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Christ's Spirit Animal

                        Feast of Christ the King Nov 21 & 22, 2020 What is your spirit animal?  Maybe you are familiar with the concept of ‘spirit animals.’  It originally came from the Lakota tradition of spiritual quests in which an animal spirit guide accompanies a teenaged seeker in a coming-of-age ritual.  It has entered into America pop culture.  People choose and animal they identify with or whose qualities they really like.  My spirit animal is a grizzly bear.  The animal for my four-year-old son EJ is a tyrannosaurus rex.     Many people choose a fierce animal—one that might be at home as the name of an NFL team.  A big cat—Lions, Panthers, Bengal Tigers,  Jaguars.  Or a bird of prey—Falcons, Eagles, Seahawks.  You get the idea.     Jesus has a spirit animal, too.  Can you guess what it is?  It is one that we heard in the Gospel today.  And it’s one of the four animals that are depicted in the artwork of this Church.  Do you see it?   That’s right—the lamb.  You see it abo