Sunday Sermon 5/25/14

In today's gospel, Christ discusses His commandments, love and the promise of the Holy Spirit.
"I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always,
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept,
because it neither sees nor knows him."

The risk of objectivity, the limits of materialism, the importance of spirituality--an undefinable, analyzable thing--Christ sees this spiritual essence as crucial for His followers after He is gone. This objectified spirituality is not His legacy, it is His means by which "the hammer of chaos is stilled."


 Now falls the night of the world:   O Spirit moving upon the waters,
Your peace instill.
Bring peace to the famine of the heart and lips,
and to the long loneliness
of those who yearn to bring back sight to the blind.
You are the Night when the long hunt for nothing is at rest
and in the human breast the hammer of chaos is stilled.
Be then the sleep when Judas gives again the childish kiss
that once his mother knew –
and wash the stain
from the darkened hands of the universal Cain.  Amen.
--Dame Edith Sitwell