Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Trent Pettit (9 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke (11:15 am)
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Trent Pettit (8 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke (5 pm)
  

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

Partners in the Gospel: Reading Philippians Together - Hall Life Center
Family Matters - Room L16 & L18

Children's Sunday School

• Birth - age 2, Rm 104
• Age 3 - Kinder, Rms L8, L9
• Grades 1 - 5, Scout Rm

Youth Sunday School – Room 238
Youth Confirmation – Youth Room

Happening Today

Contemplative Prayer Workshop
Have you ever wanted your bible knowledge to move from your head into your heart so your life would change? Do you long for quiet and stillness in your busy, noisy lives to hear God’s quiet voice? Please join us at 10:15 am in Room 203 in learning simple practices that Christians have used to connect deeply with God for centuries, and then have a group to support you in your practice.

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ's glory, that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

John 2:1-11

2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

Musical Offering in the Church

Epiphany is known as the season of light. We pray in today’s collect “Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ’s glory, that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth.” As such, our musical offerings reference this “light of Christ.” At the Introit, we hear the prayer “Eternal light, shine in our heart” as set to music by 20th Century American composer Leo Sowerby. At the Offertory, the SJD Chorale sings the Charles Wesley hymn “Christ, whose glory fills the skies” by T. Frederick H. Candlyn, an English-born organist, composer, and choirmaster who spent most of his professional career at two Episcopal churches in New York, most notably St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue.

At the Ministration, we hear a deeply spiritual text by Douglas J.L. Bean describing the mystery surrounding the Holy Eucharist – Christ comes to us, gives us life, and we abide in him. It is set to music by Anglican composer William Harris. Our processional hymn, “Songs of thankfulness praise,” proclaims the successive Manifestations of Christ that we experience throughout the Epiphany season. The text speaks of his miraculous birth, his baptism, his first miracles, and his transfiguration.