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"SPIRITUAL COMMUNION"

 

O My Saviour, I cannot now adore Thee in the Holy Mysteries of the Altar. I cannot now receive Thee in the Blessed Sacrament of Thy Body and Blood.  Yet in spirit I would join myself with all the Faithful who in Thy Holy Church offer Thee the Sacrifice of Paise and Thanksgving.  Visit me, I pray, with Thy Mercy, Pardon, and Blessing. Fill me, I beseech Thee, with Faith, Love and Repentance.  And though unable to be present in Thy Holy Temple, so make up for my deficiency and fill me with Thy Grace that, henceforth I may ever live to Thine Honour and Glory, Who livest and reignest  with the Father and the Holy Ghost, Once God forever and ever. Amen

 

EASTER SERMON. 2020

 

WE ARE NOT CELEBRATING EASTER SUNDAY, IN THE CHAPEL, THIS YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE CORONA VIRUS EPIDEMIC, OUR PHYSICAL CELEBRATION AS A CONGREGATIONIS IS DELAYED.

IT IS IRONIC THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP THE LORD IN THE TOMB FOR THIS ADDITIONAL SECULAR TIME…………………..AND I SEE A MODERN DAY PARABLE . DON’T WE DO THAT YEAR ROUND AFTER EASTER?……………. WE KEEP THE LORD IN HIS TOMB.

SOME YEARS AGO, A SCHOLAR OF ANCIENT HISTORY SAID, “IF AN EDUCATED GREEK OR ROMAN HAD BEEN TOLD THAT SOMEONE HAD BEEN RAISED FROM THE DEAD, HIS FIRST QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN, “HOW DO WE GET HIM BACK INTO HIS GRAVE AGAIN.?”

 

SADLY, AND UNFORTUNATLY, I AM AFRAID MANY PEOPLE ASK THE SAME QUESTION, TODAY. WE SHUT HIM UP AND IGNORE HIM, ISNT THAT THE SAME AS PUTTING HIM BACK IN THE GRAVE AND ROLLING THE STONE BACK, KEEPING THE STONE, SEALED, BETWEEN YOU AND CHRIST.

 

TODAY IN THIS CORONA VIRUS CRISIS, MANY ARE CLAIMING END OF THE WORLD, THE APOCALYPSE. REMEMBER THE END OF THE WORLD OCCURS WHEN YOU DIE!

 

I AM NOT GOING OUT ON THAT LIMB. HOWEVER, JOKING WITH A FRIEND RECENTLY, I DID COMMENT, THAT GOD SAID HE WOULD NOT DESTROY THE WORLD BY FLOOD, AGAIN. BUT HE DID NOT SAY HE WOULDN’T ALLOW US TO DESTROY IT OURSELVES, WITH A FINANCIAL MELTDOWN AND COLLAPSE OF THE ECONOMY OR OTHER METHODS.  WITH ALL THAT SAID, MY EASTER MESSAGE THIS YEAR IS NOT ABOUT THE RESURECTION OF OUR LORD, WHICH WE CELEBRATE TODAY AND HAVE FOR OVER 2,000 YEARS SINCE THE HISTORICAL OCCASION.  TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR RESURECTION FROM THIS EARTH IN 2020, ABOUT YOU AND YOUR RESURECTION FROM THE DEAD AND INTO ETERNAL LIFE. BECOMING PRACTISING CHRISTIANS NOT JUST CHRISTIAN IN NAME. AS C.S. LEWIS SAID: “TO BECOME LITTLE CHRIST”

 

MY FRIEND, FATHER RUTLER RECENTLY WROTE.

“DEATH IS NOTHING NEW. UNTIL NOW, EVERYONE HAS DONE IT. IT IS PRELUDE TO A PERMANENT REALM. WE IGNORE THE PROMISE THAT ACCOMPANIES THE WARNING: “AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE.”

 

CORINTHIANS 15:12-19 (KJV)TELLS US “BUT IF IT IS PREACHED THAT CHRIST HAS BEEN RAISED FROM THE DEAD, HOW CAN SOME OF YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD? IF THERE IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, THEN NOT EVEN CHRIST HAS BEEN RAISED. AND IF CHRIST HAS NOT BEEN RAISED, OUR PREACHING IS USELESS AND SO IS YOUR FAITH. WE OF ALL PEOPLE MOST TO BE PITIED.”

 

I AM NOT HERE TODAY TO DEBATE JESUS CHRIST RESURECTION FROM THE DEAD. FACT, HE WAS DEAD AND ON THE THIRD DAY, HE ROSE FROM THE TOMB AND I AM NOT HERE TO DEBATE ETERNAL LIFE, HE WHO ROSE AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, PROMISED IT.

I BEGAN TODAY’S MESSAGE THAT I CAN NOT PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD. . BUT I CAN AND WILL DEFINTALY TELL EACH OF YOU WHEN THE END FOR YOUR LIFE WILL OCCUR. WRITE THIS DOWN, IT WILL BE SOMETIME BETWEEN TODAY AND 98 YEARS, GUARANTEED. WE ARE AN OLDER CONGREGATION SO ANY ONE OF US COULD DIE AT ANYTIME (AS COULD ANYONE ,ANYWHERE) THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OR OUR PARISH IS 2. IF HE LIVES TO BE 100 THEN WE WILL ALL HAVE REACHED THE END OF THIS WORLD IN THE NEXT 98 YEARS. HAVE I GOT YOUR ATTENTION? SHOULDN’T YOU START MAKING PLANS FOR YOUR JOURNEY TO PARADISE TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH JESUS.  ASK YOURSELF, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH OUR LORD WHEN YOU SPEND SO LITTLE TIME WITH HIM IN THIS EARTHLY LIFE?

