St. Mary's Regina

DEDICATION SUNDAY

October 27, 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 Gospel reading appointed for The Dedication Festival of a Parish Church we hear the story of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and the cleansing of Temple that took place, which comes to us as a reminder of the establishment of church buildings as places set apart for prayer and the praise and worship of God. But what is a church  building without a praying, worshipping congregation? I n our Epistle reading, St. Peter develops the theme of the congregation as spiritual house, a holy nation, and holy priesthood. 

THE LESSON : 1 Peter 2:1-10

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TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

October 20, 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 focus of the season of Trinity in our church calendar is our on spiritual growth and maturing as Christians. In today’s Epistle lesson St. Paul reminds us that the Christian life is one of conflict. This is a timely message for the fragmented, divided, conflicted times in which we live where we imagine the problem is other people, whom we must defeat by whatever political, economic, and military  means available. But this is to misdiagnose the problem. St. Paul reminds us that our conflict is spiritual in nature, and needs to be addressed spiritually. Our Gospel lesson today tells story of the royal official of the city of Capernaum, interceded with Christ to heal his son, and who believed the word which Jesus spoke. Such is the power of Christ to protect us from all the temptations of our ages which seek to distort the Christian faith , and heal the spiritual afflictions of our times.

THE LESSON : Ephesians 6:10-20

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HARVEST THANKSGIVING

October 13, 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 human person/soul has been created by God as a unity of body and spirit. Materialism, a philosophy which acknowledges the reality of our physical needs in the form of food, clothing, shelter, etc.,  and  denies the spiritual dimension of our lives, and spiritualism, a philosophy which accepts spiritual reality, but denies the body as the bearer of the Spirit, are both destructive to thus unity. There is a physical labour and food which we need, as well as spiritual labour and food which we need.  The lessons for this Harvest Thanksgiving service highlight for us that Christ, who is the Incarnate ( enfleshed) Word of God,  as the source of life for both the body and the spirit, bestowing us with meaningful, purposeful, satisfying  existence in this life , and in the world to come, life everlasting.

THE LESSON : Isaiah 55:1-12

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NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

October 6, 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 our Gospel lesson today, St. Matthew describes for us the healing of the paralytic, which comes to us an illustration of the power and authority of Christ to heal the afflictions of our souls, and not just our bodies, through the forgiveness of sins., something we experience every Sunday morning in the Holy Communion. Sin, truly, is a paralyzing force in our lives, which deadens, and keeps us from doing the good God would have us do. In forgiveness, God causes us to stand up from the bed of our paralysis, and walk in newness of life.  Just what that newness of life consists of, and looks like, is what St. Paul describes for us in our Epistle reading from his Letter to the Ephesians.

THE LESSON : Ephesians 4:17-32

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EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

September 29, 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, the Lord gives us the Summary of the Law of Moses which we know so well from the service of Holy Communion  in The Book of Common Prayer. This Summary of the Law of Moses is the foundation for our worship and spiritual life, and contains the whole meaning of out lives. But , as Jesus pointed out to the scribe, the Law is unable to establish the kingdom of God within  and among us. This kingdom , in which the power of sin, death, and the devil has been defeated, is something we receive through the death and resurrection of the God/Man Jesus Christ. It’s why Jesus immediately directs our attention to the premier Messianic Psalm,  Psalm 110, where we discover that the Messiah , Jesus, is David’s “Son” with respect to His humanity, and David’s “Lord” with respect to His divinity, and thus our Savior! In our Epistle reading, St. Paul shows how it is that we are sustained in spiritual life and holiness by our union with Jesus Christ. 

THE LESSON : 1 Corinthians 1:4-9

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