Texts: Isaiah 61: 1-4, 8-11; Luke 1: 46-55
In Agnieszka Holland's film The Third Miracle, Ed Harris plays Father Frank Shore, a priest who has lost his faith in both himself and God and who is pulled out of his drunken self-pity to investigate a series of occurrences following the death of an immigrant woman that are seen as miracles by the community at St. Stanislaus Church where a statue of the Virgin supposedly weeps. Several years ago, several of us watched this film which explores the meaning of faith and redemption. It asks not only about miracles we see but the unseen miracles that lead to lives of love and service.
My old professor Roland Bainton used to say that Luther said there were three miracles of the Incarnation: the first was that God loved humankind enough to offer us the possibility of re...
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 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" MICAH 6:8 NRSV |
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