmas Eve sem1on of Prayer for Christian Unity on Jan . also particularly active in mission and brief reflections for Vatican 18-25. and had a reputation for paying Radio, the Archbishop of Canterbury The document is prepared and attention to local cultures ." has stressed healthy dependence on published jointly by the Pontifical A centenary conferenc e, "Edin­ God and openness to other people. Council for Promoting Christian burgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ Both them es appear regularly in Unity and the World Counc il of Today," is scheduled for June 2-6. the archbishop's leadership style and Churches' Commission on Faith and "During the 2010 Week of Prayer in his messages to Anglicans, such as Order. for Christian Unity we are invited to his reflections on the Anglican Com­ The Pontifical Council has made follow the whol e of chapt er 24 of munion Covenant. the same mate1ial available on its Luke's gospel," the document said in In his two-minute remarks for Vati­ website, but has asked Roman explaining this year's them e. can Radio, Archbishop Rowan Catholics to "contact the Ecumeni­ "Whether it be the te1Tified women Williams drew from the account in cal Commission of your Bishops ' at the tomb, the two discouraged Luke 2 of angels proclaiming good Conference or the Synod in your disciples on the road to Emmaus or news to shepherds about the birth of country in order to obtain a copy of the eleven disciples overtaken by . the text adapted for your local con­ doubt and fear , all who toget her "This is a story that's good news for text." encounter the Risen Ch.list are sent everyone," the archbis hop said. "If The theme of this year's celebra­ on mission: 'You are witness of it's a story for everyone, it can't be a tion is "You Are Witnesses of These thes e things.' This mission of the story of winners and losers, insiders Things," which is bas ed on the Church is given by Christ and can­ and outsiders, us and them. Really words of tl1e resurrect ed Christ to not be appropriated by anyone. It is taking the Christmas story on board his disciples (Luke 24:48). the community of thos e who have is to go beyond all that , to let go of Mr. Andrew Barr of the Scottish been recon ciled with God and in this compulsive human habit of Episcopal Church, and other Scot­ God, and who can witne ss to the thinking of everything in terms of tish , helped prepar e the truth of the power of salvation in conflicts that someone wins and initial texts for the celebrations. Jes us Christ. someone loses, or cyompetitions in This year's material commemorates "We sense that Mary Magdalene, which we have to get the better of the Edinburgh Mission Conference Peter or the two Enuna us disciples them. Somehow, we need to believe of 1910. will not witness in the same way," that the love of God, turned into flesh "The official delegates of Protes­ the docum ent added. "Yet it will be and blood in this baby in the stable, is tant mission societies from the dif­ the victory of Jesus over death that big enough, spacious enough, for any ferent branche s of Protestantism all will place at the heart of their wit­ and every human being, so that when and Anglicanism , joined by an ness. The personal enco unter with we look at another perso n, our first Orthodox guest , met during the the risen One has radically changed thought should be, 'They're welcome summer of 1910 in the Scottish cap­ their lives and in its uniqueness for in the stable. They're welcome in the ital," said a background article in the eac h one of them one thing place where God lives.' " document . "In 1910 the Scottish becomes imperativ e: 'You are wit­ In his Christmas Eve sermon, ecclesial landscape was beginning nesses of these things.' Their stmy preached at Canterbury Cathedral, to diversify and the Roman Catholic will accentuate different things, the archb ishop contrasted depend­ and Episcopal Churches once more sometimes diss ent may arise ence on God with modern culture's enjoyed a more importan t role. between them about what faithful­ emphasi s on independence and Edinburgh was chosen as the place ness to Christ requires, and yet all pride. for the meeting because of its intel­ will work to announce the Good "Relationship is the new thing at lectual and cultural vitality. The News."

