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Page THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday January 18 Religion Epiphany a moment of recognition and response to reality By JIM RYAN Second Sunday In Ordinary Time Jan 20 1991 Gospel of John 13512 The Dearest Freshness We cant get away from John the Baptist Here he is again pointing the finger at Jesus Last week we saw Jesus bap tism at the hands of the Baptist this week he directs two of his own disciples to follow Jesus Last week we celebrated an epiphany at the baptism of Jesus when the voice of God said You are my Son the Beloved week we have a minor epiphany John the Baptist says Look there Is the Lamb of God The intention of the author of the Gospel of John is that each of us will have a of epiphany when we will say in spired by God This is the Lamb of God Religion and Reality by Jim Ryan Some Equations Epiphany is a moment of recognition of and response to reality Let us make the equation clear God equals reality For John the equation must be expanded Christ equals God equalsreality Two Singers A Poet and Reality Bette Midler sings that God looks on from a distance This is true if what you want is a metaphor for perspective perspective meaning truth But its false if you mean that God is distant God is closer than our own breath even closer than our own pulse to quote another singer whose collected works have been for a long time 150 Psalms My favorite poet GM Hopkins writes The world is charged with the grandeur of God My favorite reads Generations have trod have trod have trod And all is seared with trade bleared smeared with toil And wears mans smudge and shares mans smell the soil Is bare now nor can foot feel being shod Bible Digest And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned into fables 2 Timothy Do you want to hear just what you want to hear or are you seek ing the truth The Bible declares the truth Read it and believe it being abominable and disobe dient and unto every good work reprobate Titus We are saved by faith in Christ Our faith will produce good works Do- you have a real faith in Christ Then came the disciples to Jesus apart and said Why could not we cast him out and Jesus said unto them Because of your unbelief for verily I say unto you If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed Ye shall say unto this mountain Remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be im possible unto you Matthew Faith in Jesus will help you to tackle the impossible too Have faith in God Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy arid not with grief for that is un profitable for you Hebrews It is important to obey and respect authority The Lord pro motes order not chaos Not by works of righteousness which we have done but ac cording to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost Titus 35 We dont work our way to Heaven We are saved by the grace of God Have you accepted Gods gift of salvation As a dog retumeth to his vomit so a fool retumeth to his folly Proverbs 2611 Are we learning the lessons from our mistakes If not we are not in the best of company Learn to trust in the Lord and seek His wisdom for your life For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods Psalm Your problem is not too big or too hard for God He can and will take care of you This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it Psalm Enjoy today Its a gift from the Lord He has a wonderful plan for your life Submit yourselves therefore to God Resist the devil and he will flee from you James47 There is power in submitting our lives to Jesus When Jesus is Lord of our lives there is glorious victory They profess that they know God but in works they deny him For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are temp ted Hebrews Call on the Lord when tempta tions are at your door He knows what its like but He also knows how to help you overcome He will give you the strength to be an But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name John 1 The only way to become a child of God is to receive Jesus into your heart as Savior and Lord Will you trust Him today This could be the greatest day of your life Arrows J UNITED CHURCH SUNDAY WORSHIP SUNDAY SCHOOL Mil New church sign Members of St Andrews United Church on Howard Belli putting the finishing touches on the Road were busy Jan weekend placing the sign designed and put together by members of the new church sign Pictured left to right are bar Pep- Building Committee with assistance from the Sign per Greg Howard Frank Hannah and kneeling hoppe Passive Reducing Salon IN HILLS Sawd Body Treatment 8734907 Entrance Georgetown The A Store JUUBOmiTE SHRIMP is NFU KIPPERS 249 Li HADDOCK nam 579 in MOORE PARK PLAZA SI Georgetown Ont But the best lines are And for all this nature is never spent There lives the dearest freshness deep down things Hopkins and the writer of the Gospel of John have the same sense of reality epiphanies are available to all Even though as Hopkins writes generations have trod have trod have trod A Prayer As we enter Ordinary Time in the liturgical cycle treading the scriptural paths that many have trod before us let us look for new light and new life to flare up A Point of Clarification The liturgical year is made up of fiftytwo weeks thirtyfour of which are called Ordinary Time Along with these thirtyfour weeks there are two extraor dinary cycles Christmas and Easter Each extraordinary cy cle has preparatory time before the central time Advent and Lent and wind down time after the central time Ordinary Time cushions and frames these two extraordinary times Were entering into four weeks of Ordinary Time now before entering Lent and Easter But dont worry Theres nothing ordinary about ordinary time We too like Andrew and Simon could have our 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