July 27, 2008 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sermon delivered at St. John the Evangelist, 10 am.
Readings: I Kings 3:56, 7-12; Ps. 118; Romans 8:28-30; Matthew 13:44-52
In the name of God, the one, the Undivided Trinity. AMEN.
Three priests were walking along a cold, rocky beach in England one day: a vicar, and his two curates. One of the curates stumbled over a bottle washed up on the shore and it broke.
Suddenly a great cloud of mist arose from the remnants of the bottle and a genie formed amid the mist. He looked around, blinked, and said to the three startled priests: