Our Thanksgiving post is a meditation on the gospel lectionary text for Thanksgiving day, prepared by Catherine Dodson Goodrich for a meeting this week of the session of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta where she serves as a resident pastor. Catherine was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in an ordination service in our sanctuary last month.
Luke 17:11-19
11On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. 12As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, 13they called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 14When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean. 15Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. 16He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. 17Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? 18Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19Then he said to him, “Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.”
What are you thankful for? If you made a list, what would make the top 5? My list changes from week to week, depending on what is happening in my life, but right now it includes….read more at Luke 17 Sermon
