The feast day of Gregory The illuminator, bishop and missionary of Armenia 257–332

   Psalm 31:, 3b

for the
sake of
your Name,
lead me
& guid me.

Gregory is called  ”The Illuminator” because he brought the light of the Gospel did the people of Armenia, the first country to become a Christian nation.

        Pray for the church and people of Armenia. Pray for those who preach the gGospel in the face of opposition and hardship. Pray also for the light of the Gospel to shine in the darkness of t our world.

      If the official acceptance of Christianity polluted and diluted Christianity, as Vernon Dozier says in her book The Dream of God  and so constitutes not victory, but the  “third fall of humankind,” then instead of bemoaning the fact that we are live n a post-Christian society, we should rejoice and get on with bringing the light of Christ into our world, not the not to dominate  but to love and illuminate, as He did. 

          And if this seems  to dump everything we thought on it’s head, it probably means we are close to Jesus who often did just that.  And so, On to Holy Week!  Fasten your seat belts, friends.