[Magdalen] Pentecost 2016 sermon

[Grace Cangialosi]

Of course you're right, Ginga, and that's an area where we need to be more intentional.
This may be tangential, but at the coffee hour on Sunday, I "happened" to sit across from a woman who was German with a Jewish mother, and who had escaped the Nazis. She started talking and shared much of her personal and very painful story. We were the only two sitting at that table. Being somewhat slow on the uptake, I found myself wondering on the way home what had brought all of that on..... Then yesterday morning, I realized, of course, that it was the references to Niemöller and the Nazis. You never know who is sitting out there on Sunday morning!

> On May 17, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Grace.  Excellent message, well spoken.  As I listened, I
> thought not only of how 'we' need to welcome, accept, and serve those
> outside our congregational borders.  I thought that we also are called to
> welcome those who cross the thresholds of our church...not only welcome but
> include into our parish life.  Get to know them and serve with them.
> 
> Ginga
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Michael Canning <mjbcanning at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> It's working ... as I listen ... very crisp and clear ...
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>>> On May 16, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have no idea if this will work...
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8LgQAzGeqDveXdoWnVTRm9VZWZIQWpHcTlpQnpoU1pFNGNz
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Grace Cangialosi
>>> Ruckersville, VA
>>> 
>>> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
>>> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
>>> Bonhoeffer*
>>