The first portion of the video is our confirmand reviewing the creed and the explanations. The service begins at 11:33 on the video. Trinity Sunday Imagine a married man saying something like this: “I know that I was united in marriage to a woman several years ago, but I can’t remember which woman it was,…
Acts 2:1-21 We have passed through the first half of the church year, which was marked in sequence by the four chief festivals of Jesus Christ: the festival of his nativity, the festival of his epiphany or manifestation to the gentiles, the festival of his resurrection, and the festival of his ascension. These festivals remind…
Easter 7 – Acts 11:1-18 Please listen with me to a reading from the 11th chapter of the Book of Acts, beginning at the 1st verse: Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the…
Ephesians 1:15-22 – Ascension In his Epistle to the Ephesians, St. Paul prays “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope…
John 16:23-33 In today’s Gospel from St. John, Jesus says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” This is one of many passages in…