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Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
September 1, 2024
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Proverbs 4:10–23\rPsalm: Psalm 119:9–16; antiphon: v. 12\rEpistle: Galatians 5:16–24\rGospel: Luke 17:11–19\rIntroit: Psalm 84:1–2a, 4, 10b, 11b; antiphon: vv. 9–10a\rGradual: Psalm 92:1–2\rVerse: Psalm 65:1\r\rThe Cry of Faith: Lord, Have Mercy\r \rThe ten lepers cried out from a distance, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” (Luke 17:11–19). Their condition cut them off from God and others. So also do the works of the flesh cut us off from God and others. “Those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:16–24). Thus we cry out with the lepers, “Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy,” eagerly seeking His good gifts. Jesus said to the lepers, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed. So too, we walk by faith and not by sight, being confident of Jesus’ help before we see any evidence of it, trusting that Jesus’ cleansing words of forgiveness will restore us to wholeness in the resurrection. Let us be as the one leper who returned to the true High Priest to give Him thanks and glory. For Jesus bore our infirmities in His sacrifice at Calvary. His words are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh (Prov. 4:10–23).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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September 1, 2024 10:45 am - 11:45 am
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Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
September 8, 2024
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: 1 Kings 17:8–16\rPsalm: Psalm 146; antiphon: v. 9a\rEpistle: Galatians 5:25—6:10\rGospel: Matthew 6:24–34\rIntroit: Psalm 86:4, 6, 15a, 16; antiphon: vv. 1a, 2b, 3\rGradual: Psalm 118:8–9\rVerse: Psalm 95:1\r\rAnxious Bondage vs. Confident Trust\r \r“You cannot serve God and money” (Matt. 6:24–34), for they require two contrary forms of service. Worry is the worship given to the false god of mammon, an unbelieving anxiousness and focus on the things of this world. Faith is the worship of the true God, a confident trust that He is a loving Father who will care for all of our needs in both body and soul. The widow of Zarephath served God— that is, she believed the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah that the bin of flour would not be used up nor would the jar of oil run dry (1 Kings 17:8–16). He who feeds the birds and clothes the flowers will certainly provide for our daily needs. For He has already provided for our eternal needs, clothing us with Christ’s righteousness in Baptism and feeding us His body and blood for our forgiveness. With such confidence we are liberated from worry and freed to do good with our material resources, especially to those who are of the household of faith (Gal. 5:25–6:10).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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[F] Holy Cross Day
[F] Holy Cross Day
September 14, 2024
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Numbers 21:4–9\rPsalm: Psalm 40:1–11; antiphon: v. 13\rEpistle: 1 Corinthians 1:18–25\rGospel: John 12:20–33\rIntroit: Psalm 98:1, 4, 6; antiphon: v. 2\rGradual: Isaiah 49:22a; John 3:14b–15\rVerse: Galatians 6:14\r\rThe Exaltation of the Holy Cross\r \r“Sir, we wish to see Jesus” (John 12:21). Then look to His holy cross. For just as Moses lifted up the bronze serpent in the wilderness, so Jesus, when He is “lifted up from the earth, will draw all people” to Himself (John 12:32). “He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” to save us (Phil. 2:8). “Everyone who is bitten” by the ancient serpent’s venom of sin, “when he sees” Christ “shall live” (Num. 21:8). The true holy cross is lost to history, and we cannot return to Calvary to find our salvation. So, Christ brings the New Testament in His blood to us. “We preach Christ crucified …. the power of God and the wisdom of God,” though foolishness to the unbelieving world (1 Cor. 1:23–24). It pleases God, “through the folly” of the cross we preach, “to save those who believe” (1 Cor. 1:21). We find the fruit and benefit of this holy cross poured out in Holy Baptism, spoken in the preaching of Holy Absolution, and delivered in the body and blood given and shed there for us. Thus are we strengthened to take up our crosses, sanctified by His (John 12:25–26).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
September 15, 2024
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: 1 Kings 17:17–24\rPsalm: Psalm 30; antiphon: v. 5b\rEpistle: Ephesians 3:13–21\rGospel: Luke 7:11–17\rIntroit: Psalm 86:1, 7, 12–13; antiphon: vv. 3, 5\rGradual: Psalm 102:15–16\rVerse: Psalm 115:11\r\rJesus Calls forth Life from Death\r \rA large funeral procession carrying the only son of a widow is confronted by another large procession, Jesus and His followers. Death and Life meet face to face at the gate of the city (Luke 7:11–17). Filled with compassion, Jesus comes into direct contact with our mortality in order to overcome it. He touches the coffin and speaks His creative words of life, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” Jesus does what is neither expected nor requested. For through Christ, God the Father “is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think” (Eph. 3:14–21). Jesus bore our death in His body that we may share in His resurrection. Even as Elijah stretched himself out three times over the Zarephath woman’s son (2 Kings 17:17–24), God stretched Himself out over us in the threefold application of His name in the baptismal water, breathing new and everlasting life into us. “To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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[F] St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
[F] St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
September 21, 2024
