<html><body>Part 2<div><p style="margin: 1.25rem; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “I don’t think so. It’s a great prayer. It expresses wholehearted commitment, a desire to imitate Christ, a generous spirit, and a readiness to work hard–all sentiments associated with Ignatian spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises. They fit Ignatius perfectly. You feel like he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="padding: 0in; border: 1pt none windowtext;">could</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>have written that prayer, just as St. Francis could have written the prayer attributed to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 1.25rem; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “Maybe Ignatius didn’t write the Prayer for Generosity in the 16th century. But the spiritual movement he started was healthy enough in the 20th century to produce a prayer that sounds just like him. <em style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="padding: 0in; border: 1pt none windowtext;">That’s</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>impressive.” <sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> One of the paradoxical things that Jesus teaches, that Christianity seeks from us, is to be able to see needs, to see things that are missing or could be done better, and to live, and to move, and to exist to draw others in the loving state of finding God’s peace; to do this before we worry about ourselves or what the cost may be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> There have been arguments over the years about what the parables Jesus told, especially the ones we heard this morning, what they mean, because they don’t seem to make any sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> You have a hundred sheep – and you know what sheep are like – but somehow you’re willing to leave the ninety-nine to search for the one you discover is missing. Is that lunacy, or is it lunacy? Certainly one sheep is important. But aren’t the ninety-nine ninety-nine times more important?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> If one person in the congregation is sick; if one of our sisters and brothers is going through a rough spot; if someone chooses not to come together for spiritual and physical nourishment; if one doesn’t find the energy to take part in communal events, do you tack a note on the door of the building and say, “Come on in. Make yourself at home. Sing a few hymns, flip through the Prayer Book. And at least some of you know where the coffee and tea are kept n the kitchen.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> Does the leader go off to spend time with that one, leaving the others to their devices? Yet, if Jesus said, “Feed My sheep,” surely He didn’t exclude any of them, regardless of their behaviour, of their belief system, or any other characteristic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> Somehow, we have to be compassionate and sensitive enough to notice when one person, one system, isn’t present or isn’t fully engaged, or performing properly. Somehow, we have to try to remain alert, yet we know that we can’t forestall every crisis before it happens. Therefore when something goes off the rails, when someone because invisible, we have to seek to find out why this happened and to try to induce that person to come back.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, wrote, “9/11 was a catastrophic event on American soil, but it has affected the whole international community. Sixty-two countries lost people in this devastating attack. The ramifications have been global and put the world on alert for a new form of destructive, annihilistic terrorism which has sprouted groups like Boko Haram, ISIS and Al Shabaab.” <sup>3</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> This isn’t to lay blame. The parables of Jesus barely touch on that. Just one brief note after the second story about recognising that there may be, somehow, some responsibility in permitting or causing a loss, a separation, a tension to have occurred. Jesus merely talks of the joy in discovering unity once again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> This anniversary, just like any other, isn’t to become an exercise in blame, in self-congratulation, in bitterness. Perhaps, if anything, just as in the action of individuals to bring the herd to completion or the monetary account into balance, today and every day should be an opportunity to discover how individuals work for the common good, for the healing of relationships, for the rebuilding of society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Nicholas Kristof wrote about what really inspires him, what gives him hope, what helps him to have faith that all will be well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> In his mind, “It is not the bureaucracy that inspires me, or doctrine, or ancient rituals, or even the most glorious cathedral, temple or mosque, but rather a Catholic missionary<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-hes-jesus-christ.html"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">doctor in Sudan treating bomb victims,</span></a> </span>an evangelical physician achieving the impossible<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-little-respect-for-dr-foster.html"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">in rural Angola</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/opinion/08kristof.html"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">a