FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
9:30 AM - LAUDS 10:00 AM - HOLY EUCHARIST The Rev. Sarah Lamming will preside at the Eucharist. Dean Lloyd S. Casson will be the Homilist. Anthem - ****Comfort, O Lord, the soul of thy servant **** William Crotch Cathedral Singers
All are invited to worship with us during this holy season of Lent. The Rev. Sarah Lamming will be be the Presider at the Eucharist. Dean Lloyd Casson will the Homlist.
The Lectio Divina Lenten Series follows the 10:00 AM Eucharist
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCRIPTURES – March 14, 2010
JOSHUA 5:9-12. Throughout their forty year journey through the wilderness from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan, the Israelites had been provided for by God’s gift of manna. Now that they had entered the land, they recalled their escape from Egypt as usual by celebrating the festival of the Passover. This time they used the produce of Canaan to make their unleavened bread. On that same day, the gift of manna ended.
PSALM 32. The relation of sickness to sin was common to all people in ancient times. This psalm reflects that attitude. While we no longer accept such limited view of sickness, we may still reflect the penitence with which every sinner approaches God and trusts in God’s forgiveness.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21. This most significant of all of Paul’s interpretations of the meaning of Christ’s life, death and resurrection contains three key words: reconciliation, the world, and ambassadors. In this instance, reconciliation meant a renewed relationship with God established through Christ. The world referred to the whole of creation, not just our planet Earth. An ambassador represented and interpreted his/her country in a foreign land.
Paul believed that because we have been given a new relationship with God through Christ, we are now God’s representatives in the world, and perhaps also the universe, which God has destined for re-creation through love.
LUKE 15:11-32. The parable of the lost son welcomed home by his forgiving father tells the whole gospel of God’s reconciling love in Jesus Christ in short story form. But what of the elder brother? Did he ever become reconciled?
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11 Mar, 2010 — Daniel Tomko
