Saints Right Now - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

That's the most interesting thing to so many people about children, the promise of what will be. I hear people who think they're well intentioned say, oh, the children are the future of the church. No, they're the present of the church. They're not the future. They're here right now. They're not our future. They're the present. But we have this tendency to look at everything as what could be, or might be, or will be, when right here and now these people are blessing us. The people that we love who have died that we now call Saints. Did they walk around on Earth acting like what we would consider Saints acting like then? Be honest, we love them in their death. When they were alive, were they perfect? That's not how sainthood works. It's not about perfection. It's about responding to the love that God has placed within you and sharing that love with the world around you, however imperfectly you can. However imperfect you are, we recognize our sainthood. Every single one of us. We proclaim it. Not as saying we're all good, but as saying, we are all, every single one of us loved. Snd we are set apart in this world to share and spread that love to help it grow, to participate with God in the reconciliation of this world. What would it look like if we saw these ones around us as not as what they will be, but what as they are right now, how they bless us currently? Read Transcript Here