[Magdalen] Zacchaeus? Who's that?

[Jay Weigel]

In the Lutheran church it was Reformation Sunday, so we got Martin Luther
and a rousing rendition of "A Mighty Fortress" with all the stops pulled
out.

I didn't know that Brother Martin had a total of 5 advanced degrees. Yikes!
But I did know that he sometimes hung out the diapers for his dear Kate
(Käthe) and just smiled when the neighbors laughed at him.

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:55 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>