Come Forth & Go Forth

This sermon, titled "Come Forth and Go Forth," reflects on the story of Lazarus to illustrate the church's yearly theme of "Living the Liturgy" - the danger of attending church faithfully while never truly encountering Christ. The priest identifies three movements in the Lazarus narrative: Christ calling Lazarus to "come forth" from the tomb, being "unbound" from his grave clothes, and finally "going forth" to live as a witness. He emphasizes that the Eucharist is the center of Christian life, quoting St. Ignatius's description of it as "the medicine of immortality," and stresses that repentance is a lifelong process.