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Epiphany 2 January 19, 2025 – Bulletin

THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

January 19 , 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

The season of Epiphany celebrates the shining or showing forth of God, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. The Gospel lessons in the season of Epiphany serve to highlight  some aspect of God’s Divine Life, Wisdom, Love, and Power which Christ manifested. Our Gospel lesson tells the story of the miraculous turning of water into wine at the wedding of Cana. But the Divine Life which Christ manifests is something given to us to partake and participate in, so that we in turn are transformed and become an epiphany. How this is so is described for us in today’s Epistle lesson, where St. Paul describes the spiritual gifts which God pours out upon the Church, and the character of our Christian lives.

THE LESSON : Romans 12:6-16

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Baptism of Our Lord January 12, 2025 Bulletin

THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD

January 12 , 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

The season of Epiphany is celebration how it is that God has “shown or shined forth” and manifested Himself, in the person of His Son Jesus Christ, and follows on logically and is the fulfillment of the celebration of Christ’s Birth at Christmas. Following on from the Feast of the Epiphany last Sunday, where the wise-men came from the East bearing gifts, today we celebrate the epiphany that took place at the Baptism of Jesus which launched His public ministry: it is the shining or showing forth of the Trinity and Christ’s Divine Sonship. The reading from Isaiah provides us with the prophetic foundation for this manifestation, and the testimony of the Father regarding His Son. 

THE LESSON : Isaiah 42:1-8

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Epiphany January 5, 2025 Bulletin

THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD

January 5 , 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

The Festival of the Epiphany which we celebrate today commemorates the showing forth, or the “shining forth,” the Epiphany of the Divine Glory of Christ, to the wise men from the East who had come to Bethlehem to worship Him who was born “ King of the Jews.” The presence of these Gentile (non-Jewish) men at the beginning of Matthew’s Gospel  anticipates the end of the Gospel where Christ will command his apostles to go out into all the world to make disciples of all nations. In our Epistle reading for today, St. Paul writes about his participation in this “Great Commission” to let the world how it is that through the Gospel all people, everywhere are now included in the gracious purposes of God.

THE LESSON : Ephesians 3:1-12

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Sunday After Christmas December 29, 2024

THE SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS

December 29 , 2024

CHRIST IS BORN! GLORIFY HIM!

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 lesson  for today from St. Matthew  underlines both the supernatural and the scriptural character of the birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary, and also highlights for us the key role that Joseph played in this drama, whose righteous conduct serves as an illustration for us of what it means for us to live as those who though baptism have received the Holy Spirit and adoption as sons and heirs of God.

THE LESSON : Galatians 4:1-7

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Advent Four December 22, 2024 – Bulletin

THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT

December 22 , 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 season of Advent where we have been preparing ourselves from the Coming of the Lord is drawing to a close. What does it mean for us to welcome and receive Christ at His Coming? Paul’s Letter to the Philippians speaks about joy, patience, prayer, supplication with thanksgiving and peace beyond all understanding.  This is spiritual life, and this is what we are given to experience every time we come together for the Liturgy. All of this is grounded in our acceptance of the testimony St. John the Baptist gave concerning Jesus in today’s Gospel lesson. He is no run of the mill prophet, but rather the Lamb of God who in his death on the Cross takes away the sin of the world.

THE LESSON : PHILIPPIANS 4. 4-7

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