Trinity 14 September 1, 2024 Bulletin
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
September 1, 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.
Our Epistle and Gospel lesson for today continue the theme of spiritual life which we have been exploring these last few weeks. The Gospel lesson tells the story of Christ’s healing of the 10 lepers, which is for us a picture and promise of the power of Christ to heal not only the seemingly incurable diseases of our bodies, but more importantly the diseases of our souls. This is what is given to us to experience and receive by faith through our participation in the sacramental life of the Church. What kind of diseases are we talking about? In today’s Epistle reading St Paul describes the “leprous condition” of self-conceit, or vain-glory, and envy, which wrecks such havoc in our relationships, and is healed through the acquisition of humility and the practice of thanksgiving.
THE LESSON : 5:25-26, 6:1-5
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Trinity 13 August 25 2024 Bulletin
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
August 25 , 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 sets before us the goal and purpose of the Christian life, which is to share and participate in the Divine Nature ( 2 Peter 1.4), which Christ has revealed as self-emptying love. (Philippians 2.7). In our Epistle reading for today from The Letter to the Galatians, St. Paul sets before us both the obstacles that stand in the way of reaching our goal, the satisfaction of self centered desires, and the means of attaining our goal: spiritual life. Our Gospel lesson is the Good Samaritan which not only sets before as picture of the human conditi0n, but also how it is that Christ has come among us in his mercy heal our souls and bodies of the wounds of sin, that we might truly embody God’s mercy and become a neighbor to those in need.
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Trinity 12 August 18 2024 Bulletin
TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
August 18 , 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.
Dejection or accidie, where we lose all hope and just give up, is a real killer in the spiritual life. What is the source of our hope in the impasses, box canyons , and seemingly hopeless situations of our lives? Our hope is in the power of God as demonstrated in today’s Gospel lesson from Mark 7 where Jesus opens the ears and looses the tongue of the deaf and dumb man. This is the Gospel of which we have become ministers, which St. Paul describes as a ministry of spirit which gives life and makes us participants in the glory of God.
THE LESSON : 2 Corinthians 3:4-11
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Trinity 11 August 11, 2024 Bulletin
ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
August 11 , 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.
How is it that The Book of Common Prayer understands sanctification, our becoming holy, as God is holy? Our Collect today points to the mercy and promises of Good whereby we run “the way of God’s commandments”, “obtain his promises,” and thus are “made partakers of God’s heavenly treasure.” In other words, justification is the means of our sanctification. In our Epistle reading for today from 1 Corinthians 15, St. Paul reminds us of the Gospel message on which we take our stand and by which we are saved. In our Gospel reading for today Jesus tells the story of the publican, who for all his sin, trusted in God’s mercy , and was justified, in contrast to the Pharisee, who trusted rather in his religious and good works
THE LESSON : 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Trinity 10 August 4, 2024 Bulletin
TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
August 4 , 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 the classical Christian understanding, the spiritual life proceeds along a path of purification, to illumination, leading to “divinization” that that is, union and communion with God. In the Epistle reading for today from 1 Corinthians 12 the focus is the illumination of the mind that comes through the gifts bestowed by the Holy Spirit in the Church. IN our Gospel lesson from St. Luke Jesus weeps over the city of Jerusalem, and condemns the people who did not recognize the time of His visitation and for turning the Temple from a house of prayer into a den of thieves. St. Paul and the Church Fathers saw the Temple as an image of the soul. The lesson here his that is that if we take pride in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, as if they were ours, we are robbing God of his glory, and must acquire the virtue of humility.
THE LESSON : 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
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