All Saints Day
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Category: Worship
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Festival of the Reformation
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God’s majestic name
This Sunday that lands in Michaeltide this year does include texts that reinforce the twin themes emphases for this subseason. They are, as many of you have heard repeated, endurance in the Faith of Christ, and Holy Baptism. Today’s Psalm can serve to remind us of those themes with words like these:
From (the) mouth of babes and sucking ones You have built strength because of Your foe, to cause to stop the enemy and adversary.
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Trinity 21
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The wedding garment
Hear again the Word of the Lord which commends itself to us today,
“for many are called ones, but few are elect.”
Jesus pronounces this statement to conclude the parable that you just heard read. It is a hard saying. It is made more so by virtue of the vehicle of delivery, a parable, in a series of parables. Many questions arise as we consider the Gospel reading. The broadest is, what does Jesus mean? Others follow: Who are the many? Who are the elect? Who is Jesus addressing?….For more, click on the title above.
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Trinity 20
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Trinity 19
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Repenting and living the baptized life
The theme for this 19th Sunday after Trinity that focuses us upon our enduring in the Faith God gives through the water and Word is this:
Believers in Christ endure in the Faith as they continue repenting and
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The Righteous Man
This time of year traditionally starts with the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. That was celebrated among us this past Wednesday. This year, to help us keep to the old pattern that guides the weeks of the Trinity Season, in order to give us enough weeks in Michaeltide, last Sunday we inaugurated this fourth section of the Trinity season. Today a different green is in the chancel.
That green, a take on olive drab, reminds us that we are still in the time to remember the growth and new life we have in Christ in the Church. This division of the Trinity Sunday readings emphasizes endurance in the Faith. …For more, click on the title above.
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Trinity 18
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