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Fourth Sunday After Easter – May 18, 2025 – Bulletin

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 our Gospel lesson today Jesus is speaking to His disciples about the person and work of the Holy Spirit, whose ‘ coming’ we will celebrate at Pentecost. It is the Holy Spirit working in and beyond the Church who takes the truth of Jesus Christ and applies it to our hearts, and overturns the false judgements of the world. In the face of the moral, spiritual, and theological confusion of our times, what is a Christian to do? Our Epistle lesson directs in the paths of thanksgiving for all God’s good gifts to us, being quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, and with meekness receive the implanted Word, Jesus Christ, who is able to save our souls. 

THE LESSON : James 1:17-21

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Third Sunday After Easter – May 11, 2025 – Bulletin

THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER

May 11 , 2025

ALLELUIA. CHRIST IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED.ALLELUIA!

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 Gospel readings for these last three Sundays of Easter season all come from the 16th Chapter of John’s Gospel, the co-called Farewell Discourse, where Jesus is preparing His disciples for death on the Cross, and the anguish to come. But this anguish and sadness will be transformed into joy. This is the promise and the joy faith in Christ’s resurrection. It sees beyond circumstances, and what is natural and inevitable. In place of resignation   (“ it is what it is”), there is joy, and the hope and love that brings new things to birth. In our Epistle lesson, St. Peter describes the moral and spiritual transformation Resurrection works in the lives of those who believe. They abstain from the “passions of the flesh” ( ie. gluttony, lust, avarice, anger, dejection, listlessness, pride etc.) and use their freedom to serve the common good.    

THE LESSON : 1 Peter 2:11-17

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Palm Sunday – April 13, 2025 – Bulletin

Palm Sunday
April 13, 2025

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 Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of, and provides us with a “overture” for Holy Week. Our Gospel today will comprise a dramatic reading of the Passion of St. Matthew. In the Epistle reading for today from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians  we are given to understand what the Passion is in theological terms: the self-emptying of God, and the enthronement of Jesus Christ before whom, sooner or later, every knee will bow. All of which is to say, there is no room here for the “ego ” that is the creature that lives by needs, desires, wounds, plans, and expectations. To be a Christian is to take the selflessness of Christ, and make it our own, so that Christ lives in me, and I live in him.

THE LESSON : Philippians 2:5-11

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