Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Louise Samuelson (9 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke (11:15 am)
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Sutton Lowe
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Louise Samuelson (8 am) & The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (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

Advent: The Witness of Waiting - Hall Life Center

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

Happening Today

Discover Chrismon Ornaments
This Advent, you are invited to discover some of the beautiful Chrismon ornaments created by the women of St. John the Divine. Each Sunday, four pictures will be displayed on a poster for you to find on the Chrismon tree. Download a guide to the 16 ornaments featured in this Advent.

Parents' Advent Social
Mix and mingle with other St. John the Divine parents at an Advent social at 10:15 am in L15 & L16 during the Sunday school hour!

The Collect of the Day
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

John 18:33-37
18:33 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Musical Offering in the Church

The fourth Sunday of Advent traditionally celebrates the Annunciation, the visitation of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, announcing that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God.  The Magnificat (Latin for “My Soul Magnifies the Lord”) is a canticle taken directly from today’s Gospel, where it is spoken by Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. It has been part of the liturgy of the church from the earliest of times. In our tradition, it is one of the appointed canticles for evening prayer and the Song of Simeon (Nunc dimittis). Today, we sing a metrical version of the Magnificat as our final hymn.

At the Offertory, we hear the traditional Latin prayer “Ave Maria” in a musical setting by Bavarian composer Franz Biebl. After its publication in 1992, it quickly became a favorite of choirs and audiences around the globe. During the Ministration, the SJD Chorale sings an arrangement of the Old Basque Carol, which narrates the story of the Annunciation.