Tag: Festival

Resurrection Day_2026

He Is Risen. Look, There Is the Place They Laid Him by Michael Torevell

Resurrection Day

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A Beautiful Feast of and for Living People.

Ghent Altarpiece: Adoration of the Lamb by Jan van Eyck

“This is a day wherein, at this Festival Service, we will take time to remember the members of this congregation who fell asleep in Christ in the past year. As we do that, we are called to remember that the All Saints’ Feast has been handed on to our generation of the Faith. Further, as we
have received it rightly, we recall that this Feast Day has been accompanied by an ongoing prayer that it will be celebrated as a beautiful feast of and for living people.
Therefore, we declare that All Saints’ Day has been given to us to bring forth a remembrance of God’s grace and mercy for all the saints in heaven and on earth. That emphasis for this day has been in the Church for over 1,600 years. It was added to the Church calendar in the land of Syria.
From that, the joining of the primary readings for today was done, long ago, to bring clarity to the beatitudes that we heard from St. Matthew’s Gospel. Those are the “blessed be” proclamations of our Lord. Those may be heard in the Lord’s Services each year especially during this Feast Day.”
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Reformation_2025

Lutero expone al público sus tesis from Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla

Festival of the Reformation

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He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear.

Lutero expone al público sus tesis from Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla

Over time, the Church has heard a number of things. In its first days, the Church heard
the public preaching of Peter, Paul, and the other Apostles, as well as the cries of glee and horror as they were martyred. It heard Constantine end it’s persecution. It listened closely as the Church Fathers fought over confessing rightly the Trinity and the divinity of the Son of God. The Church
listened as Islam threatened to wipe the Truth and Word of God away, all the while seeking to replace it with lies, hatred, and the worship of an idol. The Church heard the ground rumble from the marching of boots and hooves as armies advanced under the banner of the Faith as they
waged wars across the land in the crusades. ”
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