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that "all may be one" (John 17:21) - words that today emblazon the friars' coat of arms (ut ornnes unum sint) and motivate their ministry. From their outpost on this holy mountain and in centers around the globe, the Atonement friai·s are responsible for inserting the "Church Unity Octave" into the liturgi­ cal calendar. It began first in the United Stat es at Graymoor in Fr. Wattson in 1902, when 1908 and was later called the "Chair of Unity Octave" he served as rector of St. John 's, Kingston, N.Y. to emphas ize its Petrine dimension. It has now given

Friars of I.he Atonement photos way to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which since 1966 has been a.joint project of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Week of Prayer is marked in churches By Patrick J. Hayes around the world each January 18-25. The role of the Chur ch Unity Octave was not arly one morning last summer, I walked out to mer ely to repair relations between th e Roman E the precipice of a "holy mountain." I looked Catho lic Church and th e Anglican Commun ion, but out and saw the fog lifting from an immense and was an active and prayerful att empt at returning the undulating forest below, like incense from a thurible. Anglican world to pre-Reformation bonds with I knew I was walking on holy ground and I soaked up Rome. The idea for this festival of unity emerged in the silence, interrupted only by the stray bird on the the simple exchange of words betwe en friends. It is wing. In this sweet-smelling, bounteous setting I easy to pinpoint the exact date , too. On Nov. 30, was a pilgrim. There at the ledge was the grave of 1907, Fr. Wattson was writing out replies to letters he Father Paul James Francis Wattson, founder of the had received the previous day. Among his corre ­ Society of the Atonement, a group of friars that spondents was his friend and fellow priest , the Rev. established themselves for the strict purpose of unit­ Spencer John Jones, the Anglican re ctor of St. ing the branches of the Christian faini.ly. David's Church, Moreton -in-Marsh, England. Fr. Fr. Wattson's life is less well known than his legacy Jones suggest ed that a special sermo n be given on and it is deliberate that his grave should rest in a Christian unity in every chur ch in the Anglicai1 Com­ somewhat remote corner of the property at Gray­ munion on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, moor, the Atonement friai·s' headquarters in Garri­ to restore unity in the one Church of Christ. Fr. Watt­ son, N.Y.The career of Fr. Wattson is subordinat e to son agreed and asked his correspondent what he his singular ambition to fulfill the Lord's command thought of "inaugurating a Church Unity Week begin-

6 Tli!6 UV ING CHUR.CH • IANUARY 17. 2010 ning with S. Peter's Chair at Rome, January 18, and thought, in May 1894 he began to publish The Pulp it ending with S. Paul's Day." Fr. Jones picked up this and the Cross. idea and helped promote it throughout Europe; Fr. These two-fold venues - the pulpit and the press Wattson reached the multitudes everywhere else. - allowed Fr. Wattson to communicate his ideas of Behind this expression of Fr. Wattson's thinking engagement with the Roman . In lay a longstanding commitment which was in gesta­ 1895, he understood the doctrine of papal supremacy tion since his boyhood. Born Lewis Thomas Wattson - delineated in the Apostolic Const itution Pastor in Millington, Md., in 1863, he was the son of the Aeternus at Vatican I (1870) - as both a test of Episcopal rector of the little parish of St. Clement's, American democracy and itself a religious problem. whose only notable feature was the white Com­ All Roman Catholic bishops in the munion tab le, a gift from Queen Anne. Fr. Wattson's were agents of a foreign bishop , he contended, and father, Joseph, had been expelled from General The­ so had "no lawful jurisdiction" on these shores . He ological Seminary, and sometimes labeled a "Jesuit often wrote on sacramenta l questions and papal in disguise," but was brought into the ministry authority, always respectfully critiquing the position through the graciousness of Bishop William R. Whit­ held by Rome. \Vhy couldn't Roman Catholics see tingham of Baltimore. their errors? Or was it Fr. Wattson and his tribe tha t The elder Fr. Wattson was never able to escape the were somehow misund erstanding? whispers of his leanings toward Rome. Many at the A combination of questioning and a search for a time considered any rapprochement toward Roman deeper interior life came to a head in 1895. That Catholicism a blasphemy, and such openness was (Continued on nex t page) roundly condemned by people like the Rev. A Cleve­ land Coxe, rector of Grace Church, Baltimore. Writ­ ing in an introduction to Frederick Meyrick's Moral Theology of the Church of Rome (Baltimore, 1856), Fr. Coxe made no bones about his stance: "Papal Rome, like Rome Imperial, has but one instin ct, and that is - Empire. Its undying part is the iron will, by which all humanity must be crushed into subjec­ tion." We know that young Fr. Wattson read this kind of literature, just as he observed the whispers sur­ rounding his father, whom he revered. Lewis would go on for schooling out of st.ate at St. Mary's Hall in New Jersey and then to St. Stephen's College (now ) before entering General Seminary. He was ordained in 1885 and, after a brief parish assign­ ment in Maryland, he became the rector of St. John 's Episcopal Church in Kingston, N.Y. He remained there for the next ten years. Biographers later would describe the young priest as a "High Churchman" and one endowed with an "extraordi nary preaching ability." But they also noted how he seemed somewhat reclusiv e, almost given to a monastic lifestyle. His early spirituality, deeply imbued with biblical literalism, is seen as giving way to his growing interest in religious life, especia lly Franciscanism, which prized personal pove1ty as given in a common rule even while work­ ing to eradicate poverty in the society. In his ser­ mons, he spoke from the herut, almost never reading from notes, and balanced his words with his deep knowledge of Scripture. Invitations soon began to pour in for Fr. Wattson to come and preach beyond Stained-glass depiction at Graymoor of Pius X blessing his own congregation. As a way of spreading his Fr. Wattson and Mother Lurana, representing their 1909 reception into the Roman Catho lic Church .

