breathing/sound meditation on Isaiah 6:1-8
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 6, 2022
Isaiah 6:1-8 • Luke 5:1-11
Beloveds,
Today’s ‘sermon’ will take the form of a breathing/sound meditation on our Isaiah reading. I have no script for you. We’ll be reaching together into the mystery and holiness of the divine. Maybe the seraphs will show up, maybe it’ll be something on a smaller scale.
Here is the reading. You will recognize the beginning words of our Sanctus that we sing every Sunday.
Isaiah 6:1-8
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said:
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory."
The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out." Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me!"