THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
July 7, 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 Trinity, which is the season dedicated to our spiritual growth as Christians, the Church invites us to become “partakers of the divine nature” ( 2 Peter 1.4). According to the teaching of the Church Fathers, this path to union and communion with God necessitates a cleansing of the heart of the passions, as we state in the prayer of confession in The Book of Common Prayer,” we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.” In today’s Gospel the passion in question is that of anger against our enemy, the ungrateful, and selfish which Christ exhorts to transcend through love, doing good, blessing, charity, kindness, and mercy, in imitation of God. This is the path we were set on in our baptism, where we consider ourselves “dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus, as St. Paul describes in today’s Epistle.
THE LESSON: Romans 6. 3-11.
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For he who has died is freed from sin. 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. 9 For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
THE HOLY GOSPEL: Luke 6.27-36.
7 “But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. 30 Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. 31 And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return;[b]and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
PARISH LIFE NOTES
ST. MARY’S SUMMER INTERN. We welcome Carter, who has been hired as part of the Canada Summer Job Program. Carter will be supporting the ministry of St. Mary’s this summer through a variety of tasks including: leading Gospel in the Garden on Sunday mornings, administrative support in the office, liturgical duties at week day services, grounds-keeping and building maintenance, candle-making, preparing baking for Sunday coffee, and supporting the Berry Festival. Welcome Carter!
SASKATOON BERRY FESTIVAL
SATURDAY, July 20, 2024, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm
St Mary’s Anglican Church
3337—15th Avenue, Regina
306-522-6052
FEATURING:
- Prairie Berries Saskatoons (5 lbs=$25), Pies ($20)
- Specialty Products from Saskatchewan’s North
- Coffee House serving pie and refreshments
- Activities for Children
- Family Vespers in the church at 5:00 pm
Pre-order your berries and pies … CLICK/TAP HERE!
Get ready for our Saskatoon Berry Festival on July 20!
How can you help? Invite your friends and family, and encourage them to pre-order berries and pies! Sell tickets to the people you work and volunteer with! Donate baking and preserves for our market! Volunteer to help out with set-up, take-down, and running the event! And plan to bring someone on July 20 to enjoy some pie and ice cream, hang out by the bonfire, take part in kids’ activities on the lawn, and stop by our specialty food market in the upper hall!
WORSHIP THIS WEEK
MORNING PRAYER resumes this week : Monday to Friday at 8.30 a.m.
EVENING PRAYER: Wednesday at 5.30 p.m.