St. Mary's Regina

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY               

September 14, 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 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.

THE LESSON : Galatians 5:16-24

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TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY               

September 7, 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.

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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EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY               

August 10, 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 LESSON: Romans 8 :12-17

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SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY               

August 3, 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

Bob Dylan famously wrote, “You may be an ambassador to England or France. You may like to gamble, you might like to dance. You may be the heavyweight champion of the world. You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls. But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed. You’re gonna have to serve somebody. Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord. But you’re gonna have to serve somebody…” It’s an idea which Paul articulates in today’s Epistle lesson. As those who have been baptized into the death and resurrection of Christ, we  have been set free from our slavery to sin, and now become slaves to righteousness.”  But how is that God nourishes us and sustains us in our life in Christ? The chief way is by means of the Holy Communion. Our Gospel lesson for today tells the story of the feeding of the 4,000, where Jesus took, gave thanks, broke and distributed the seven loaves and a few fish, which is for us an image of the Eucharistic feeding we experience every Sunday, whereby our souls and bodies strengthened and preserved unto eternal life..

THE LESSON: Romans 6 :17-23

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