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A Michaelmas Sermon
A sermon given after the gospel reading from Matthew 22: The Parable of the Wedding Feast.
We often speak of Knighthood in the time of Michaelmas, as in the song: “Let me of God a fighter be, in the knighthood of the Grail!” And in a festival for children, we may bring to the children the ideal of the knight: to ever serve the Good; and test them with challenges of aim, balance and courage which can help them serve and develop knighthood in themselves.
The highest ideal of the knight however is something called Minne, what often is simply translated as LOVE. But this love is something different than the often sentimentalized “chivalric love” of the age of knights—it is far more than anything personal. This love that the knight aims to develop is not merely a protective love for the “damsel in distress”, but rather, a far-reaching love of humanity which longs to serve the divine in each human being. It is a love seeking the essential being of the other, that which is most important and true. The knight seeks and serves that which is becoming in the other as a highest ideal and a life task.
Michaelmas Prayer
A meditative prayer by Adam Bittleston
We need in the light of our day
The eternal Light of the Word of God.
When we see with our thoughts this Light
On the path which leads from the cave
Where thinking and seeing our shadows,
Into the fields of life
Into the freedom of the heart—
We shall meet Michael
Who reveals how Christ
Awakens thinking
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