Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Trent Pettit
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Trent Pettit
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Libby Garfield (8 am) & The Rev. David Goldberg (5 pm)
• Epiphany Evensong and Feast of Lights | 5 pm in the Church – The Rev. Sutton Lowe

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements) 
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Tabernacle, Temple Today – Hall Life Center
Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – Scout Room

Children's Sunday School 

• 2 months - age 2 | Rm 104 (8:30 am — 12:30 pm)
• 2-year-olds | Rm 110 & 112
• Age 3 - Kinder | Rm L07, L08
• Traditional Sunday school: Poptarts and Parables | Rm L16
• 1st-3rd grade | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd | Rm L17
• 4th - 5th grade | Rm L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

Youth Sunday School – Rm 236
Youth Confirmation – Youth Room

Happening Today

Tabernacle, Temple, Today
Come to the Hall Life Center at 10:15 am for the 2nd session of this three-week parish-wide adult Sunday school course that will explore the theological and historical significance of the most important physical spaces in Scripture: the Tabernacle and the Temple.

A Skeptic's Guide to Jewish Rabbi Sermon Series
Join us for this Modern Worship series at 11:05 am in the Hall Life Center. A Skeptic’s Guide to a Jewish Rabbi is a sermon series for believers, questioners, and the simply curious. Rather than assuming easy answers, this series approaches Jesus first as a rabbi: a teacher who asked hard questions, told challenging stories, and invited people into deeper ways of seeing God, themselves, and the world.

Epiphany Evensong and Feast of Lights
Join us for our January Evensong, celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany. Led by our SJD Choristers and Adult Chorale, this reflective service of music and prayer will feature compositions by Jan Sweelinck, Phillip Radcliffe, and Eleanor Daley. After Evensong, we will celebrate with the Burning of the Greens, the Chalking of the Door, and the Roasting of the Marshmallows.

Student Ministry Council Meeting
All youth are welcome to participate in our Student Ministry Council in the Youth Room at 5:30 pm. We will focus on shaping the youth group in ways that students want, so that it is a place where they feel welcome and comfortable. Hearing students' feedback is our top priority, so please come share your ideas and thoughts at the Student Ministry Council meetings! The meeting will take place right before Youth Game Night

Youth Game Night: Mystery Night
All youth are invited to Youth Mystery Game Night, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. We will meet in the Hall Life Center for dinner, then head outside for game time. This is a fun way for our youth, grades 6-12, to get to know one another better and grow in their relationships with each other and Christ.

The Collect of the Day

Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

Matthew 3:13-17

3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. 16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Musical Offering in the Church

On this the first Sunday after the Epiphany, we commemorate the baptism of Christ and the Holy Spirit descending as a dove and speaking the words “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Christ’s baptism is one of the five major milestones in the gospel narrative of the life of Jesus, the others being the Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. As we commemorate the baptism of our Lord, it is likewise appropriate that we celebrate Holy Baptism across all our liturgies today.

The devotional 12th Century Latin hymn “Jesu, dulcis memoria” has been widely sung over the centuries in both its original Latin form and later in a 19th Century English translation, “Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee.” Our worship begins at the Introit with a 16th Century setting of the Latin text by Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria (#642 in our hymnal).   

Christus is the title given by the composer’s brother Paul to fragments of an unfinished oratorio on the life of Christ by Felix Mendelssohn, published posthumously as Op. 97. Today at the Offertory, the Chorale sings the well-known chorus from this work, “There shall a star from Jacob shine forth,” which concludes with the chorale “How brightly shines the morning star” (#496 in our hymnal).

You are invited to return this afternoon at 5:00pm for our Epiphany Evensong sung by the Choir of St. John the Divine. A reception follows in the Julia Garden with the burning of the greens.

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