Sunday Services

Sunday School - 9:30 am

Holy Communion - 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays, 10:30 am

Morning Prayer - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 10:30 am

Thursday Services

No Evening Prayer

Thursday January 1st

Reaching out to the least, the lonely, and the lost

Holy Communion Service at Friendship South

2nd and 4th Sundays, 2:30 pm

Thoughts from the Lectionary for the First Sunday after the Epiphany

From the Gospel Lesson: St. Luke 2:41-52

Here we see a curious event from the life of Jesus. When He was 12 years old He and His parents went down to the feast in Jerusalem. After the feast days were done the family began to return home but Jesus remained in Jerusalem. Specifically, he was mainly at the Temple with the learned theologians of His day listening to and asking questions of them. We’re not told how he came to be left behind but, most likely having traveled in a large caravan of people it would have been easy for his parents to assume he was with friends or others in the large group. His parents return to Jerusalem and find the Child Jesus in the temple where he was amazing the people there with his knowledge and answers to their questions. Being found by His parents he returns with them to their home where he remains obedient to His parents as He grows into adulthood.

Christ is God and as such He is without sin. Even at this tender age mentioned in the passage he was fulfilling the Law by being subject and obedient to His parents. How mystifying this is. The Creator of the universe, being born into the very world He created, to live as one of us. He came to us. He fulfilled all that we could not in our place. He is Immanuel indeed! Let us cast our cares upon Him.

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+