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.
As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.’
Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, ‘It is written, “My house shall be a house of prayer”; but you have made it a den of robbers.’ Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him;
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.