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

Evening Prayer/Bible Study, 7 pm

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: The Tenth Sunday after Trinity

From the Gospel Lesson: St. Luke 19:41- 47a

In this passage Jesus is coming down from the Mount of Olives into the great city of Jerusalem. As he descends he sees the great city in the distance. Knowing that the hearts of the people (though they were in great joyous celebration at the time) were far from him and any knowledge of his person and work. He weeps over their lost condition. He then cries, prophesying of the destruction of Jerusalem pronouncing God’s immanent judgment that would come in 70 AD. Having entered the temple, he sees the money changers and those who had made His house of prayer into a market. Calling it a den of thieves, he casts them out and having done so, he begins to teach there every day.

What amazing love and compassion! What zeal for the people and temple of the most High God! Oh that we, Christ’s children would receive such grace that we too would have such love and desire for God, His house, and His people.

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+