When do we receive healing? Where does healing come from?
How is it related to justice? What does a Syrophoenician woman have to do with
Jesus? What do people in the Middle East have
to do with us?
This week we encounter the anniversary of 9/11. We have
marked the time for five years. We return again to a time, a place of
remembrance. Consciously or unconsciously we revisit a time of horror and
tragedy and terrorism. It is hard to
enter those waters again. But as I contemplate this anniversary I find I am
compelled to take stock in terms of healing. Where has there been healing over
the past five years, and where has there been none? Where has there been
justice, and where has there been none? Healing and justice, justice and peace.
Download the sermon given by Canon Anne Kitch, Sept. 10, at the Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem.
Download kitch.Justice of Healing.pdf