Sermons from 2023
Christmas Eve 7:00
GOSPEL READING Luke 2:1-20 The Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you, O Lord.In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea,…
Christmas Eve 4:00
GOSPEL READING Luke 2:1-20 The Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you, O Lord. In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea,…
Fourth Sunday of Advent
GOSPEL READING Luke 1:26-38 The Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you, O Lord.In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was much…
Third Sunday of Advent
READING Luke 1:46b-55 A reading from Luke [Mary Said:] My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for you, Lord, have looked with favor on your lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: you, the Almighty, have done great things for me and holy is your name. You have mercy on those who fear you, from…
Second Sunday of Advent
Mark 1:1-8 The Holy Gospel according to Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight, “John the…
First Sunday of Advent
Mark 13:24-37 The Holy Gospel according to Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said:] “In those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory.…
Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Matthew 25:1-13 The holy gospel according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said to the disciples:] “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten brides-maids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their…
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Matthew 25:14-30 The Holy Gospel according to Matthew.Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said to the disciples:] “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The one who had received the five talents went…
Christ the King Sunday
Matthew 25:31-46 The holy gospel according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said to the disciples:] “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,…
Seventeenth sunday after Pentecost
GOSPEL READING Matthew 20:1-16The Holy Gospel according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord.[Jesus said to the disciples:] “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others…