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(Continued from previous page) through the acceptance of papal infallibility. Another summer he was approached by a group of unmarried publication, The Antidote , specifically set an apolo­ Episcop al men living a semi-monastic life in Omaha . getic tone to counteract the anti-Roman vitriol of The They wondered whether Fr. Wattson would agree to Menac e, a Midwestern publi cation that had nearly be their supe rior. He gave it three years before 1.5 million subscribers. returning to New York, even more confus ed than In his work to allay suspicions over fore ign befor e. encroachments in the United States, Fr. Wattson Fr. Wattson's reputation caught the atte ntion of also defended those Anglicans who were scorned for Lurana Mary White, who first contacted him in 1896. trying to close the breac h with Rome. Fr. Wattson She was then living in a dioce san community of looked upon the squabb les within Anglicanism less Episcopal women in Albany - the Sisters of the as an opportunity to grouse and more as a chance to Holy Child - and had also been hoping to form a sis­ show pastoral solicitude. Fr. Paul had a strict policy terhood that would embrace corporat ely and indi­ never to utter a word against Anglicanism, but chose vidually the vows of poverty , chastit y, and obedi ­ inst ead to highlight the 's val­ ence. Searching for a communi ty of this sort pro ved ues, the eloquence of its members, and the beauty of difficult in the United States and so she joined the its sacrament al life. He carr ied this policy throu gh­ Sisters of Bethany in London . out his life, teac hing not mere tolerance but Jove. After a year's novitiate, and having accepted the This is all the more remar kable given that both Fr. brown habit and cord of the , she Paul and Mother Lurana, along with 17 other mem­ entered a new phase of her spiritual bers - siste rs, friars, and laymen - were life. Before returning to America in Even after rece ived corporately into the Roman 1898, she made a pilgrimage to Rome Catholic Chur ch on Oct. 30, 1909. In 1910, and Assisi where, she later wrote, she becoming afte r a year's work at St. Joseph's Semi­ beca me "guilty of a pious act of duplic­ a Roman nary in Yonkers, Fr. Wattso n was ordained ity." While touring St. Peter's Basilica in by Archbishop John Farley of New York. the Vatican, she left her party long Catholic priest, "Coming over" had not been easy, but it enough to kiss the foot of the sta tue of he never was not a decision made in haste . Arch­ St. Peter. bishop Farley com muni cated his own She brought Fr. Wattson to her fam­ publicly misgivings to Rome - he did not like the ily home in upstat e New York, where a repudiated manner of th e foundation , let alone its kind of mutua l epiphan y occurred. message. Though the corporate conver­ Formin g a spirit ual alliance that would his Anglican sion of Fr. Paul and his companio ns was last all of their lives, in December 1898 don e through the formal rite , includin g Mother Lurana took po ssess ion of a orders. an abjuration of their Anglica nism, the piece of property to begin a new reli- founder of the Society of the Atonement gious communi ty. In the sp1ing of 1899, the two had made it clear that the renunciation would not be would launch their new venture - the Society of the negative. There would be no curse, but a solemn Atonement - from an abandoned farmhouse and recognition of the truth of perso nally held convic­ chapel on a hilltop in Garrison. tions. Fr. Wattson had written in The Lamp in 1907 Over the course of the next ten years, a steady that "I could not bear those peop le who say that the creep toward Rome was in evidence. His study of Anglican Chur ch is a mockery." religious life was augmented by a year's trial in the Even after becoming a Roman Catholic priest, he Fathers of the Holy Cross at Westminster, Md., and never publi cly repudiated his Anglican ord ers. Only in 1900 he also accepted the habit of a Franci scan after dialogue with officials in the Roman hierar­ friar, ta king the name Paul Jam es. Fr. Wattso n soon chy, includin g the prefect of the Congregation for found himself back in New York, building up Gray­ Religious , Genarro Cardinal Falconio, and the Sec­ moor and touring nearby chur ches. In 1901, he was retary of State to the , Cardinal Merry del invited to pr each before an Episcopal congregatio n Val, was the way paved for his reception. in Long Island and chose as his topic "The Rew1ion This high-level contact proved fortuitous, becaus e of Christendom and the Chair of Peter ." It was diffi ­ through their assistance Fr. Wattson was able in cult to hear him over the noise of those vacating the turn to present his hop e for the Chmch Unity Octave chur ch. Undeterred, in 1903 he began to publish The directly to Pope Pius X, who blessed the initiative, Lamp, a magazine advocating greater ties with Rome and later Pope Benedict XV, who exte nded the

