Pastor’s Page for March 2024
We begin the month of March still on our Lenten Journey and reflecting on a third covenant between God and humanity, the central one of Israel’s history: the gift of the law to those God freed from slavery.
The commandments begin with the statement that because God alone has freed us from the powers that oppressed us, we are to let nothing else claim first place in our lives. When Jesus throws the merchants out of the temple, he is defending the worship of God alone and rejecting the ways commerce and profit-making can become our gods. The Ten Commandments are essential to our baptismal call: centered first in God’s liberating love, we strive to live out justice and mercy in our communities and the world.
On the last day of March we will celebrate once again that Christ is risen!
Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever.
With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, we may feel astonished and confused, unsure of what to make of the empty tomb. But this is why we gather: to proclaim, witness, praise, and affirm the liberating reality of Christ’s death and resurrection. In word and feast, we celebrate God’s unending love, and depart to share this good news with all the world. And once again we will sing and shout, “Alleluia!”
Peace in the Journey!
Pastor Andy
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