A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark Feast of All Saints The Very Reverend Tyler B. Doherty, Dean & Rector We often think of saints as those few, rare, heroic Christian souls who exemplify remarkable degrees of holiness--the Mother Teresas, the John of the Crosses, the Julian of Norwiches, the Sojourner Truths. Of course, there are people who are just different, who show us in the shape of their lives what it means to be “like Christ” in this life. People say that about St. Francis, in fact. That he was reputed to be the most Christ-like person since the time of Jesus. To encounter St. Francis was to get a glimpse of what it might have been like to be in the presence of Jesus himself. Our highly individualistic culture tends to feed this picture of sanctity as a solitary affair, the heroism of a few, select spiritual geniuses who spring fully formed from the head of Zeus, so to speak. There’s a certain quaint romanticism to that picture, not unlike what like Jac
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