Septuagesima – February 16, 2025 – Bulletin

SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY

February 16, 2025

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

It all  begins today, that is to say the countdown to Lent, and to Easter, begins today. Septuagesima, which is Latin for 70, marks the beginning of a season of preparation for the 40 days of Lent, in which through the recovery of the disciplines of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving we begin to earnestly prepare  to celebrate the death and resurrection of the Lord in Holy Week and Easter, and our own death and resurrection in Him. In our Gospel lesson today Jesus tells the parable of the workers of the vineyard, which comes to us an image of the spiritual labour of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving we are about to enter into in Lent. In today’s epistle lesson, St. Paul gives us another image of Lent: that of athletic training in preparation for receiving a crown of glory that does not fade away.

THE LESSON : 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

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Epiphany 5 February 9, 2025 Bulletin

THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

February 9, 2025

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

Today marks the end for us of the season of Epiphany, which is manifestation of the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But there is so much in the world, in the Church, and in ourselves that denies, darkens, and obscures the Light. How are we to account for this, and more importantly, what are we to do about it?  In today’s Gospel Jesus tells the parable in which “ an enemy” sows weeds in the midst of the field that has been sown with wheat, and where the householder advises the slaves to let them both grow together until the harvest, when the separation of the good from the evil will take place. Today’s Epistle lesson complements and illustrates the Gospel where St. Paul exhorts us recognize the limitations of our judgements, and to practice forgiveness and mutual forbearance towards  one another.

THE LESSON : Colossians 3:12-17

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Presentation of the Lord in the Temple – Feb 2, 2025 – Bulletin

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE

February 2, 2025

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.

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Epiphany 3 – January 26, 2025 – Bulletin

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 today’s Gospel we have the manifestation, the epiphany of Christ, who comes with Divine Power to heal wounded souls and bodies, and describes  for us the dynamics at play in our own healing encounters with Christ. What does the healed life look like? This is what St. Paul describes for us in today’s Epistle lesson.

THE LESSON : Romans 12:16-21

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Epiphany 2 January 19, 2025 – Bulletin

THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

January 19 , 2025

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

The season of Epiphany celebrates the shining or showing forth of God, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. The Gospel lessons in the season of Epiphany serve to highlight  some aspect of God’s Divine Life, Wisdom, Love, and Power which Christ manifested. Our Gospel lesson tells the story of the miraculous turning of water into wine at the wedding of Cana. But the Divine Life which Christ manifests is something given to us to partake and participate in, so that we in turn are transformed and become an epiphany. How this is so is described for us in today’s Epistle lesson, where St. Paul describes the spiritual gifts which God pours out upon the Church, and the character of our Christian lives.

THE LESSON : Romans 12:6-16

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