8 THE LIVIN G CHURCH· JANUARY 17, 2010 observance to the universal Church in February bishop 's relation to the Chur ch Unity Octave was as 1916. In 1921, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of a "part icipan t observer" - frequently allowing Fr. Philadelphia proposed to the hierar chy that the Wattson the use of the pulpit at the Cathedral of St. octave be observed throughout the Unite d States - Patrick to promo te the cause of unity. a resolution that , for the first time in the history of Not everything was so sunny, how ever, for Fr. American Roman Catholicism, received unanimous Wattson. He experie nced seve ral difficulties with conse nt. members of his new fraternity, and this would prove Roman Catholics in the United States wer e catch­ a mild distraction compared to his legal woes. As the ing up with their Anglican bretlu·en. The Lambeth superior of the convent of sisters, he had charg e of Conferen ce had by the late 1870s propo sed a season their welfare. The convent' s property was owned by of pray er for Christian unification and in the 1890s thTee women - all good Episcopal ladies of Garri­ the Archbishop of Canterbury ordered that fitting son - who had permitted the sisters' growth but prayers be spoken on Whit Sunday. In th e United never signed over a deed. Truste es of St. John 's Epis­ States in 1913, the Faith and Order Commission of copa l Chur ch, which had stood as a ramshackle the Protestant Epis copal Church published a pam­ chap el on the property before the arrival of Mother phlet of pray ers commending chur ch unity on Whit Lurana, evicted the sisters in 1910, one year after Sunday. By 1915, a full-sca le manual of prayers was they had become Roman Catholics. drawn up. Fr. Wattson's own ecclesiastical superior, Mother Lurana chose to follow the longstanding now Cardinal Farley, was relu cta nt to entertai n his Fran cisca n principle of offering no resistan ce, think­ proposal for fear of confusion among the faithful or, ing it better to be hom eless than to be the so urce of worse still, communio in sacris. conflict. Fr. Wattson saw the matter differently and By contrast, Farley's successor, Archbishop (later vowed to pmsue it in court - a decision that can ied Car din al) Patrick Hayes, was among the first on for the next seven years. An agreement was prelates in the United States to advocate for the struck, however, when Fr. Wattson met Hamilton Unity Octave. Archbishop Hayes , it might be noted , Fish II on Election Day in 1917. Fish was not only a was noto1iously scrupulous in avoiding any engage­ well known politician in the state of New York; he ments with Protestants, but he saw in this movement was also the se nior warden of St. Philip's Episcopal an opening that was eccles iasti cally legal, satisfying Chur ch in Garrison. When Fr. Wattson explained his of Jesus' own command , and productive of good legal troubles, Fish offered to broker a sett lement, will. His instinct in approving the work of Fr. Watt­ which was finally won in March 1918, by an act of son proved important for the futur e of the Week of the New York legislatur e. As a side 110Le, all of the Prayer, for without the archbishop's approbation, original owners of the property became Roman the friar could not have continued in as succ essfu l a Catholic and two are buried in the sisters' cemetery fashion as he did . Throu ghout his tenure, the arch- (Continu ed on next page )

