5 Epiphany 9 February 2020 A Annual Meeting, St. James Episcopal, Somerville, MA You are salt to the world.  And if salt becomes tasteless, how is its saltness to be restored?  It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot!  You are light for all the world.  A town that stands …

  From the Rev. Clarence E. Butler Malachi 3:1-4; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2.22-40 If you have been following closely the gospel lessons since the beginning of the period which we call Epiphany, today’s gospel story may seem out of place.  I would place into context why I say this.  Advent and Christmas hang together: Advent …

3 Epiphany, 26 January 2020 C Isaiah 9.1-4; I Cor. 1.10-18; Mt. 4.12-23; MLK,Jr. In the season of the Epiphany, we reacquaint ourselves with Jesus who is stepping out with a ministry that is to signify his divine nature. The gospels “credentialize” him. Our readings from the epistles of Paul purport to support those credentials …

2 Epiphany 19 January 2020 A from the Rev. Clarence E. Butler   Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.  Jn. 1:29 There is this game [that] I have played both in my youth as well as in my adulthood; perhaps you [have] as well.  The game is called …