Tag: Saints
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The Saints Who Walk Among Us
In biblical Greek the word that is most commonly translated as “saint” is hagios. Note that the word hagios is actually an adjective, not a noun. It is a word that describes. Its best translation is “sacred” or “holy.” In the Bible it is often used to describe God’s word … as St. Paul does,…
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We Are the Stuff of Stars
EMAIL DEVOTIONAL – WEEK of all Saints Sunday The iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones and the oxygen we breathe are the physical remains – ashes, if you will – of stars that lived and died long ago. ~~Ray Jayawardhama Or…
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Saints and Death … A Conversation
Traditional Sermon All Saints Sunday You have been here before. Saints … tears … the first Sunday in November … a litany naming those we have lost … the Beatitudes serving as our Gospel Lesson … All Saints Sunday. It is a day when we remember … formally through the…