August 2023

The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 27 August A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 70:1-2a;70:2b, 4a, 5b;34:1-2;81:1 ✠ Lection: Isaiah 29:17–24;2 Corinthians 3:4-11;Mark 7:31-37 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Disabilities that plague the human body and mind are not uncommon among us. In quite humbling ways, they become scenarios through which God teaches us to love one another, for it is He Who has first loved us as He looked upon us all who are burdened with the corrupting disability of sin. By the new heart that He gives, what were once only thoughts ofRead More →

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The Tenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 13 August A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 55:16a, 17b, 18a, 22a;55:1, 4-5, 16;17:8, 2;88:1 ✠ Lection: Jeremiah 7:1-11;1 Corinthians 12:2-11;Luke 19:41-48 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. As Jesus drew near Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, speaking words of lament and woe that ended with, “because you did not know τὸν καιρὸν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς σου (because you did not know the time of your visitation).” I bring up the Greek because that next to last word ἐπισκοπῆς, or visitation, is the same root from whichRead More →

The Ninth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 6 August A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 54:4-5; 54:1-3, 7;8:1;112:1 ✠ Lection: Proverbs 16:1-9;1 Corinthians 10:6b-13;Luke 16:1-9 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The unjust steward is a marvelous parable, just as are all those given to us from the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ. In our annual encounter with it, as with all parables, we must continue to remember to seek first what is being taught to us about God, and, only then, secondly what a godly response from us would look like. Without the prior, theRead More →

The Seventh Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 23 July A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 47:1, 47:3, 6-8;34:11, 5;59:1 ✠ Lection: Isaiah 62:6-12;Romans 6:19-23;St. Mark 8:1-9 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Following Jesus in this life brings about many challenges. Those challenges wouldn’t exist if there were no devil, world, or sinful nature, but since those three are at constant work against God and the new creations into which He has made us, everyday struggles abound. This is sure to be true when we consider the places from which we have come, that is, being conceivedRead More →