First Sunday after Epiphany 2009
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem.”
Reflections: In our rapt gazing into the light of Epiphany, into the manifold revealing of the true Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we look along our natural lines of sight which go to our horizon in our time and world. We look for how Our Lord chooses to reveal Himself to us on our scale. In the Epiphany Epistle to the Ephesians, St. Paul gives us a glimpse of the Cosmic and Unseen world consequences of that Epiphany. The church … that’s us … is to make known unto the principalities and powers in the heavenly places the manifold wisdom of God. Hardly just a local planet earth event! All that we can imagine exists, seen and unseen, the entire universe and beyond, is to be taught by the Body of Christ … again, that’s us … about the manifold wisdom and purposes of God Almighty. How’s that as a job description? That’s our calling. That’s what the Holy Spirit equips us to do as the Body of Christ. Try stretching yourselves around that revelation. God does not intend us for lesser things. Wow and amen.
A Bible memory verse: Ephesians iii, “now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God”
Wednesday: Octave Day of the Epiphany, Evening Prayer 5:45, Low Mass 6pm, and Bible study 6:45 on the Gospel of St. John (picking up at John 3:24).
Next Sunday January 17th, Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.