Jesus this evening has raised Lazarus. He’s predicted his own death. He knows its coming. Still he goes to pray that it might happen another way. That we might hear his message, that those who’ve followed him and heard him speaking clearly in the synagogues will love one another. But they don’t. We don’t.
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Almighty God, we pray for your church and all who serve you including Michael, our Presiding Bishop; Melissa, our Bishop Provisional; and Joseph, our vicar. We pray for your servants everywhere, especially for the Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan. In this diocese we pray for Christ Church, Anacortes; and St. Paul, Bellingham.
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God-made-flesh in Jesus joins us in our humanity so much that he joins us in death. While Jesus is feeling abandoned God stands in solidarity with those who die senseless deaths. While Isabel Andrade mourned the impending death of her daughter and granddaughter God was with her knowing the pain of losing a child.
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“Before the Church hears about Jesus’ death we hear about God opening graves breathing life into long-dead bones with long-dead muscle, sinew, and skin. As we come to the end of Lent we hear about opening graves because that’s what Lent is about.”
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Jesus is the living water who knows everything we’ve ever done and calls us still to the well of that living water… Fasting, the most well known practice, is done so that we’re ready to meet Jesus by the well, to meet him by the font at the Easter Vigil… Jesus has come to bring us and to be for us a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.
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Let us pray for the Church, for its witness, mission, and ministry. Pray that life be breathed into it. Let us pray for the Church, for its leaders and unity. Pray for Francis; the bishop of Rome, Bartholomew, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople; Justin, the Archbishop of Canterbury; Michael, the Presiding Bishop; Melissa and Brian;
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Almighty God, we pray for Your Church and all who follow You. Today we especially pray for The Anglican Church of Southern Africa; St. Paul’s, Seattle; and St. Peter’s, Seattle. Guide the leaders of Your Church, especially our presiding Bishop Michael; our Bishop Provisional Melissa; and our priest Joseph. Let all Christians be known by
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Creator God, bless the faithful, those struggling to be faithful, our own church community of St. Hilda St. Patrick, and religious leaders around the world. We ask your blessings especially for St. John the Baptist, Seattle, and Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, as well as for the Church of South India (United) God of love, hear
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