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Not as Fools
The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity The Holy Scriptures have a lot to say about fools. The word “fool” or its relatives “foolish,” “foolishly,” and “fools” appear at least 188 times in the Authorized Version, excluding the Apocrypha. During this season of the year, the Daily Office lectionary highlights the importance of avoiding foolishness as…
Knit Together
All Saints’ Day For all the saints, who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy Name, O Jesu, be forever blest. Alleluia! Allleluia! This holy day, as with every instance in which we worship, we join our voices “with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven,…
Direct and Rule Our Hearts
The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity “O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee, mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Collect of the Day) Come, Thou Fount of eve’y blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy…
Withstand
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the works thy hands hath made, I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder, thy pow’r throughout the universe displayed; Then sings my soul, my Savior-God, to thee: How great thou art! How great thou art! Then sings…
Prevent Us & Follow Us
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity The Church’s one Foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is His new creation By water and the word: From heaven He came and sought her To be His holy Bride; With His own blood he bought her, And for her life He died. Christians are not trailblazers. We…
God Hath Visited His People
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus! Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free; Rolling as a mighty ocean In its fullness over me. Underneath me, all around me, Is the current of thy love; Leading onward, leading homeward, To my glorious rest above. When God became man, He found His chosen people…
Seek Ye First
The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity Seek Ye first the kingdom of God And His righteousness And all these things shall be added unto you. Allelu, Alleluia. We are distracted beings. Along the Way of salvation are detours deviously trapping us like the tourist pausing to gander at the roadside attraction. At best, we lost a…
The Taxman
Feast of St. Matthew St. Matthew’s calling is a beautiful display of God’s love for each human being, right where He finds us. St. Matthew is introduced to us as a passing thought at first glance. We learn that Jesus is passing from his healing a man (inflaming the scribes by forgiving his sins) when…
Laudable Service
The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity ~ Almighty Father, who dost give The gift of life to all who live, Look down on all earth’s sin and strife, And lift us to a nobler life. What praiseworthy, or “laudable service,” may we render to the Almighty Creator of the cosmos and earth? We are mere creatures…
More Ready to Hear Than We Are to Pray – The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer’s praise. The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of his grace! The Christian walk can be a confusing one. You travel the path less traveled, the one blazed by the Lord Christ, and despite progressing towards the Lord, one can find themselves encountering…