HappySixth Sunday after Trinity!
The AOC Sunday Report can be downloaded RIGHT HERE!
We have really good sermons today from Bishops Jerry and Roy, as well as Rev Jack. Rev Bryan is still down with his heart bypass operation, but seemingly doing well. Please keep him in your prayers. Rev Jack brings the Propers together today. His sermon is below the propers and can be viewed on video HERE -> https://youtu.be/rZPM_c2kYFE
In the Collect, we acknowledge God will give those who love Him more good than they can imagine, let alone ask for. But, first you have to love Him. How do we accomplish this? We do it by asking the Holy Ghost to enter in to our hearts so we might truly love Him. In today’s Epistle, Paul says as Jesus Christ died and rose again, so too should we die to our sins and rise again in a better state. He uses this metaphor to describe both our life here on earth as previously we had been living in our corrupt natural state and through the renewal of the mind through the Holy Ghost, we are transformed into something more pure than we had been. The lesson of the Gospel is that we must put aside our often foolish and angry thoughts and not act upon them, but rather have Christly thoughts and act upon those. We can’t advance God’s cause here on Earth if we are angry all the time. Having trouble visualizing that? Read or listen to Rev Jack’s sermon.
There are always a lot of people who need your prayers, today is no exception. Please start with Tricia, Lauralee, Shamu, Laurie and work out from there.
As we come up on a new week, it comes on me to remind myself to be thankful IN all things, not necessarily FOR all things.
Godspeed,
Hap
Church of the Faithful Centurion
Descanso, California
United States of America
