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Job 19:23-27a; Psalm 17 or 17: 1-8; 2 Thess. 2: 13-3:5; Luke 20:27(28-33)34-38 1 1 We Episcopalians are used to both might wish that he would do so. looking for and seeing God's "hand at Instead he's teaching us something far work in the world about us" more basic. "[T]hose who are consid­ (Eucharistic Prayer C, BCP p. 372). ered worthy of a place in that age," More precisely, we know through Jesus tells us, "neither marry nor are experience that God mediates love to given in marriage." His reason is us through material things and clear: "Indeed they cannot die any­ through certain types of human rela­ more" (Luke 20:36-37). The sacramen­ tionships. We're all aware of the grace tal commitment of one Christian to which we receive through the sacra­ another, that is, is far more than two with FIBRE RUSH SEAT ments, yet sometimes we lose sight of people sharing love for each other. the fact that they're given to prepare What they share is God's mediated Since 1877 us for death and for our entry into the grace , in preparation for the time R.Geissler-l Inc. kingdom. when mediation will no longer be In baptism , God pours out his love needed. P.O. Box 432 upon us through the medium of water. Our life-long committed relation­ Old Greenwich, CT 06870 The relationship thereby established ships, whether in marriage or through Phone: (203) 637-5115 with him, as well as with our fellow vows to a religious community, are Christians throughout the world and additional ways that God prepares us throughout the ages, is irrevocable . It for death and for resurrection into the is, in fact, the very basis for our true kingdom. To the extent that we con­ citizenship in heaven. Likewise, in the tinue in unconditional love toward Eucharist , we're regularly nourished those whom God has placed in our by the very nature and substance of lives, we become increasingly enabled Christ himself - a preparation for our to pursue eternal relationships . It is feasting forever at the Lord's own precisely to the degree that we "honor wedding banquet. Baptism and the and keep the promises [we] make" to Eucharist prepare us for that day one another and before God (BCP, p. when we can joyously accept God's 425) that we become more and more love directly - when mediation will prepared "for salvation through sanc­ no longer be necessary. tification by the Spirit" (2 Thess. 2: 13). In today's gospel reading, Jesus isn't The sacraments of this present age St . 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