Today in the Spirit: Trinity Sunday C

Posted on June 8, 2025
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Trinity Sunday C, in particular, might also be called โ€œHoly Trinity Sundayโ€ or โ€œTrinity Worship Sunday.โ€ More than in Years A and B, the readings in this cycle take us beyond just references to the three persons or the trinity or trinitarian formulas to adoration of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The…

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Today in the Spirit: Pentecost Sunday C (Whitsunday)

Posted on June 1, 2025
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โ€œPentecost Sunday already!?โ€ While this might well be our reaction to the arrival of this feast day on the church calendar every year, we can only imagine how the disciples felt who were ordered by Jesus to go to Jerusalem and wait until you are clothed with power from on highย  (Luke 24:49). As they…

Today in the Spirit: Easter 7C (The Sunday After Ascension)

Posted on May 25, 2025
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Ascension Day will have passed, and because it is always celebrated on a Thursday, too few of us will have taken notice. For that reason, the BCP 2019 has restored the practice of titling this Sunday the โ€œSunday After Ascension Day,โ€ suggesting, of course, that some attention will be given to the ascension of Christ…

Today in the Spirit: Easter 6C (Rogation Sunday)

Posted on May 18, 2025
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Easter 6 in the BCP 2019 carries the specific title โ€œRogation Sunday.โ€ The term โ€œRogationโ€ generally refers to a solemn Sunday. In the context of our liturgical celebration, it is connected with devotions associated with our Lordโ€™s final days on earth (before his ascension). Because of its proximity to Pentecost, originally a harvest festival, Rogation…

Today in the Spirit: Easter 5C

Posted on May 11, 2025
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At Easter 5, the church begins to highlight some of the teachings of Jesus in the upper room discourse in John. The assigned Gospel reading out ofย  John 13:31-35 in Year C begins that discourse after Judas departs the scene. Directing his attention to the eleven, our Lord says, โ€œNow is the Son of Man…

Today in the Spirit: Easter 4C (Good Shepherd)

Posted on May 4, 2025
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Though the Fourth Sunday of Easter contains the same readings in most contemporary three-year lectionaries, only in the BCP 2019 do we find the title โ€œGood Shepherdโ€ for the week. The Gospel readings across the three-year schedule cover all of John 10 where we find the explicit references to Jesus as the โ€œgood shepherdโ€. In…

Today in the Spirit: Easter 3C

Posted on April 27, 2025
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In the lessons for Easter 3C, the church leads us in worship to the third resurrection appearance of Jesus to his disciples, as recorded in the Gospel of John. In the assigned text, in John 21:1-14, our Lord reveals himself to a group of seven disciples while they are fishing on โ€œthe Sea of Tiberiasโ€…

Today in the Spirit: Easter 2C

Posted on April 20, 2025
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The church utilizes the two Sundays following Easter Day to center its worship around the resurrection appearances of Jesus recorded in Luke and John. (The one account of an appearance to his disciples in Matthew 28:16-20, the Great Commission, is appointed on Trinity Sunday A, and the one in Mark 16:9-20 is an alternative Gospel…

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Easter Vigil: A Rookie Anglican Guide

Posted on April 17, 2025
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There may be no more powerful portrayal of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Christian liturgy than that which happens in the darkness of night before Easter morning. In the Easter Vigil, a service that begins in total darkness, light is carried into the midst of the people and spreads, culminating in the jubilant proclamation…

Today in the Spirit: Easter Sunday C

Posted on April 13, 2025
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โ€œAlleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!โ€ At no time is the thrill of making this acclamation greater than on Easter Day. Enter then, all of you, into the joy of your Master. First and last, receive alike your reward. Rich and poor, dance together. You who have fasted and you who…