For those of us in liturgical churches (which has more to do with style of liturgy than its presence, according to the esteemed theologian Dr. Gordon Lathrop, all Christians have some kind of liturgy, even if it is gathered silence. Otherwise we'd have no cause to ever gather.) we are entering into several new seasons at once. Memorial Day, which properly is set aside to remember the gift of self that countless soldiers have given throughout our country's history, marks the "unofficial start of summer" in the U.S. and folks orientation moves away from schooling and work towards warm weather and recreation. At Trinity we have our own transitions as some programs are modified during the summer and others are paused until the fall. And of course, with Pentecost and Holy Trinity Sunday behind us, we enter the sea of green. Green readings, about the life and work of the church; green vestments to test the endurance in buildings without air conditioning; green paraments to remind us of our life in God.
The 'summer', however it is loosely defined, is not time off for the church. Worship and some education continues apace. There is ample planning, preparing and revising going on. Summer is a time to reinvigorate home visitation because the weather is less of a barrier to traveling to folks' homes. And in our particular context there are students to mentor, a vacation bible school to run and a campus ministry that needs to be brought up to speed.
This is the time to open up the garage, sharpen the tools and make sure we have what we need for the harvest ahead!
1 comment:
Bravo for thinking of campus ministry.
And double bravo for doing something about it, since for some reason Trinity seems to pretend that WPI is on Mars instead of right next door!
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