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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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Sunday After Christmas December 29, 2024

THE SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS

December 29 , 2024

CHRIST IS BORN! GLORIFY HIM!

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  Gospel lesson  for today from St. Matthew  underlines both the supernatural and the scriptural character of the birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary, and also highlights for us the key role that Joseph played in this drama, whose righteous conduct serves as an illustration for us of what it means for us to live as those who though baptism have received the Holy Spirit and adoption as sons and heirs of God.

THE LESSON : Galatians 4:1-7

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Advent Four December 22, 2024 – Bulletin

THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT

December 22 , 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 season of Advent where we have been preparing ourselves from the Coming of the Lord is drawing to a close. What does it mean for us to welcome and receive Christ at His Coming? Paul’s Letter to the Philippians speaks about joy, patience, prayer, supplication with thanksgiving and peace beyond all understanding.  This is spiritual life, and this is what we are given to experience every time we come together for the Liturgy. All of this is grounded in our acceptance of the testimony St. John the Baptist gave concerning Jesus in today’s Gospel lesson. He is no run of the mill prophet, but rather the Lamb of God who in his death on the Cross takes away the sin of the world.

THE LESSON : PHILIPPIANS 4. 4-7

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Advent Three – December 15, 2024 – Bulletin

THE THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT

December 15 , 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 this season of Advent the Church is inviting and encourgaing us to be awake, attentive, watchul for Jesus Christ who is the Comong One. “He came to us in great humility”, and He will” come again in His Glorious Majesty” to judge both the living and the dead. But Advent is also about His Coming to us in the present time, which is both Judgement and Grace. In our Epistle lesson, St. Paul directs us to entrust  “pronouncing judgement” to Christ, whose Judgement will be just. Our Gospel lesson presents us with the figure of John the Baptist, as the great exemplar of watching and waiting, and who came to prepare the way of the Lord.  But John, much like ourselves,  found himself  wondering, in the face of so much injustice, whether he had misjudged the situation in pointing people to Christ. Jesus directs John (and us) to be attentive to signs of His Coming, and the presence of His kingly reign and rule in our midst.

THE LESSON : 1 Corinthians 4. 1-5

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Advent Two – December 8, 2024 – Bulletin

THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT

December 8 , 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 Second Sunday in Advent has traditionally been known as “ Bible Sunday” on account  of today’s Collect and Epistle reading from Romans where St. Paul points us to the crucial role the Scriptures play in instructing us in the faith and providing us with steadfastness, encouragement, and most importantly hope, which through the Holy Spirit fills us with joy and peace. Our Gospel lesson picks up our Advent theme of the coming of Christ in glory to judge the living and the dead, and teaches us to see the collapse of the present world order, and the resulting chaos and confusion, not as on occasion for despair but signs of the coming of Him who makes all things new.

THE LESSON : Romans 15.4-13 

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