This is the text of a sermon presented at Saint John the Baptist Anglican Church on Sunday 2 March 2025, the Feast of the Transfiguration. The Transfiguration message encourages us to let love guide us beyond legal requirements. This message is highly relevant to Black Heritage Month. Our Bible readings present clear messages about liftingContinue reading “LIFTING THE VEIL. LETTING LOVE PREVAIL.”
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Black Canadians: The narrative and the vision
Systemic racism persists, even though there is no explicit racist intent and there is no contravention of anti-discrimination laws and anti-racist policies.
Act intentionally to dismantle systemic racism
As we celebrate Black History Month, the transfiguration calls upon all of us to examine the legacy of history and to act intentionally to surpass the limitations of anti-discriminatory laws in Canada.
Lifting the veil. Living in love.
The transfiguration is the literal depiction of how love, personified in Jesus, rises above the limitations of the law, and removes the veil of political correctness, racial tolerance, indifference, race, religion, gender, and all the other things that influence the way we view and treat ‘other’ people. That, dear sisters and brothers in Christ, is the connection between Jesus’ transfiguration and the stories we tell during Black History Month.
Glory Matters 