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THE FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT

December 1 , 2024

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE FOREVER!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS.

‘He came to us in great humility, and He will come again in majesty to judge the living and the dead.’ Our conviction concerning the person of Jesus Christ  as expressed in the Advent Collect is presented to us in figural terms in today’s Gospel lesson where Jesus rides into Jerusalem in a donkey ( humility) and proceeds to clear the temple of the money changers. ( judgement). The Epistle lesson unpacks for us the meaning of Christ’s coming for spiritual life: love is the fulfilling of the commandments, which necessitates a disciplining of our sinful desires. 

THE LESSON : Romans 13:8-14

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THE SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE ADVENT

November 24, 2024

THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE; 
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS

Today is the Sunday Next Before Advent, which serves as a “bridge” between the long season of Trinity and the end of one liturgical year, and the  beginning of  a new year and the season of Advent. This day comes to us a signal for the renewal of our love, our desire for holy things, to share our faith, and the stirring up of our wills. The Epistle lesson lays out the ground for our hope for the future, and our Gospel lesson presents us with the invitation to “come and see” how this hope is being actualized in the here and now of our lives.   

THE COLLECT

STIR up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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TWENTY FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

November 17, 2024

THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE; 
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS

In today’s Gospel lesson Jesus recites a poem in which describes in graphic images what sounds like the end of the world. But what is being described here is not so much the end of the present world, but the end of the present world order. This is, predictably, a situation of terrible confusion and chaos, of “darkness between worlds” (René Guénon). Jesus would not have his disciples be alarmed or upset, and fall victim to the claims of false Messiahs. For the darkness and confusion serves to manifest Christ’ssaving and sovereign rule and authority. The Epistle reading from 1 John sets the spiritual focus and agenda for Christians in dark times: hold fast in faith to the victory of  Christ over death and the devil, purify your hearts, and continue in works of love.

THE LESSON : 1 John 3:1-10

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TWENTY FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

November 10, 2024

THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE; 
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS.

The long season of Trinity, that is the season of our growing in the Spirit, that is our sanctification, becoming holy, as God is holy, is drawing to a close. In our Epistle reading, St. Paul invites us to look to consider how it was that we got our start in our life with God. It was the through the preaching of the Gospel that we were raised from the death of sin to life in the Spirit, and it is this Gospel that is the continues to do its work in bearing spiritual fruit in our lives. For Paul, there is always more! And so he prays that we might be strengthened with all power for endurance and patience with joy that we might finish our course.  Our Gospel lesson celebrates the healing , life giving power of Jesus Christ in the lives of the woman with a haemorrhage and the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue.

THE LESSON : Colossians 1:3-12

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ALL SAINTS SUNDAY

November 3, 2024

THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE; 
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS

On this Feast of All Saints, our readings give us two complimentary visions of holiness. The first, from the Book of Revelation, where a great multitude, who have been sanctified through their suffering, stand in worship before the throne of God in heaven and experience His unmeditated sheltering presence and comfort. The second vision, from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, describes the personal qualities and life experience and the ensuing blessedness of those who have died to sin, and have risen to new life in Christ.

THE LESSON : Revelation 7:9-17

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