It comes tomorrow.
My sermon is about a conversation I had with my Zoom friends (Bern calls them 'the boys' since they are all male) about baptism.
But what I really talk about tomorrow is how the altar can lead to the font rather than the font leading to the altar.
As a priest, I'm supposed to only give communion to the baptized.
But in my long tenure as a priest I've never once refused to communion to the un-baptized.
And I've had over a dozen people ask to be baptized after they had tasted the Body and Blood.
It has always humbled me.
I feel the way John the Baptist felt in tomorrow's gospel when he tells Jesus that he (John) should be baptized by Jesus.
The font and the altar should be side-by-side.....
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