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Second Sunday after Christmas, January 5, 2025

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The family has gone home after a wonderful visit for Christmas. I will be back recording next week. Thank you for your patience.

The Collect: O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Collect and Psalms are from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer.

The Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel are from the Amplified Bible.

Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:7-14

Psalm: Psalm 84 or 84:1-8

Epistle: Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a

Gospel: Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 or Luke 2:41-52 or Matthew 2:1-12

Closing Prayer: On January 9 we celebrate the life of Julia Chester Emery Missionary. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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Third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 15

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The Collect and Psalm will be read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

The Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel will be read from the World English Bible

The Collect: Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

Old Testament: Zephaniah 3:14-20

Psalm: Canticle 9 — The First Song of Isaiah (Isaiah 12:2-6)

Epistle: Philippians 4:4-7

Gospel: Luke 3:7-18

On December 15 we celebrate the life of Robert McDonald Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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First Sunday of Advent, December 1

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The Collect and Psalms will be read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

The Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel will be read from The New Revised Standard Version Bible

The Collect: Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Old Testament: Jeremiah 33:14-16

Psalm: Psalm 25:1-10

Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

Gospel: Luke 21:25-36

On December 2 we celebrate the life of Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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