Irreverently Reverend

  Fourth Sunday after Epiphany “As I was on my way and drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone around me.  7  And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’  8  And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’  9  Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.  10  And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’  11  And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus. 12  “And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,  13 ...

  Third Sunday of Ordinary Time On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.  8  There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.  9  And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.  10  But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”  11  And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.  12  And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.   (ESV)               In 1970, a pair of...