Presentation of the Lord in the Temple – Feb 2, 2025 – Bulletin

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE

February 2, 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.

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Epiphany 3 – January 26, 2025 – Bulletin

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 we have the manifestation, the epiphany of Christ, who comes with Divine Power to heal wounded souls and bodies, and describes  for us the dynamics at play in our own healing encounters with Christ. What does the healed life look like? This is what St. Paul describes for us in today’s Epistle lesson.

THE LESSON : Romans 12:16-21

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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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