May 4, 2024
Great and Holy Saturday
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things… so that no one may boast before him.
(I Corinthians 1:26-29)
Brothers and sisters, I have no way to account for how the hick from the midwest who is writing to you could come to experience the great riches of the Resurrection that the Church will celebrate this evening. I keep having a recurring nightmare that someone more important will find me out, tap me on the shoulder and forcefully inform me, “We don’t serve your kind around here.” My imposter syndrome lingers even after I have been an Orthodox Christian for over three decades. But St. Paul’s epistle reminds me that the apostles themselves were imposters: unschooled, ordinary people whom the Lord called out of their feelings of inferiority and unworthiness.
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