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Our Return to the Nave [Proper 26B - Mark 12:28-34]

  The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Mark 12:28-34   Our Return to the Nave   Well, we’re inside.   This is an exciting day, one we have long awaited.   Today, for the first time in many months, I can gesture with both hands while I preach, like God intended, without having to worry about my pages flying off into Tejon Street.   I don’t to have to wonder if the altar book will turn its pages in the middle of a chant.   I will no longer spend my Sunday mornings envious of your bundled heads and sunglassed eyes and supported backs.     Because we are, after many months, back in the nave.   I want to thank you for your patience, for your understanding, and for your trust.   I know it wasn’t always easy.   But I do appreciate your willingness to be inconvenienced for the greater good, to love our members more than your comfort.   I know today that I don’t need to say too much about the Gospel lesson, because I have see...