The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18, 10 September 2017
Pentecost XIV, Proper 18, 10 September 2017 Track One: Exodus 12:1-14 Psalm 149 Track Two: Ezekiel 33:7-11 Psalm 119:33-40 Romans 13:8-14 St. Matthew 18:15-20 Background: Points of Origin Everyone, and by this I mean, every people, have a story (I am urged by others not to use the word myth ) that describes the realities from which they or their culture were sprung. Mircea Eliade reminded us that all story was sacred and that most stories were points of origin, explaining our place in the world. In many respects, the first reading from Track 1 is an etiological story, one that explains not only sacred ceremonial, but also its connection to even earlier points of origin and practice. It is interesting that we often continue in a tradition without ever exploring how what we celebrate came to be – what its roots are. The “passover” ceremonial, originally a harvest festival, is...