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"Great Is Your Faith." Matthew 15:21–28. A Canaanite woman comes to Jesus in Gentile territory. He does not answer her. The disciples want to send her away. She kneels and says: Lord, help me. And he calls her faith great.
“She Said Yes.” Luke 1:46–55. The Feast of the Virgin Mary. The BCP does not define what happened to Mary at the end of her life. It simply honors her for what Scripture says plainly: she is the mother of the incarnate Son of God, and she said yes before she knew the full cost.
August 15: the Virgin Mary. The BCP says simply: you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary. The manner of her taking is not defined. The fact of God’s gracious reception is affirmed. Anglican honor rests on what Scripture says plainly: she is the mother of the incarnate Son.
“Lord, Save Me.” Matthew 14:22–33. The disciples row through the night in a storm. Jesus comes to them walking on the water. Peter steps out of the boat. He sinks. The hand reaches immediately. And for the first time, the disciples worship: Truly you are the Son of God.
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration. On a mountain in Galilee, the face of Jesus shone like the sun. Moses and Elijah appeared. A voice spoke from the cloud. The same Jesus who healed the sick and bore the cross blazed with the glory that was always his.
August 6: the Feast of the Transfiguration. The August collect asks not for strength to bear the cross but to behold the King in his beauty, delivered from the disquietude of this world. The Season after Pentecost is long. The mountain appears in the middle of it. Rise, and have no fear.