Saint Edward the Confessor, preached on October 13, 2026
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min · 3 segments
Saint Edward the Confessor, preached on October 13, 2026
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Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min · 3 segments
Saint Edward the Confessor, preached on October 13, 2026
Robert McTeigueHost
Now, I know there's, um, uh, an atheist, I'm blanking on his name at the moment, but he said luck is just the science of probability taken personally.
But when you come into the world and your father's name is Ethelred the Unready, I don't see that as a harbinger of good things to come.
Now, granted, he was born not with a silver spoon, but a gold spoon in his mouth.
He had a very hard time, and yet he didn't despair, and he insisted on God being with him.
He says, "Let no man despair, for the Lord is the architect of our future, even when our, our walls seem to crumble." And sometimes his walls really did crumble, courtesy of the Vikings.
When he got back to England, after the Vikings got tired and left, the first thing he did was rebuilt, uh, Westminster Abbey and bring the monks back.
A historian said of him, "Even when the crown pressed hard upon the brow, he kept his gaze fixed on the cross." Good fortune, bad fortune, he trusted in providence, and he knew that tr- uh, trusting in providence did not preclude from him very concrete responsibilities of action.
So those who knew him insisted that he never lost his faith, and above all, he never lost his charity.
And that reason alone should be, uh, why we might want to invoke his intercession on a regular basis.
Now, I know there's, um, uh, an atheist, I'm blanking on his name at the moment, but he said luck is just the science of probability taken personally.
But when you come into the world and your father's name is Ethelred the Unready, I don't see that as a harbinger of good things to come.
Now, granted, he was born not with a silver spoon, but a gold spoon in his mouth.
He had a very hard time, and yet he didn't despair, and he insisted on God being with him.
He says, "Let no man despair, for the Lord is the architect of our future, even when our, our walls seem to crumble." And sometimes his walls really did crumble, courtesy of the Vikings.
When he got back to England, after the Vikings got tired and left, the first thing he did was rebuilt, uh, Westminster Abbey and bring the monks back.
A historian said of him, "Even when the crown pressed hard upon the brow, he kept his gaze fixed on the cross." Good fortune, bad fortune, he trusted in providence, and he knew that tr- uh, trusting in providence did not preclude from him very concrete responsibilities of action.
So those who knew him insisted that he never lost his faith, and above all, he never lost his charity.
And that reason alone should be, uh, why we might want to invoke his intercession on a regular basis.
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