October 2023

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Reformation – Sunday 29 October A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 119:46;34:1-2, 11, 22;48:1, 12-13;48:14 ✠ Lection: Revelation 14:6-7;Romans 3:19-28;St. Matthew 11:12-19 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Hear what? Hear how? For do not all with functioning ear lobes and drums hear when things are spoken? Do not all with ears that work hear it when the truth of God is proclaimed? Yes, they do. Yes, you do. But there’s a big cliff just inside the ear, a chasm between ear and heart into which our fleshRead More →

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The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 22 October A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 48:1, 9–11;145:15–16;130:1–2a ✠ Lection: Isaiah 54:17b—55:11;Ephesians 5:15–21;Matthew 22:1–14 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Lord Jesus spoke a parable about the kingdom of heaven to the chief priests and Pharisees. In it, He teaches about how this marvelous kingdom comes and how it will come in its full, unbridled measure on the Last Day. Tucked into the parable are truths hidden from eyes that cannot see, but revealed for the comfort and assurance to those of us whom the Holy SpiritRead More →

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The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 15 October A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 35:3b;34:17a, 6b;48:14a;78:1–3, 4b;141:1–2;98:1a ✠ Lection: Isaiah 44:21–23;Ephesians 4:22–28;Matthew 9:1–8 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Which is easier when crossing a small sea: to get into a boat powered only by wind in its sail and human muscle thrusting it forward by the use of paddles and oars as it fights the imbalance of waves, the heat of the sun, opposing headwinds, and whatever else comes in Creation’s demand for submission to its might; or, to walk at a leisurely pace acrossRead More →

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The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 8 October A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Ecclesiasticus 36:21-22a; Psalm 122:1, 6, 8-9;122:1, 7;130:1-2a ✠ Lection: Deut. 10:12-21;1 Cor. 1:4-8;St. Matthew 22:34-46 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The will of God is always best and He has revealed His will to us in His Holy Word in both Law and Gospel. We are not to pit these two against one another as if they are opposed or as if there is any variation or shadow of turning with God and with what He says. He has given us bothRead More →

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The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 1 October A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 119:137, 124; 1–2, 5–6;33:12, 6;116:1 ✠ Lection: Proverbs 25:6–14;Ephesians 4:1–6;Luke 14:1–11 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We all want the world to be a better place, or at least a good place by what we each understand as good, which would mean a betterment of it if we’re not there yet by our individual measures. If we say that we desire unity among all peoples, then here it is: we all want something better. We’re at least unified in that desire.Read More →

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St. Michael and All Angels – Friday 29 September A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 103:20;103:1, 21-22; 91:11;103:1; Revelation 12:11 ✠ Lection: Daniel 12:1–3; Revelation 12:7–12a; St. Matthew 18:1-11 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When we consider the might of St. Michael and all angels to keep charge over us and to keep us in all our ways, we consider the source of their power and ours: God Himself. For without Him all created beings would claw and scrape only by their own strength and power. Therefore, we must consider what war is fought in RevelationRead More →