A prep episode for Sunday 1 November 2026, All Saints, with communion. Two voices read Luke 18:1-8, walk through the sermon on the persistent widow and the unjust judge, walk through the All Saints communion liturgy (Carol Holbrook Prickett, 2017, edited) section by section, and finish with a prep list for the morning. About 20 minutes.
Covered: Luke’s framing in verse 1 and the black eye in verse 5; Snodgrass on a difficult parable; Amy-Jill Levine on widows who are not weak; the Melbourne minor thesis; reading, meditating, consulting, freaking out; who is who in the parable and Luke’s reversed world; Barbara Reid and God as the widow; “those not getting it from us”; God as the widow who shows up each day in her weakness; the communion in six parts (invitation and the naming of saints, the Great Prayer from creation to Revelation 7, the epiclesis, the Sorrill Lord’s Prayer, the words of institution, the sharing, the closing prayer); and the prep list.
Sources
- Barbara E. Reid, “Persistent Pursuit of Justice”, America, 11 October 2010
- Carol Holbrook Prickett, A Communion Liturgy for All Saints’ Sunday (2017)
- Klyne R. Snodgrass, Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus (Eerdmans, 2008)
- Amy-Jill Levine, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (HarperOne, 2014)
- Spill the Beans, Issue 48 (call to worship, prayers, benediction)
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