“You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind,… and you shall love your neighbor like yourself” (Deut. 6:5; Mt. 22:36-40). This biblical injunction is at the center of the teaching of both the Old and the New Testaments. But what does it mean to love God? What forms of love can be directed to the supreme being whom we cannot see? And how are we to express our love for our neighbor? How are love of God, love of self, and love of neighbor related? These and similar issues have been discussed by believers over the centuries, not least by the mystics, that is, those who have been seen as enjoying a special form of direct contact with God. This lecture and workshop are designed to present the teaching of the mystics on these issues.  

Bernard & Patricia McGinn

Sunday, April 25

Sermon by Bernard McGinn
The Transfiguration and Our Spiritual Transformation
in the First Congregational Church Sanctuary (Click Here)

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A Lenten Program based on Reading the Mystics
Worship services during Lent 2010 February 21- April 4, 2010 were on the Mystics. Click Here to listen or read the sermons.