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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
living the baptized life under God’s forgiveness….For more, click on the title above.

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.

This week provides another opportunity this year to hear Psalm 2 as part of the Lord’s Services to us. In this place, its divinely inspired words that declare the Christ may be heard each Christmas Day, at the Transfiguration of our Lord, on Easter Tuesday, today, and during the minor Feast of St. Joseph. Psalm 2 continues to be proclaimed among us primarily because it is a thoroughly Christological text. That means that Psalm 2 declares Christ Jesus as King of kings!…For more, click on the title above.

The Word of the Lord in the Psalm section appointed for today begins with a question. That begins to be answered by in the same verse. The answer then continues through the following seven verses.
Today’s eight psalm lines reveal how beautiful, wonderful, beneficial, and important it is to meditate upon God’s Word. They proclaim that is done as faithful people audibly declare His Word. As many of us have heard here over the decades, God’s Word is not meant to be read silently. It is to be spoken, chanted, or sung that it might enter into the ears of speakers and hearers alike….For more, click on the title above.

For centuries, this biblical adage has been spoken concerning today’s Psalm: Our righteousness is called (in plain language) the forgiveness of our sins.
That should lead us who have been regular hearers of God’s Word here on Sundays or Wednesdays during this time of year to remember its themes. They are, Holy Absolution (the forgiveness of sins) and Sanctification (the manner in which the Holy Spirit, working through God’s Word leads the repentant faithful into holy living). …For more, click on the title above.