These podcasts, drawn from sermons, Scripture readings and classes at Christ Episcopal Church in Canon City, Colorado, explore and support the depth of Christian experience and development. Our point of view is influenced by Fr. Richard Rohr, Fr. Thomas Keating, and other contemplative Christians as well as our own contemplative practice.
Going Deeper With Christ Episcopal Church
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These podcasts, drawn from sermons, Scripture readings and classes at Christ Episcopal Church in Canon City, Colorado, explore and support the depth of Christian experience and development. Our point of view is influenced by Fr. Richard Rohr, Fr. Thomas Keating, and other contemplative Christians as well as our own contemplative practice.
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January 26, 2026
Thank You Father Mark
<p>Father Mark Meyer retired from Christ Episcopal Church in Canon City, Colorado, on January 25, 2026. In this video, some of the many people who know and love him shared their stories.</p>
January 25, 2026
Shining Through Us All
<p>Shining Through Us All</p><p>Matthew 5:14-16</p><p><br></p><p>Father Mark reflects with deep gratitude on his 28 years of ministry at Christ Church, recognizing how profoundly the community has shaped his spiritual growth. He names his journey toward greater maturity, humility, compassion, and openness, crediting the people of the parish—past and present—as his teachers. Through shared prayer, study, dialogue, correction, and love, the congregation has embodied its motto of “going deeper,” helping him learn, sometimes through mistakes, the grace of falling upward.</p><p><br></p><p>Drawing on the readings from Micah, Colossians, and the Gospel of Matthew, Father Mark emphasizes that Christian virtues—justice, kindness, humility, compassion, patience, love, peace, and gracious speech—are simple to name but difficult to live. These qualities are not achieved by effort alone but by allowing the peace of Christ and the word of Christ to dwell within us. Gratitude, he teaches, is a powerful spiritual practice that disarms the ego and opens us to divine grace, enabling true transformation and humility.</p><p><br></p><p>Finally, Father Mark affirms the community’s calling to be “the light of the world,” embodying Christ’s love amid division, cruelty, and darkness. Though he is departing physically, he assures the congregation that there is no distance in the heart of God, and that shared love for the Gospel, justice, and community continues to bind them together. With poetry and prayer, he expresses profound thanksgiving, entrusting their shared life to God’s grace and celebrating the enduring light of Christ shining through them all.</p><p><br></p><p>Scripture quotations are from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.</p>
January 18, 2026
God-Shaped Hole
<p>God-Shaped Hole</p><p>John 1:29-42</p><p><br></p><p>John the Baptist points his disciples to Jesus as the Lamb of God, and they respond by leaving everything to follow him. When Jesus asks, “What are you looking for?” the sermon frames this as a profound spiritual question. The disciples were not seeking worldly rewards like power or comfort, but something deeper—what could satisfy the longing of their souls and draw them into the kingdom of heaven.</p><p><br></p><p>Drawing on St. Augustine’s insight that our hearts are restless until they rest in God, the sermon reflects on the “God-shaped hole” within every human soul. When we lose touch with our true home in God, we try to fill that emptiness with substitutes—possessions, entertainment, ideology, or status—but none of these can satisfy. Only the one true God, as revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, can meet the deepest yearnings of the human heart.</p><p><br></p><p>The sermon contrasts the God revealed by Jesus—self-giving love, forgiveness, and mercy—with distorted images of God shaped by worldly values like power and violence. What we seek, the preacher argues, shapes who we become and even how we imagine God. Through honest, prayerful self-examination, we come to know our deepest desires, to know God more truly, and to live as bearers of Christ’s light in a troubled world that longs, often unknowingly, for that light.</p><p><br></p><p>Scripture quotations are from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.</p>
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