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(Continued from previous page) and heart, but flows from it. at Graymoor. But the lesson of the story is simple: Achieving that quietude cooperation in the Christian household always comes from asking ourselves brings a greater yield and is one more visible token sometimes difficult questions: in praise of God's glory. What do I believe? To whom shall I turn? Who am I? What is impr ess ive about the path Fr. Wattson took is The 1920s and '30s were building years for the not so much his rather spec­ order, which constructed a seminary , a printery, tacular conversion or the slu·ine chapels and St. Christopher's Inn, a treatment issues attendant upon it, as Fr. Wattson at his desk in the 1930s . center. The numb ers of sisters and friars burgeoned. much as the authenticity of its Always the messag e was the same: unity is the hall­ genesis, together with its manifold fruits. Roman mark and sustenance of the work. But as Fr. Wattson Catholics cannot ignore the abiding fealty Fr. Watt­ began to slow (he died in 1940), his allies in the nas­ son had toward the purest elements of the Anglican cent ecumenical movement picked up the charge. In spirit, since part of that is its desire toward the voca­ Belgium, Dom Lambert Beaudoin found ed in 1925 a tion of unity. In an era of ordinariates, Roman Benedictine community that took shape at Cheve­ Catholics will do well to observe how a new injec­ togne for the express purpose of praying for unity ­ tion of Anglican cult ure into their midst will serve to originally with the Orthodox, but now with all Ch1is­ heal and mal

10 THE LIVING CHURCH · JANUARY17 , 20JO guest column Finding Visible Unity Editor's Note: This week's guest column features a reflection on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from The Living Church's archives. Written by the late Rev. H. Boone Porter, editor of TLC from 1977 to 1990, it appeared in the magazine's Jan. 20, 1980, edition. A basic element in the Christian fact laws working themselves rmderstanding of creation is unity. out in particular circum­ Pagan religions, believing in many stances. Even the exceptions gods, may have envisioned one god turn out in nature to be the as the maker of the earth, another result of the consistent appli­ as the giver of life, others as gods cation of recognized princi­ of love, war, or commerce. Christi­ ples. anity, on the other hand ( along with Human life is, however, Judaism and Islam), insists that the always the exceptional excep ­ one true God, the only one there is, tion. Our life does indeed made everything. His own single sometimes reflect the order loving purpose is back of it all. and harmony observed else ­ Hence Christians see signs of wher e in nature , but often it unity everywhere. We cannot actu­ does not. The coherence and ally prove that there is an underly­ consistency which we notice ing unity in the entire universe , so abundantly in the lives of because we would have to know We perceive most other animals are ideas all about the universe as a whole to with our senses for humans, things to think do so - which is impossible. We about and talk about, not sim­ believe, however, that there is such and feelings ple and present realities. a unity (the very word universe a harmony, Among other species of mam­ reflects such a belief) and we are an order, mals, individuals relat e to one alert to notice consistencies. We another in the way they are perceive with our senses and feel­ a coherence supposed to-herd animals ings a harmony, an order, a coher ­ to things moving together, solitari es ence to things everywhere in the everywhere in leading their own lives, moth­ natural world. ers caring for their off-spring This perception has been dramat­ the natural world. until a certain point in their ically vindicated by modern sci- development, and so forth. ence. It has been discovered that there is a unity Their ways of life are instinctive. and consistency in mathematics, physics, and For us, life requires thought , making decisions , chemistry beyond anything we could have imag­ effort, and skill. People who decide to live at ined. peace with one another need certain skills in This does not mean that many oddities and order to do so. Some never attain these skills. contradictions do not remain. Many attractive Others don 't want to. looking red berries are poisonous rather than The effort to find visible unity in the Christian nourishing, lemmings continue to drown them­ Church is a small but most important facet in the selves in Scandinavia, and strange blights and search for unity in human life as a whole. It is a plagues spread themselves. Yet even the oddities frustrating effort, but one which cannot be aban­ tum out to be the result of perfectly matter-of- doned by those who believe in one God.

