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​In the Church’s liturgical calendar, today is Trinity Sunday. 
 
Today is also the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend … a time to remember those in the United States military who have died defending the freedoms of this nation.  For many this brings to mind those who died in wars of the past … WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam.  However, the Taliban is currently retaking lost territory in Afghanistan as US troops leave after twenty years of warfare that killed over 2,300 soldiers … soldiers who will be remembered tomorrow on Memorial Day … soldiers who were sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.  In addition to those who were killed, over 20,000 have been wounded in Afghanistan, which doesn’t include those who live with the invisible mental, emotional, and spiritual wounds that are felt daily. 

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I am always impressed when I hear the reading … in all these different languages …from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles about that first Pentecost.  It is a statement about just one of the levels of diversity in this small congregation.  We often refer to these different languages as “foreign” languages, when really they are just non-English languages which are being spoken by the rich tapestry of people that make up this community.

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Today is the 7th Sunday of our Easter season in the Church’s liturgical calendar.  It is also the Sunday after the Ascension … the ascension of Jesus into Heaven.  Jesus came from God … Jesus returned to God.  Jesus was born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit and announced by an angel from heaven.  Jesus lived and died on this earth.  After he died he was placed in a tomb hewn out of rock.  But the tomb could not hold him.  Jesus was resurrected to new life and appeared to the disciples on this earth.  Then he ascended into Heaven to return to God.  That is the story we hear in Luke’s Gospel and the Book of the Acts of the Apostles this morning.

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Sermon by The Rev. Deena M. Galantowicz

I would expect we all know that today is Mothers’ Day and certainly most of us had loving mothers, so I think this sermon, which is all about Love, is quite appropriate.
 
Our Presiding Bishop, Michael Curry, has written a lovely book entitled “Love is the Way” in which he has much that could be quoted, because the name of his book is quite appropriate as he presents why Love Is the best and strongest way to have a better world.  For example, he wrote, “Walk and talk in the manner of Love, for God is Love.  This is a call to be the change you would like to see. Each day brings opportunities to unite or divide, to provoke anger or model compassion. 

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In the reading from John’s gospel this morning we heard:
 
“I am the vine, you are the branches …” (John 15:5)
 
In a way, this is a metaphorical reference to the agricultural practice of grafting fruit bearing vines, to hearty rootstock.  Even in Jesus’ time, grape vines were usually grafted.  Some grape varieties had strong roots that were resistant to disease, and rot, and drought … but they did not produce an abundance of good grapes.  So, vineyard owners would graft high producing varieties of grapevines to strong root stocks.