Irreverently Reverend

  Fifth Sunday of Easter So what are we going to say? Should we continue sinning so grace will multiply?  2  Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it?  3  Or don’t you know that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  4  Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death , so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life.  5  If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his.  6  This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn’t be slaves to sin anymore,  7  because a person who has died has been freed from sin’s power.  8  But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him....

  Ordinary Time (Halloween)   But Christ has appeared as the high priest of the good things that have happened. He passed through the greater and more perfect meeting tent, which isn’t made by human hands (that is, it’s not a part of this world).  12  He entered the holy of holies once for all by his own blood, not by the blood of goats or calves, securing our deliverance for all time.  13  If the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkled ashes of cows made spiritually contaminated people holy and clean,  14  how much more will the blood of Jesus wash our consciences clean from dead works in order to serve the living God? He offered himself to God through the eternal Spirit as a sacrifice without any flaw. (CEB)               Happy Halloween!   It’s not a Church holiday, but it does land right on a Sunday this year.   Given that last Halloween was even more unusual than th...