Try posting this note on your office door / Facebook / Twitter / blog / voice mail / memo to your Board: "Gone to the fields to be lovely. / Be back when I'm through with blooming." And say a grateful, gleeful prayer of thanks all the while for the poetry of Lynn Ungar.
Year B
Pentecost 8
July 22, 2012
Sunday between July 17 and July 23 inclusive
Proper 11, Ordinary Time 16
Click here to read the complete Holy Textures backgroun commentary on Mark 6:30-34, 53-56.
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Sermon by the Rev. Dr. George Hermanson, "Showing Up."
Verses 30-32 are a wonderful lesson for the start of the summer season here in the Northern Hemisphere. Especially Jesus' invitation in Verse 31:
Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.
Thank you Jesus.
* Link to Amazon.com Bibliography for Bruce J. Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh, Social Science Commentary on ... The Synoptic Gospels; The Gospel of John; The Book of Acts; The Letters of Paul; The Book of Revelation; and others.
+ Link to Amazon.com Bibliography for Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, Jewish Annotated New Testament, The Bible With and Without Jesus, Short Stories by Jesus, Entering the Passion of Jesus, and others.
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