SAFE CHURCH IS JOB ONE FOR EVERYONE
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME June 20, 2015 Church of the Beloved, Northglenn, Colorado Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Job 38:1; 8-11 Psalm 107:23-26; 28-31 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. For those of you who don’t know me, I am the Pastor of Saint Cecilia Catholic Community in Palm Springs, California, a place with triple-digit temperatures, very little rain, and no snow, ever. We’re a very new congregation. We started on April twelfth of this year, and we’re getting about twelve people at Sunday morning Mass. I can identify with Jesus in this story. Why? God wanted Jesus to be like us, becoming flesh in the person of Jesus. God’s intentional act was to be among us as one of us, to be a part of us, to feel the same things we do. Like Jesus, I have pastoral responsibilities for a new community of about a ...