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Our Lady of Fandom | Sunday Morning

Apr 03, 2011 10:49

A near constant in the past twenty years for Bobby was church on Sunday. The past ten or so had made Sundays the busiest day of his week, and while he supposed he could have gone off-island to continue that trend, he felt called instead to the old stone church on the island.

It wasn't nearly appropriate to celebrate a Eucharist in a church he was ( Read more... )

robert mccallister, dimitri belikov, rosemarie hathaway, castiel, church

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Sermon notlikejack April 3 2011, 14:51:53 UTC

"And so Jesus tells us to be perfect," he said, working through a sermon that was barely half-finished. "It's an impossible idea. Even Jesus wasn't perfect. He lost his temper, snapped at the Pharisees, got frustrated with his own disciples. And if Jesus, the one we call Son of God can't be perfect, how can we be? Doesn't that just become another in a long list of requirements that we struggle to fill every day? One more brick in a load we can barely seem to carry? 'Be perfect just as your Heavenly Father is perfect.' Suddenly it's less a possibility and more just another way we fail every day.

But there is another way to think of it - the word translated here as “perfect” is teleios in the Greek. And teleios, in addition to perfect, also means whole, full, mature, dedicated, undivided, or even actualized. Teleios is what we are when we become the person God created us to be. And this word teleios is a variant of the word telos, which means end or goal. Our end or goal, is of course, the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom with ( ... )

Re: Sermon scruffnfeathers April 3 2011, 19:29:29 UTC

Castiel sat towards the back of the church, marveling at the novelty of viewing a service from this end.

Re: Sermon guardian_god April 3 2011, 20:08:34 UTC

As much as this was not the church Dimitri had attended during his time in Fandom, it was Sunday and that called for some quiet time of reflection.

Amazing how Fandom actually allowed him to sit in quiet for a few moments. It was a miracle.

Re: Sermon guardianborn April 3 2011, 21:11:39 UTC

"You are so predictable," Rose murmured as she slid into the seat next to him. What? This was nearly a tradition.

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After ze Service notlikejack April 3 2011, 14:53:01 UTC

But of course Bobby is around if any wish to talk, side eye, whaatever.

Re: After ze Service scruffnfeathers April 3 2011, 19:31:02 UTC

"Excellent service," said the scruffy looking man who sounded (and possibly was) vaguely stoned. "Really, really just excellent. Very interesting interpretation of the text."

Re: After ze Service notlikejack April 3 2011, 19:41:07 UTC

"Thank you," Bobby said, recognizing the vaguely stonedness (after growing up with his mom, how could he not?) but unconcerned about it. "I'm still working on it, I think, but I'm glad it seemed to make sense."

Re: After ze Service scruffnfeathers April 3 2011, 19:53:56 UTC

"Yes, yes, totally," Castiel assured him. "I like the bit about living like you've already got the Kingdom of Heaven. 'Cause I gotta tell you, Heaven's pretty cool? But Earth? Earth is just fantastic."

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OOC notlikejack April 3 2011, 14:54:33 UTC

I have a priest. How can I not make a church post!

Also said sermon was partially adapted from one given by Rev. Kit Carlson because sadly I know not enough Greek to do that.