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Sunday, March 9. 2014

Homily for a 3 year-old family friend

"Christianity is no philosophy..." From the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham Alabama, last December, the goose-bump-producing funeral homily here.


Posted by Bird Dog at 05:36 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thank you for that BD. Still grieving the loss of my brother and father from about 4 moths ago. These words lifted my heart.

I posted this on FB hoping it will comfort others.
#1 Brian in NC on 2014-03-09 09:03 (Reply)
"May Jesus Christ be glorified from generation to generation."

AMEN
#2 Tim on 2014-03-09 10:04 (Reply)
3 months…..
#3 Brian in NC on 2014-03-09 10:20 (Reply)
Needed that, thank you!
#4 ama on 2014-03-09 10:44 (Reply)
I am grateful BD. More than you know.

Brian in NC: what is FB?
#5 faculty wife on 2014-03-09 12:03 (Reply)
faculty wife. Facebook is instagram for old people.
#6 Brian in NC on 2014-03-09 16:31 (Reply)
The phrase in the homily that really got to me was, "Mr. Worldly Wise Man." Going forward, let us not be that man, preening, self congratulatory and insisting that our preferences are truths.
The preaching in the south, in my experiences visiting Columbus/Fort Benning and Montgomery, AL, is more often than not brilliant and on point, and this homily is no exception.
#7 MissyW on 2014-03-09 17:59 (Reply)

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