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St. Andrew’s Episcopal ChurchThe Road – March 22, 2015 5th Sunday of Lent
The Coast: Love’s Embrace
A Prayer for the Future of the Human RaceBCP p. 828
O God our heavenly Father, you have blessed us and given us dominion over all the earth: Increase our reverence before the mystery of life; and give us new insight into your purposes for the human race, and for wisdom and determination in making provision for its future accordance with your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.
A People’s History of Christianity April 12 – Christianity as a Way of Life & Devotion: The Love of God April 26 – Ethics: The Love of Neighbor
May 3 - Christianity as Spiritual Architecture & Devotion: Paradise
Restored May 10 – Ethics: Who is my Neighbor? May 17 - Christianity as Living Words & Devotion:
Speaking of Faith May 24 - Ethics: Walking the Talk
June 7 - Christianity as a Quest for Truth June 14 - Devotion: The Quest for Light June 21 - Ethics: Kingdom Quest June 28 - The River
The Coast
The boy has never seen an ocean with his real eyes. He believes that when his father and he finally arrive, there will be other children and families.
Like Huckleberry Finn or the The Odyssey, the purpose of the story is not the destination, it is what transforms that characters on their journey.
In almost everyway the coast is a disappointment (Read p. 215 – 219)
The Coast It is at the coast where the mantle of
tradition is passed onto the next generation. The father’s health is declining and he can no longer go on.
The Coast is the destination, but it is not the end of the story.
They find a boat, the name of which hin English, is the “Bird of Hope,” and it is there that the father, after swimming toward it finds all kinds of plunder.
He swims back to the coast with some of what he’s found and the father and son have a conversation (Read pp. 242-246).
The Death of the Father
Read p. 281 – 286 Watch 1:33 – 1:44
Easter
The Third day after the Father dies, the boy encounters a resurrection – in the meeting of this new family, who take him in and love him.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4: 7
