Something Beautiful is Happening Here!

Pastor Darryn Scheske | Sunday, October 12, 2025

Communion Scripture Reading

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. Isaiah 53:7

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” They divided his garments by casting lots. Luke 23:34

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not arrogant, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with what is true. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

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 Gospel Reading

As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said. At once they left their nets and followed him. The news about his miracles had spread far and wide, and vast numbers of people came to see him. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “Everything He does is beautiful. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” Mark 1:16–18; 3:8; 7:37

Sermon

Something beautiful is happening here

Beauty is how God moves us toward Him

 “The Sovereign LORD will move all people to praise Him. His righteousness will bloom like a beautiful garden in early spring, with wildflowers springing up everywhere.” Isaiah 61:11

“Within the beautiful, the whole person quivers. He not only finds the beautiful moving, rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it.”

⏤Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

 The “Illative Sense”

The natural capacity of all people to sense when they are in the presence of something remarkable, inspiring, ennobling—in a word, something beautiful.

⏤John Henry Neuman, Theologian

“The ‘illative sense’ is what allows us to take our concrete human experiences—whether they be of nature's beauty, of the demands of conscience, the feeling of guilt, the pangs of remorse, the search for forgiveness, of the sense of the contingency of life, of the peaceful joy elicited by the shallow breathing of your sleeping child beside you in bed, of the honor given to a soldier who sacrificed his life for his fellows, of the haunting beauty of the second movement of Schubert's piano sonata in A major, of the pathos of G.M. Hopkins' poem Spring and Fall, of indeed any created good or beautiful thing—and come to the conclusion that there must be a transcendent reality behind it all, ultimately, he whom we call or know as God.”

⏤Andrew M. Greenwell, Attorney/ Translator

 Truth answers, “What is real?”

Goodness answers, “What is right?”

But Beauty answers, “What draws the heart toward what is real and right?”

 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, and…At once they left their nets and followed him. Mark 1:16–18

They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “Everything He does is beautiful. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” Mark 7:37 

How beautiful it is, when God’s people dwell together as one in unity! Like the oil on the head, running down upon the beard, upon the beard of Aaron, upon the collar of his robe. Like dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion. There the Lord has commanded His blessing, life for evermore! Psalm 133:1–3

 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. Acts 2:41

“Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. –Jesus, Mark 16:15–16

Those hearing, believed and were baptized. Acts 18:8

 “Baptism is performed in the most expressive way by immersion in the baptismal water. Baptism, the original and full sign of which is immersion, efficaciously signifies the descent into the tomb by the Christian who dies to sin with Christ in order to live a new life.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, 628 & 1239