JANUARY 17. 20 10 · THE LIVING C HURCH 11 catholic voices The Covenant and the Fullness of Time n the course of a very long sentence, full of "the full visible unity of the Church." Ivisionary flight and theological ballast, Paul At precisely this point a huge strength of the pro­ tells us about God's plan "for the fullness of time, to posed Covenant is identifiable: it is a document gather up all things in him, things in heaven and intended to serve the full visible unity of the Angli­ things on earth" (Eph. 1:10 NRSV). The unity envi­ can Communion in accordance with the ultimat e sioned here is breathtaking in its cosmic scope. plan of God. Yet critics of the Covenant find much Everything will be gathered up in Christ in the cul­ to complain about. It will impose uniformity, stifle mination of God's plan being worked out through proph etic action, and lead to a Communion ruled history. by Canterbury - so we are told. The implication is inescapable: the Church antic­ But this, not to put too fine a point on the matter, ipates the end of the plan by living in peaceful unity is a form of sanctified carping. The vision for the here and now. Unsurprisingly Paul follows the the­ unity of the Church in the prayers of Jesus and Paul ological first half of Ephesians with an application is a vision for a Church with diversity, prophecy, second half in which he begs his readers "to live a and lay participation. Our Anglican vision for being life worthy of the calling to which you have been what we are named , a full visible Communion with called ... making every effort to maintain the unity an ecumenical vocation, is no less than the vision of the Spirit in the bond of peace" (4:1,3). There is of God itself. How dare we deflect it with prognos ­ more, much more, in a similar vein in this chapter tications of bleak outcomes! ( e.g. "the unity of the faith," v. 13). One challenge of the Covenant, then , is whether The situation of the Church in the world today is we are committed to a theology of unity in our a travesty of the vision articulated in Ephesians, Communion. Such a theology, drawn from Eph­ itself a vision in harmony with the prayer of our esians and the Gospel of John , calls us to speak the Lord "that they may be one" (John 17:11,20). For truth in love and to love one another in truth. It the Anglican Communion as a particular expres­ offers no easy recours e either to dismiss unity in sion of God's Church, what Paul says in Ephesians the name of "truth" or to suppress commitment to is, or ought to be, a sober dose of theological med­ truth in the name of "unity." But a theology of unity, icine healing our ills of division. faithful to Christ and the Spirit, provokes us with It is not just that the Communion should be uni­ searching questions. If we claim to know the truth , fied, but also that the whole Church of God in the are we willing to submit that claim to the whole world should be one Church. All this, incidentally, body of Christ for judgment? If we claim to live in is not only so the mission of God may be strength­ unity, is it on the basis of truth we believe together? ened through the witness of a united Church. A Are we making every effort to maintain the unity of united Church, as a precursor to a united world , is the Spirit in the bond of peace ? Should that effort the mission of God. For the Anglican Communion include commitment to signing the Covenant? to continue fracturing is a sign that collectively we It would be strange to affirm as an Anglican that do not understand God's will for the world . one was making every effort to maintain the unity If this line of thought is con-ect then there is a of the Spirit while refusing to sign the Covenan t. deep irony when the final text of the Covenant The effort, in an Ephesians persp ective, is worth it talks of "the ecumenical vocation of Anglicanism to because the goal is not stit ching together an agree­ the full visible unity of the Church in accordance ment which enables the Commun ion to lin1p along with Christ's prayer that 'all may be one '" (from till its nex t crisis. The goal is the universe itself: one 2.1.5). The Anglican Communion, with its roots not world under God, pr efaced by one Church united in only in the Catholic and Reformed but also ancient Christ. orthodox Church in England, is uniquely placed to fulfill this ecumenical vocation. Yet at this time the The Rev. Dr. Peter Carrell is Director of Educa­ Anglican Communion is unabl e to offer itself, let tion, Diocese of Christchurch, in the Anglica n alone other churches, a sure sign of vocation to Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia.

