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 Second Sunday after Trinity

From the Gospel Lesson: St. Luke 14:16 - 24

In this passage of Scripture Jesus tells a story of a man who plans to host a great banquet. He sends out the preliminary invites to many of his neighbors who likely said initially that they would attend. However, when the day of the party arrives most of those invited begin sending quite transparently dishonest excuses as to why they cannot attend. Now angered the host tells his servant to instead invite the poor, lame, blind and otherwise “unsavory” people to the banquet. Obediently the servant does so and still there was room for more people and the master of the house tells his servant to make sure the banquet hall was full so that none of those originally invited would be able to come to dinner.

Christ came to His own and the elites of His people rejected Him. They did not see the Host of Heaven even though He was standing right in front of them. But those who knew their need of Christ heard His call to be saved. Since then many of the “poor”, “lame”, and “blind” have accepted the invitation to come and dine at the Saviour’s table. Hear the call dear ones! Come to the banquet of the Lord!

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+