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Ezekiel 2:8—3:11\rPsalm: Psalm 119:33–40; antiphon: v. 35\rEpistle: Ephesians 4:7–16\rGospel: Matthew 9:9–13\rIntroit: Psalm 92:1–5; antiphon: Matthew 9:13b, c\rGradual: Psalm 119:105, 103; 45:1a, c\rVerse: Matthew 28:19a, 20b\r\rSt. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist\r \rOur ascended Lord gives “gifts” to His Church. In particular, He gave apostles and evangelists like St. Matthew, prophets like Ezekiel, and still gives pastors and teachers (Eph. 4:8, 11). All are “for the common good … empowered by one and the same Spirit” (1 Cor. 12:7, 11). They speak Christ’s “truth in love” to wind- and wave-tossed children so that the saints may be equipped, served and built up as the Body of Christ (Eph. 4:12–15). Christ is not only the head of this body, He is her Good Physician (Matt. 9:9–13). He has come not for the well but for the sick, not for “the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:13) — even notorious tax collectors like Matthew. Christ’s team of spiritual physicians must serve faithfully. Their instrument is “thus says the Lord God,” to be spoken “whether they hear or refuse to hear” (Ezek. 3:11). To those stubborn, rebellious patients who believe they need no physician, the word “of lamentation and mourning and woe” must be fearlessly spoken: God’s Law calls to repentance (Ezek. 2:10). To those who recognize their trouble and sickness, the salve of the Gospel is to be applied. So Christ works to save us, as Matthew’s Gospel records.\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
September 22, 2024
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Proverbs 25:6–14\rPsalm: Psalm 2; antiphon: v. 11\rEpistle: Ephesians 4:1–6\rGospel: Luke 14:1–11\rIntroit: Psalm 119:1–2, 5–6; antiphon: vv. 137, 124\rGradual: Psalm 33:12, 6\rVerse: Psalm 116:1\r\rWhoever Humbles Himself Will Be Exalted\r \r“Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence” (Prov. 25:6–14). Rather, take the lowest position at the table. Humble yourself before Him. For your place is not for you to take but for Him to give. Conduct yourself with all lowliness and gentleness, bearing with one another in love (Eph. 4:1–6), that the King may give you glory in the presence of those at the table with you. “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:1–11). Is this not the way of Christ? He is the one who took the lowest place, who humbled Himself even to the point of death for us. He is now exalted to the highest place at the right hand of the Father that penitent believers may be exalted together with Him in the resurrection. To the humble at His Supper He says, “Friend, move up higher,” giving you His very body and blood for your forgiveness that you may ascend to take part in the great wedding feast which has no end.\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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September 22, 2024 10:45 am - 11:45 am
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Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
September 29, 2024
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Deuteronomy 10:12–21\rPsalm: Psalm 34:8–22; antiphon: v. 19\rEpistle: 1 Corinthians 1:1–9\rEpistle: 1 Corinthians 1:4–9\rGospel: Matthew 22:34–46\rIntroit: Psalm 122:1, 6, 8–9; antiphon: Liturgical Text\rGradual: Psalm 122:1, 7\rVerse: Psalm 117:1\r\rIn Life and Death, Christ Fulfills the Law of God\r \rThe Pharisees ask a Law question. Jesus asks a Gospel question. The Pharisees seek to test Jesus in His own words. Jesus seeks to “test” them in the saving reality of who He is as the Messiah (Matt. 22:34–46). The Law requires you to “fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” and to “love the sojouner” (Deut. 10:12–21). Failure to keep the Law perfectly brings judgment. On the other hand, the Gospel brings the grace of God given by Jesus Christ, that you may be blameless in the day of His return (1 Cor. 1:1–9). Jesus is David’s Son yet David’s Lord, true God and true man. He is Love incarnate who fulfilled all the demands of God’s Law on our behalf, that we might be saved from the Law’s condemnation and sanctified in the Gospel’s forgiveness. Thereby we see that “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Cor. 1:9).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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[F] St. Michael and All Angels
[F] St. Michael and All Angels
September 29, 2024
Color: White\r\rOld Testament: Daniel 10:10–14; 12:1–3\rPsalm: Psalm 91; antiphon: v. 11\rEpistle: Revelation 12:7–12\rGospel: Matthew 18:1–11\rGospel: Luke 10:17–20\rIntroit: Psalm 103:20–22; antiphon: v. 1\rGradual: Psalm 91:11; 103:1\rVerse: Revelation 12:11\r\rOur Father in Heaven Protects His Children by Giving His Holy Angels Charge Over Them\r \rWe live in “a time of trouble” (Dan. 12:1), in the midst of great tribulation. Satan and his wicked angels have been thrown out of heaven and have come down to earth “in great wrath,” with woeful “temptations to sin” and with constant accusations (Rev. 12:8–12; Matt. 18:7). Even so, we are encouraged by the presence and protection of St. Michael and the holy angels, whom God sends to help us in the strife (Dan. 10:11–13). By “the authority of his Christ,” His holy angels guard and keep us in body and soul. These heavenly servants of God preserve His human messengers on earth, the ministers of “the blood of the Lamb,” against all the power of the enemy, for by “the word of their testimony,” the Church is saved and the devil is defeated (Rev. 12:10–11; Luke 10:18–19). By their preaching and Baptism of repentance, the old Adam and the old evil foe are “drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matt. 18:6). As God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, so are His people delivered and raised from the dust of the earth through the forgiveness of their sins (Dan. 12:1–3).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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September 29, 2024 10:45 am - 11:45 am
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