 

SO WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO YOU THIS EASTER, EASTER DINNER, YOUR 401K, YOUR HEALTH, OR YOUR ETERNAL SOUL IN THE RESURECTION ON YOUR RESURECTION DAY. DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME, EASTER IS ABOUT THE GRAND MIRACLE THE CELEBRATION OF OUR LORD’S DEPARTURE FROM THE GRAVE. AS I SAID, FACT, HISTORY IT HAPPENED, IT HAPPENED IN THE DIVINE PLAN FOR OUR REDMEPTION, AND WITH THE BENEFIT OF ETERNAL LIFE IN OUR RESURECTION.  THIS IS NOT A MATTER OF FAITH AND WORKS IT IS A MATTER OF IF YOU HAVE THE FAITH YOU DARN SURE WILL DO HIS WORKS!

 

WE READ IN JAMES 2:16-18 “EVEN SO FAITH, IF IT HATH NOT WORKS IS DEAD, BEING ALONE.. YES, A MAN MAY SAY, THOU HAST FAITH AND I HAVE WORKS. SHOW ME THY FAITH, WITHOUT THY WORKS AND I WILL SHOW THEE MY FAITH BY MY WORKS” (KJV)

 

THE ANTOMEMENT MEANS “TO MAKE US AT ONE WITH HIM.” HE HAS DONE HIS WORK……………………….. TIME WE DID OURS.

REMEMBER THE ATONEMENT IS A LIFE LONG PROCESS TOWARD SANCTIFICATION (THE PROCESS OF MAKING HOLY) NOTICE IT IS A PROCESS AND A LIFE LONG JOURNEY, AS WE PROGRESS TO OUR LORD. PEOPLE MAY ASK, WHEN WERE YOU SAVED?. YOU WERE SAVED OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO ON A CROSS ON A HILL CALLED GOLGATHA WHEN OUR LORD DIED FOR YOU. YOU ONLY HAVE TO ACCEPT IT AND FOLLOW HIM.

 

I AM NOT TRYING TO SCARE YOU JUST ASKING YOU TO PREPARE FOR THAT DAY. BECAUSE THE HOUR IS LATE!  WHEN SHOULD YOU START PREPARING FOR THE NEXT LIFE. ………………….YESTERDAY!

 

REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES TO LIVE WITH YOU. TO MOVE IN AND BRING HIS FURNITURE (GOD‘S FURNITURE) FOR HIS FURNITURE TO FIT YOU MUST MOVE MOST OF YOUR FURNITURE OUT. SELF, PRIDE, EVNY, LUST, HATE…. ETC. NO ROOM FOR YOURS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT’S. THE SAD PART OF THIS STORY TO MANY OF US ARE UNWILLING TO PART WITH OUR FURNITURE WE ARE ATTACHED TO IT, THAT OF THE WORLDLY ASK YOUR SELF, WHAT IS THE 1 (ONE) THING YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE WITH YOU TO HEAVEN. THEN ASK YOURSELF IF YOU WOULD BE ALLOWED TO BRING THAT 1 (ONE) ITEM IN THE HEAVENLY GATES WITH YOU ………………………GET IT?

 

PRAY THE PERFECT PRAYER, WHICH OUR LORD GAVE US, IT ALWAYS ENDS WITH “THY WILL BE DONE “. ARE YOUR PRAYERS ENDING IN “THY WILL BE DONE” OR MY WILL BE DONE? IT IS TIME WE PRAYED FOR HIS WILL IN OUR LIVES, LISTNED AND THEN FOLLOWED SO THIS EASTER THE MESSAGE IS ABOUT YOU! ACCEPT THE LORD, FOLLOW HIM, COMPLETELY, BE A PRACTISING CHRISTIAN. ROLL BACK THE STONE OF AND OPEN THE DOOR TO THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD. AND YOU TO0 ONE DAY WILL BE RESURECTED WITH OUR LORD FOR A LIFE OF ETERNAL WONDER AND JOY.

 

A NEW, YOUNG CHRISTIAN COUPLE CAME TO THE BISHOP AND SAID: IT IS SO COMPLICATED AND LONG, THE BIBLE. WHERE DO WE START? THE WISE OLD BISHOP SAID: TAKE OUR LORD’S GREAT COMMAND: “LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART AND SOUL AND MIND AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOUR SELF, WHEN YOU GET THAT DOWN, COME BACK FOR ANOTHER LESSON.”

 

THIS EASTER, MAY THE LOVE OF GOD, THE MERCY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE POWER OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT BE WITH YOU THIS RESURECTION DAY AND AT YOUR RESURECTION DAY.

 

Father Michael Robertson

 

O MERCIFUL God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor desirest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all who know thee not as thou art revealed in the Gospel of thy Son. Take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy fold, that they may be made one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

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