Join us for Mass on the Third Sunday After Trinity, June 21, 2015

You have to wonder about people sometimes.  Quite frankly, you have to wonder about this old world sometimes.  You sometimes hear questions from people as to why evil goes on in the world.  These people  don't understand why "bad things happen to good people."  In a certain sense, this is a fair enough question.  Theologians along with great thinkers throughout history have been asking this same question basically since the world began.  Why do bad things happen at all?  And then many people start placing the blame on God at least indirectly when they ask:  why did God "allow" this to happen?  Why didn't He stop it?  Again, in times of tragedy, such as we witnessed as a nation this week in regards to the horrible church shooting in South Carolina this week, it is easy to question why evil was permitted to happen.  Or why did a one year old little girl die, in a totally separate incident, in a different state, due allegedly to neglect and/or abuse from her parents?  Or why would a young woman be diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and have to spend her time doing chemotherapy and fighting her cancer?  She should have been spending her time taking classes and enjoying time with friends and doing the things that young people typically do instead of going in and out of hospitals and doctors offices.  Instead, her family had to watch her suffer through a terrible disease which she did not choose to have in the first place.  Why did any of these examples, and a whole host of others that we could come up with, happen in the first place?  

If we turn to the First Epistle of St. Peter, we hear the following:  "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: . .   " (I St. Peter 5:5 ff)  Let's be clear.  The devil is indeed prowling throughout the world causing as much mischief as he can.  The devil does certainly plant seeds in our minds, hearts and souls with evil intent.  He misleads us and he lies to us. He plants foundations of confusion in our minds so that we will not see the truth but see things how he wants us to see them.  But we need to take St. Peter's advice and be "vigilant" and be "sober" . . . . in other words, pay attention! . . . be on guard! . . . . the devil wants to devour us . . . the world wants to devour us . . . . .  . evil wants to devour us!  All the more reason to stay close to God.  Get to know God on a personal level.  Make Him your best friend.  Make Him your personal adviser.  Let God be your instructor in life.  You see, so many people today let Satan instruct them and they don't even realize it.  What happens when there is a void?  Typically, something comes in to fill up that void.  This is what happens when we do not have God in our life.  We have a void when we do not have God in our life and that void is filled with all kinds of things:  evil thoughts and misinformation and hatred and jealousy  .  . .  . . Fill your hearts with God and there will be no room for hatred!  Fill your mind with things of God and there will be no opportunity for the devil to fill it with thoughts of mischief.  Fill your soul with Christ and you will never go wrong.   Give your heart to God and the devil will never have the opportunity to take it!

Two opportunities to join us for Mass this weekend:

St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church meets every Sunday morning at 9:30 AM. We worship at the beautiful chapel at Marquette Manor, located at 8140 N. Township Line Road on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.

The Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit worships each Sunday afternoon at 1:00 PM.  We worship at the beautiful, historic First Presbyterian Church in Greenfield, Indiana, which is located at 116 W. South Street (the corner of South and Pennsylvania Streets.)

Come worship with us and spend a quality hour in worship of God, set apart from the busyness of the world.  Listen to the Word of God found in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the King James Version of the Bible.  Receive the Precious Body and Blood at Communion time.  And then after Mass, stick around for some delicious goodies at our coffee hour.