Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (9 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke (11:15 am)
• 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 – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (8 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke (5 pm)
• Choral Evensong | 5 pm in the Church – The Rev. Louise Samuelson
  

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
Foundations Class – Parlor
Lectionary Lectio Divina Group – Chapel Bride's Room
Family Matters – L16 & L18

Children's Sunday School

• Birth - age 2, Rm 104
• Age 3 - Kinder, Rms L8, L9
• Grades 1 - 3, Scout Rm
• Grades 4 & 5, L19 & L 20

Youth Sunday School – Room 238
Youth Confirmation – Youth Room

Happening Today

Foundations Class Begins
Join Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit, the Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill, and our clergy in the Parlor at 10:15 am to learn and discuss the foundations of our Christian faith from the Episcopal perspective. We will cover topics like Scripture and tradition, sacraments and spiritual disciplines, and the ins and outs of Sunday worship.

Lectionary Lectio Divina Group Begins
Please join us in the Chapel Bride's Room at 10:15 am to practice going deeper into Sunday’s gospel lesson using Lectio Divina and sitting together in God’s presence in Centering Prayer.

Scout Sunday
Join us at the 11:15 am service in the Church as we honor our Scouting programs and recognize current and past scouts.

Choral Evensong
The Choir of St. John the Divine will lead a service of sung evening prayer at 5 pm in the Church. Learn more about Evensong at St. John the Divine.

The Collect of the Day

Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Luke 2:22-40

2:22 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” 25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, 28 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,

29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace,
   according to your word;
30  for my eyes have seen your salvation
31  that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32  a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
   and for glory to your people Israel.”

33 And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed 35 (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

36 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. 38 And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

39 And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.

Musical Offering in the Church

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