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HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Wedding Feast, John Everett Millais, 1864 Ephesians 5:15-21       St Matthew 22:1-14   Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment?   We are reflecting in these last weeks of Trinity season on the highest stage of the Christian life…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Communion of the Apostles, Justus van Gent, 1467-1474 Ephesians 4:23-28       St Matthew 9:1-8   Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.   These final Sundays in Trinity season are about the heights of our sanctification – union with…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Communion of the Apostles, James Tissot, 1886 1 Corinthians 1:4-8       St Matthew 22:34-46   And the second is like it…   As we make our way through Trinity season, God’s Word, the two readings we are given every Sunday, are calling…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ heals man with dropsy, French Medieval manuscript by Gianluca Ephesians 4:1-6      St Luke 14:1-11   Today’s Gospel reading, written by the beloved physician St. Luke, contains a unique account of Jesus healing a man with dropsy. It is unique,…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Galatians 5:25-6:10       St Matthew 6:24-34 Look at the birds of the air… Look at the lilies of the field…   In these Sundays in Trinity season there seems to be a looping back again and again as we ascend in our readings…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Ten Lepers Cleansed, Illuminated Manuscript Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma   Galatians 5:16-24       St Luke 17:11-19   Lord, have mercy on us (Kyrie Eleison)   As we continue our journey of ascension toward the fullness of life in Christ during this Trinity season,…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Good Samaritan, Eugène Delacroix, 1849 Galatians 3:16-22       St Luke 10:23b-37   “Do this, and you will live.”   We are at the midpoint in Trinity season today – halfway in our reflections on our ascent into the life of God.  And…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Healing of a Deaf-Mute, Manuscript, Ottheinrich Bible, 1425-30 2 Corinthians 3:4-9       St Mark 7:31-37   Looking up to heaven, Jesus sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha”, that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Corinthians 15:1-11       St Luke 18:9-14   Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, And with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit. [Isaiah 57:15a]…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Flevit super illam (He wept over it), Enrique Simonet, 1892 1 Corinthians 12:1-11       St Luke 19:41-47a   My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.   We are ascending into the life of…