Advent: The Season

Scripture And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes...

Christmas: Commemoration

Scripture And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known....

Epiphany: Commemoration

Scripture In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise me from the East came to Jerusalem asking “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage. (Matthew...

Season of Lent: Commemoration

Scripture Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. (Joel 2:13) Commemoration Lent is a very important season. It is a time for reflection upon the condition of our spiritual lives. The first step is...

Season of Easter: Commemoration

Scripture Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (1 Peter 1:3) Commemoration The message of Easter calls us to lives of joy and...

Summer Devotion

Scripture Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastics 4:6) Summer has arrived, and the thoughts of many turn to vacations. While the choice of vacations is quite board, one observation that is commonly heard...