Epiphany IV

          “Just then there was within their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, ‘What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God’. But Jesus rebuked him, saying, ‘Be silent, and come out of him!’.” 

Epiphany III

“The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time….So Jonah went out and said to Nineveh….which was an exceedingly large city…. Jonah cried out, ‘forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh proclaimed a fast and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. When God saw what they did….

Epiphany II

“Grant that Your people, Illumined by Your Word and sacraments…”

These words from this week’s Collect express the Episcopal Church’s understanding of the significant influences that illumine our understanding and acceptance of Jesus. The first, the Word of God, transmitted to us primarily and historically through Holy Scripture. The second significant influence is that of the sacraments…