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.

THE LESSON : Luke 19:41-47

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Trinity 9 July 28 2024 Bulletin

NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

JULY 28, 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 human soul possesses three aspects or powers: the rational ( the mind) , the desiring ( the will), and the incesive (the heart) . In the properly ordered human soul, the three powers work together to fulfill the commandments of God. The mind conceives of the good, the will desires the good, and the heart frights for the good. Sin has disordered the human soul, whereby the mind is drawn away from divine to purely human concerns, and we end up desiring and pursuing the wrong things to our destruction. IN the season of Trinity we are discovering what it means for us to put the house of our souls in order.  Our Epistle reading from 1 Corinthians 10 St. Paul recalls the example of the Israelites in the desert who gave free reign to their disordered sensual desires for food and sex, which Paul identifies as idolatry or false worship, and makes us liable to judgement.  It is for this reason that in today’s Collect we ask God to give us the spirit to think such things as be rightful, and his grace to desire and accomplish the good. Our Gospel lesson for today tells the story of the unjust steward who is commended for his prudence, for using this worlds goods in such a way as to be received into the eternal habitations.

THE LESSON : 1 Corinthians 10:1-17

I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same supernatural food and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Neverthelesswith most of them God was not pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance.” We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents; nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore let any onewho thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols. I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

THE HOLY GOSPEL: Luke 16:1-10

Then Jesus said to the disciples, ‘There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, “What is this that I hear about you? Give me an account of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.” Then the manager said to himself, “What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.” So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, “How much do you owe my master?” He answered, “A hundred jugs of olive oil.” He said to him, “Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.” Then he asked another, “And how much do you owe?” He replied, “A hundred containers of wheat.” He said to him, “Take your bill and make it eighty.”  And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternalhomes. ‘Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.

PARISH LIFE NOTES

RECTOR’S VACATION. Claude will be away from the parish from July 28- Aug 18. For Pastoral emergencies place call Revd. Winna Martin at 306-536-4308.

WORSHIP THIS WEEK

Morning Prayer: Monday to Friday at 8.30 a.m.

Evening Prayer: Wednesday at 5.30 p.m.