proper-18-2020-our-saviour.md
September 6, 2020: Ordinary Time, Proper 18 Opening It is good to be back with you at The Church of Our Saviour. Last time I met with you – you still looked like a computer screen. And here we are, back at the computer screen. But it’s about to change, isn’t it? Next week a new chapter is being forged as you return to modified in-person worship. It will be an exciting and adventurous time. An important time. You will be discovering a new way to be church, even as you seek to return to what you used to do. It will be the same, but different. It will provide unexpected experiences and spawn new hopes. “Faith, hope, and love abide – but the greatest of these is love.” We gather today on Labor Day weekend. Again, it’s not like any Labor Day weekend I have known. But that can be a serendipitous thing. To be unique. To be unlike anything we’ve known. Labor day, a day for parades and barbecues. Family gatherings and one last trip to the beach. But mostly that’s not what this Labor Day i...