St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - weekly talks

Holy Week, 2014, Maundy Thursday Homily: John 13.

In Gethsemane, Christ makes his final resolve to achieve the Grand Reversal. Once in a garden our communion with our Creator was lost; now, in a garden, our Creator says "yes" to the Father's plan of restored communion. The extreme need for redemption is illustrated in the disciple's failure to pray and stay the course. Their flight and betrayal of Jesus reveals the utter need for one fully-human and fully-divine to step into our place and represent fallen humanity, undoing the curse of death placed upon all creation.

The setting is the garden of gethsemane. Gethsemane is a Hebrew word for "olive press. The production of olive oil involved a huge, weighty stone, the gethsemane, bearing its weight down upon the olives. Christ is taking upon himself the weight of the whole world's sin; he is crushed under its weight. He invites us to participate in this sin-bearing ... through prayer and forbearance towards the bruised and broken. Christ died for the ungodly that he might bring us to the Father. He invites us into his High Priestly ministry, to join with him in his passion. If we suffer with him, says St. Paul, we shall also reign with him.

In Gethsemane, Christ makes his final resolve to achieve the Grand Reversal. Once in a garden our communion with our Creator was lost; now, in a garden, our Creator says "yes" to the Father's plan of restored communion. The extreme need for redemption is illustrated in the disciple's failure to pray and stay the course. Their flight and betrayal of Jesus reveals the utter need for one fully-human and fully-divine to step into our place and represent fallen humanity, undoing the curse of death placed upon all creation.

The setting is the garden of gethsemane. Gethsemane is a Hebrew word for "olive press. The production of olive oil involved a huge, weighty stone, the gethsemane, bearing its weight down upon the olives. Christ is taking upon himself the weight of the whole world's sin; he is crushed under its weight. He invites us to participate in this sin-bearing ... through prayer and forbearance towards the bruised and broken. Christ died for the ungodly that he might bring us to the Father. He invites us into his High Priestly ministry, to join with him in his passion. If we suffer with him, says St. Paul, we shall also reign with him.

In Gethsemane, Christ makes his final resolve to achieve the Grand Reversal. Once in a garden our communion with our Creator was lost; now, in a garden, our Creator says "yes" to the Father's plan of restored communion. The extreme need for redemption is illustrated in the disciple's failure to pray and stay the course. Their flight and betrayal of Jesus reveals the utter need for one fully-human and fully-divine to step into our place and represent fallen humanity, undoing the curse of death placed upon all creation.

The setting is the garden of gethsemane. Gethsemane is a Hebrew word for "olive press. The production of olive oil involved a huge, weighty stone, the gethsemane, bearing its weight down upon the olives. Christ is taking upon himself the weight of the whole world's sin; he is crushed under its weight. He invites us to participate in this sin-bearing ... through prayer and forbearance towards the bruised and broken. Christ died for the ungodly that he might bring us to the Father. He invites us into his High Priestly ministry, to join with him in his passion. If we suffer with him, says St. Paul, we shall also reign with him.

Katherine speaks of the Christian's comprehensive inheritance in Christ.

Katherine speaks of the Christian's comprehensive inheritance in Christ.

Bishop Stewart shares from his heart before consecrating the Diocese Deans and Canon Theologian. Recorded on iPhone at the Upper Midwest Diocese Clergy and Spouses Retreat.

Bishop Stewart shares from his heart before consecrating the Diocese Deans and Canon Theologian. Recorded on iPhone at the Upper Midwest Diocese Clergy and Spouses Retreat.

Katherine speaks of the Christian's comprehensive inheritance in Christ.

Bishop Stewart shares from his heart before consecrating the Diocese Deans and Canon Theologian. Recorded on iPhone at the Upper Midwest Diocese Clergy and Spouses Retreat.