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 for the Third Sunday after Trinity

From the Gospel Lesson: St. Luke 15:1-10

Vs. 10 "Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."

In this passage we see the religious leaders of His day deriding Jesus for receiving and eating with sinful members of society. They considered themselves above these “unsavory folks” and felt that Christ should treat sinners the same way that they did with scorn and disdain. Christ responds to their grumbling by telling two stories. The story of the Shepherd that leaves the 99 to find the lost sheep and the story of the woman who searches for and finds her lost coin. He illustrates in these tales the unsearchable amount of love God has for His children. Even the Holy Angels rejoice when a lost soul finds its home in Christ.

The shepherd is of course the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, who searches for his lost sheep. The woman is the church searching for the lost treasure, the lost coin that bear the image of their maker. As the church we ought to be searching for the lost coins, just as Christ searches for the lost sheep.

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+