The Kyrie is possibly the oldest part of Christian liturgy, used in the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as in Roman and Protestant rites. Kyrie Eleison is a Latin transliteration of the Greek Lord, have mercy on me.
Today’s Gospel reading gives us ten lepers who are standing a bit of a distance away from Jesus (as prescribed by Jewish law and custom) and shouting at him, “Lord, have mercy on me!”
Our OT lesson story of the healing of Naaman and the healing of 10 lepers are very unique healing stories we hear today. Let us see why they are so unique. Naaman was a commander of the army. He was a foreigner. He was a mighty warrior, but suffered from leprosy. The slave girl who was responsible for the healing was a Samaritan prisoner of war a servant of Naaman’s wife. She had been torn from her home and reduced to a slave in …show more content…
This week when you receive the time and talent sheets, I want to encourage you to pray and see in what ways you could share your gifts to serve God with gratitude and thanksgiving.
Let me tell you a story that illustrates what I am saying. It is the story of a man by the name of Pastor Rinkhart. He was pastor of a church in Prussia from 1619 to 1649, during the Thirty Years War in Europe. From the year the war began until the year the war ended, he was the pastor in the same walled city. His was a walled town, so all the refugees from the thirty years war flocked into his city to find safety inside the city walls as the battles raged around them.
His town was overrun with poverty, the plague, and all the perils of war. It was awful. It was hell on earth. By the end of the thirty years war, he was the only pastor left in town alive; all the other pastors had died, so he alone was to bury the plagued villagers and refugees from
Today’s Gospel reading gives us ten lepers who are standing a bit of a distance away from Jesus (as prescribed by Jewish law and custom) and shouting at him, “Lord, have mercy on me!”
Our OT lesson story of the healing of Naaman and the healing of 10 lepers are very unique healing stories we hear today. Let us see why they are so unique. Naaman was a commander of the army. He was a foreigner. He was a mighty warrior, but suffered from leprosy. The slave girl who was responsible for the healing was a Samaritan prisoner of war a servant of Naaman’s wife. She had been torn from her home and reduced to a slave in …show more content…
This week when you receive the time and talent sheets, I want to encourage you to pray and see in what ways you could share your gifts to serve God with gratitude and thanksgiving.
Let me tell you a story that illustrates what I am saying. It is the story of a man by the name of Pastor Rinkhart. He was pastor of a church in Prussia from 1619 to 1649, during the Thirty Years War in Europe. From the year the war began until the year the war ended, he was the pastor in the same walled city. His was a walled town, so all the refugees from the thirty years war flocked into his city to find safety inside the city walls as the battles raged around them.
His town was overrun with poverty, the plague, and all the perils of war. It was awful. It was hell on earth. By the end of the thirty years war, he was the only pastor left in town alive; all the other pastors had died, so he alone was to bury the plagued villagers and refugees from