Happy Fifth Sunday in Lent, commonly called Passion Sunday! Want to find out why and what that means? Download the AOC Sunday Report RIGHT HERE and the first part will tell you!
We have excellent sermon today from Bishops Jerry and Roy, as well as Rev Jack. Each is very very good and each is just quite a bit different. I am confident you will enjoy them. Rev Jack brings the Propers together today. His sermon can be viewed on video HERE -> https://youtu.be/eyRSxeR-yhc
Today’s Collect acknowledges to God we acknowledge without God’s great goodness and divine intervention, we cannot be preserved in either body or soul. In the Epistle, Paul discusses the failure of the sacrifices of the old covenant and the difference with the new. The Gospel is another example of the Jews (in this case Pharisees) being very conversant in The Law with absolutely no grasp of its meaning. In the Gospel, Jesus explained to the Pharisees before Abraham had even been conceived, He was. In fact, Jesus was the one who created this Earth, so He has been around since before the beginning of the planet. The Pharisees could or would not grasp in their heads Jesus was who He claimed to be, the Son of God. They chose to try to destroy His ministry rather than follow Him. He was interfering with their comfortable way of living and deceiving the Jewish people. He was a threat to their system. They would not understand His Message, so they opted to try to destroy Him instead. Great stuff and it all comes together, listen or read to understand how.
There are always a lot of people who need your prayer, today is not the exception. Please start with Tricia, Marty, Shamu, Laurie and work out from there.
There is a lot going on this week, some of it good some of it bad. The world is awful hard to decode, and understand if you don't have some help from God. If you need help, and we all do, look to Him for help in the form of the Third God Guy the Holy Ghost.
Have an EPIC week.
Godspeed,
Church of the Faithful Centurion
Descanso, California
United States of America
