Fourth Sunday of Easter (Mother's Day/Good Shepherd Sunday)
Rev. Amanda Nicol
Tabitha/Dorcas was a disciple in the early church whose ministry of sewing clothing for widows knit together a community of people. “Good works and acts of charity” are never abstractions. Christian witness tangibly contributes to wholeness and flourishing. Through its cruciform familiarity with hardship and loss it builds new community. It reasserts human dignity, wrapping others like a garment in the warmth of love and honor.