Author: Fr Matthew+
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Sermon on the Last Sunday after Epiphany + 26 February, 2017 + Transfiguration
What are you afraid of? As a child, I was afraid of the usual things that kids dread: the dark, dark houses, the high dive at the swimming pool, swimming in water where I couldn’t see the bottom, going to bed at night with my closet door left open and worst of all—my bedroom totally…
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Being Mary, treasure these memories in your heart, you’ll need them later.
Being Mary, treasure these memories in your heart, you’ll need them later. The Rev. Matthew Cowden, Saint Michael & All Angels, South Bend 4 PM pageant service Christmas Eve December 24, 2016 (Homily just after the children and youth pageant.) I am so grateful to our pageant leaders, organizers and readers, to our wise…
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The Land of Sky and Wind @StandingRock
“Where are the graves? Where are the sacred circles? We can dig around them to build this pipeline.” So say the Dakota pipeline builders. Is this how any white man would treat Gettysburg? When a people’s history has taken place on the land, whole areas of land are sacred, not just particular spots. Racism is…
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Prayerful, Peaceful, Non-Violent, Lawful @StandingRock
“You are protecting a pipeline that was put in place because of a church doctrine. I am here to say that we are wrong.” That’s what we’re doing tomorrow. We are clergy coming to say we were wrong. Fr John Floberg of St James’ spoke to Dakota Pipeline officers today about our clergy witness walk tomorrow.…
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Conflict @StandingRock
Doing conflict well matters. When all this is over at #StandingRock, after whatever resolution comes and the crowds go home and people stop checking in on FaceBook, the long term damage will remain. The relationships between Native Peoples and the State have been set back 50 years. This afternoon Brian Grantz and Paul Nesta I heard from Patrick Kelly at…
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Zacchaeus, Luke’s Gospel in Miniature
We are almost done with Luke. The church year is almost over, Advent is around the corner and a whole new cycle will begin with the Gospel according to Matthew. We proclaimed the concluding chapters of Luke’s gospel already, during holy week, Easter and Pentecost earlier this year. We will be concluding our hearings from…
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Paul’s House Arrest Apartments Discovered?
“Do you know what they’ve found below the palace?” We were staying at the Anglican Centre in Rome this summer. The Centre is hosted in a series of apartments in the palace of Prince Doria-Pamphilj. These were given to the Anglican Centre fifty years ago, shortly after Vatican II as a way to foster Anglican-Roman Catholic…
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On Sabbattical
Heifitz suggests “getting off the dance floor and up on the balcony” as an analogy for gaining a clearer perspective of what’s going on for better strategic planning. Perhaps even better, Covey says that it’s essential to take time to “sharpen the saw” or “climb the trees” to survey the territory and make sure you’re…