12 TH E LIVIN G C H URC II · JAN UARY 17. 20 10 Sunday's read ings I The Second Sunday after The Epiphany, Jan. 17, 2010 > ./ Superabundant Grace "My hour has not yet come" (John 2:4)

BCP: Isaiah 62:1 -5; Psalm 96 or 96:1-10; 1 Cor. 12:1 - 11; John 2:1 - 11 RCL: Isaiah 62:1 - 5; Psalm 36:5-10; 1 Cor. 12:1 -1 1; John 2:1-11

Six stone pwi.fi.cationjars, filled with purpose taking shape in Jesus. thy of the celebration. It was pale and cold water - one can hardly imagine The wedding assembly, too, is an old watery beside the new vintage something more dull and dead. But symbol. God's relationship with Israel uncorked by Christ's miracle. And Jesus makes them flow with rich wine, is often described as a marriage. Our there simply hadn't been enough. Now regaling the guests at a marriage feast. Old Testament lesson describes the Cluist brings gallons upon gallons , an St. John is right to call this the first of renewal and vindication of the land as overflowing, superabundant blessing. Jesus ' "signs." As with all the miracles a royal wedding. Jerusalem , the Episcopalian poet Richard Wilbur cap­ in his gospel , this tale from Cana is blessed bride, is given a new name , tmed the point quite well: replete with dee p symbolism, and "my delight is in her." When God truly It made no earthly sense, unless to show reveals something crucial about Jesus ' made himself known to his people , How whatsoever love elects to bless mission , the unfolding process that when grace and peace reigned on Bringsto a sweet excess results in his "glorification" as Savi.or of earth, it would be like a wedding. That can without depletion overflow. the world. Wine is the natural embl em of the Jesus tells his mother , "my hour has The stone jars were designed for joys of manied life. It gladdens the not yet come ," but every detail in the the compli cated ritual washings heart and makes company more con­ story points forward to the purpose requir ed by the Law of Moses. Their vivial. Pressed from the grape, it points for which he has com e. Christ will number is one short of seven , the back to the fruitful vine so often renew th e covenant between God and bibli cal number of perfection. They praised as the perfect symbol of a life his people, and seal it with blood as red symbolize th e old covenant , good blessed by God. as wine. He will supply superabundant and pur e, but incompl ete, destined There had been wine at the begin ­ grac e, which makes us fruitful and fills to give way in the face of God's new ning of the feast, but it was hardly wor- us with joy. Look It Up Think Abou t It Psalm 128 is som etim es used at weddings. In th e light of this gospel What do these texts sugges t about passage , try reading it as a prophecy addressed to Christ. the sacran1entality of manfage?

Next Sunday The Third Sunday After The Epiphany (Year C), January 24, 2010 BCP: Neh. 8:2 - 10; Psalm 113; 1 Cor. 12:12 -27; Luke 4:14-21 RCL: Neh. 8:1 -3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Cor. 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21

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