[Magdalen] Zacchaeus? Who's that?

[ME Michaud]

The rector, practicing what he likes to call Homiletical Tapas, remembered
a preacher he knew (and I knew who he was talking about) who claimed that
it was Jesus who was short, so people had to climb into trees to see him.
-M

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is a rare Sunday on which the Revised Common Lectionary has a
> completely different Gospel from the one in the BCP 1979 lectionary
> (which we still use). We had Luke 21:5-19 with Jesus talking about the
> end times and how not one stone will be left on another (I immediately
> thought of poor Norcia, in Italy, birthplace of St. Benedict, where
> the basilica at the place of his birth was "thrown down" this morning,
> except for the facade, in a strong earthquake). "By your endurance you
> will gain your souls."
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois U
>