We’re still enjoying the glow of Christmastide when Epiphany comes, bright, radiant, and full of revelation. The season begins with the Wise Men, led by a star, arriving to worship the child King, and ends with the blinding glory of the Transfiguration. It’s a season of manifestations, of seeing Jesus clearly for who he truly…
Today in the Spirit: Last Sunday of Epiphany A (Transfiguration)
On the Last Sunday of Epiphany every year, we contemplate in our worship the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ. In this season of celebrating the Father God’s power to reveal the glory of the Son in the world, the various accounts of the Transfiguration in the Gospels form a bookend for the worshiper, with the accounts…
Today in the Spirit: Epiphany 5A
At the end of the Beatitudes we heard last Sunday, Jesus makes a dramatic shift from the third person “Blessed are those” to the second person “Blessed are you,” and there he remains throughout the remainder of the Sermon on the Mount. At Epiphany 5A, we hear in the assigned Gospel reading Matthew 5:13-20 the…
Living Inside Psalm 51: A Conversation with David Roseberry
In a sense, Psalm 51 is emblematic of the Old Testament. It struggles with sin and the distance it creates from God—a distance King David is very nervous about personally experiencing—but it doesn’t offer a path to reunion and redemption except through the offering described at the end of the Psalm.
Today in the Spirit: Epiphany 4A
In Year A, walking with Jesus in our worship, with the Gospel of Matthew as our guide, the church will focus on the biblical illumination of Jesus as divine teacher. For five consecutive weeks, we will be immersed in the Sermon on the Mount, the first and largest of Jesus’ five teaching discourses in Matthew….
Today in the Spirit: Epiphany 3A
At Epiphany 3, out of the church’s selection of Sunday Gospel readings, we contemplate in worship the glory of Jesus Christ revealed in the earliest events of his ministry in Galilee (northern Palestine). In Year A, the assigned Gospel reading this week is from Matthew 4:12-22. In his narration of Jesus’ move north, Matthew (as…
Today in the Spirit: Epiphany 2A
Liturgical churches most often consider the period after the Feast of our Lord’s Baptism and the day before Ash Wednesday to be “Ordinary Time” in the season of Epiphany. The term “ordinary” refers not to space for the mundane but to a period ordered by numbers in the BCP and a series of Gospel readings…
Today in the Spirit: Epiphany 1A
Prepositions are important in the Book of Common Prayer. One change in the BCP 2019 that can easily go unnoticed is the designation Sundays “of Epiphany” in the new book compared with Sundays “after Epiphany” or “after the Epiphany” in earlier versions. What does the new title communicate? One response is that the Epiphany (the…
Daily Office Booklet 2026: January–April
Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. Beginning to pray the Daily Office is a great way to start the New Year. This edition will guide you through Morning and Evening Prayer, using the lectionary readings from January through April 2026. As always, we’ve rendered PDFs for you to print in both booklet and…
Today in the Spirit: Christmas 2A
We continue to celebrate the Christmas season on the Second Sunday of Christmas. For Christmas 2, the Church gives two options for the assigned Gospel readings in all three lectionary years. These, together with the various options for Gospel readings on Christmas Day, provide coverage of all the infancy and childhood narratives of our Lord’s…
