Chrism Mass of Holy Week 2024
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Isaiah 6:1-8 Chrism Mass 2024 You are here today because someone spoke a word of God into your life. Someone planted the seed. Someone, at some point, became the first person who was convinced you were called to be set apart. To be a priest. Or to be a deacon. To be an ordained minister of the Gospel. For me, it was my paternal grandparents: Bob and Sharon Williamson. And they first spoke that word into my life when I was just a boy. The dawning days of my vocation were not of biblical proportions. I didn’t get the divine drama of the scene in Isaiah, no sweetness of temple incense or angelic vision; my lips were not singed with a live coal. Instead, what I remember most of those early days is a very particular scent: it was this overwhelming floral perfume, wafting from the dish of decorative soaps – certainly my grandma’s addition to the home. Th...