Changing A Paradigm -- Or Two
Gospel Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (First Third) Cycle C
The widow of Nain, the Gospel story just read: Can you picture the scene?
"A man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow."
Can you picture it? Can you feel the pathos of her anguish, her hopelessness, her helplessness as she is left alone?
We know her, don't we? We've stood beside the various shapes and forms she has taken in her grief -- the widows and widowers, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, grandsons and grandmothers. We have seen her, stood beside her, and in our own times, been her.