rabbi</span></a> </span>battling for Palestinians’ human rights — they fill me with an almost holy sense of awe. Now, that’s religion.” This, Kristof said, is what Jesus would do. <sup>4</sup><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> This, perhaps, is where we <b><u>CAN</u></b> give thanks for individualism – the bringing of life, and comfort, on behalf of the whole community, one person – each one of us here, one at a time, reaching out to bring health and a sense of meaning, even when things seem to be crumbling about us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “John Labriola, who had an office on the 71st Floor of the Tower One snapped (the photo in the bulletin. It shows) firefighter Mike Kehoe rushing up the Tower One as Labriola was evacuating. The photo was taken just minutes before the tower collapsed, and when the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Daily Mirror</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ran the next morning, the editors were uncertain whether he survived or not. Six of his colleagues who went up the same staircase died, but Kehoe survived, and the photo won him instant acclaim; …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “The photo perfectly encapsulates the dedication of 343 firefighters who perished, and thousands of other first responders, law enforcement officials and ordinary heroes that day. But sadly, their stories also represent the ephemeral nature of the unity achieved on 9/11. A decade on, political horse-trading would lead to the responders being denied medical coverage and compensation.” <sup>5</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> One person, one at a time, reaching out, seeking the lost, comforting the frightened, restoring hope – that’s what Jesus asks of us. <b><u>THIS</u></b> is worth remembering.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">NOTES:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[1]</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Br. Mark Brown <a href="http://ssje.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=344ed142b391b2b520df4080c&id=fb05b33b2d&e=d3bff814a3" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223);">Society of Saint John the Evangelist</span></a> 7<sup>th</sup> September, 2016 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> ssje.org/word<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjHhIaC84PPAhUTzmMKHSWgC6UQFggpMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ignatianspirituality.com%2F12297%2Fteach-me-to-be-generous&usg=AFQjCNFY8dkmqBvz7URusloXDg5rr17sWQ"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 153);">Teach Me to Be Generous - Ignatian Spirituality</span></a> </span><cite><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">www.ignatianspirituality.com › Ignatian Prayer<o:p></o:p></span></cite></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Services to mark 15th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks” b</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">y Gavin Drake September 8, 2016 [Anglican Communion News Service] <a href="http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/09/08/services-to-mark-15th-anniversary-of-911-terror-attacks/">http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/09/08/services-to-mark-15th-anniversary-of-911-terror-attacks/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">4</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <i>“</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?” by </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/column/nicholas-kristof"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Nicholas Kristof</span></a> SEPT. 3, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgyZ4A/A0UL7+dvCJorKS4Ke+ZZ3I3qiNaY/VMguvSMLnqHFISNEsS/PONJ2ylFLjSpayBI0L9ikEfPGNTAYnje2Jx3viJL437qz6BuJk0XYibG1ev5VcUsG9NpehnSEEoLmeq1HAw/NLLFw3r5Z+ZCg==&campaign_id=8420&instance_id=81539&segment_id=94572&user_id=13776d46e58cd1c84bbfacad680c03b7®i_id=63205127">http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgyZ4A/A0UL7+dvCJorKS4Ke+ZZ3I3qiNaY/VMguvSMLnqHFISNEsS/PONJ2ylFLjSpayBI0L9ikEfPGNTAYnje2Jx3viJL437qz6BuJk0XYibG1ev5VcUsG9NpehnSEEoLmeq1HAw/NLLFw3r5Z+ZCg==&campaign_id=8420&instance_id=81539&segment_id=94572&user_id=13776d46e58cd1c84bbfacad680c03b7®i_id=63205127</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">5</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"><a href="https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Iconic Photos</span></a> - </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Posts Tagged ‘9/11’- <a href="https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/unmentionable-odour-of-death-offends-that-september-night/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">The Day The Twin Towers Fell</span></a>” </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=17&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjknpvt4PTOAhUK0WMKHXdaCa0QFghXMBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ficonicphotos.wordpress.com%2Ftag%2F911%2F&usg=AFQjCNEX_dTGsTORGZIM5B9jO_fv986LVA"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153);">9/11 | Iconic Photos</span></a> </span><cite><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal;"><a href="https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/911/">https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/911/</a></span></cite><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p><br></o:p></span></div></body></html>