Tag: All Saint’s Day
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Sundays After Pentecost, All Saints Day,Yr B 2021: Old Testament and Epistle Passages – Thinking about what is to come & what is beyond
“But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction,And their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace.For though in the sight…
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Season After Pentecost: All the Passages on All Saints Day 2016
This will be a long posting, so hold on beloved reader. The first passage is from Ephesians, the author, of course, being Paul. The passage for today picks up a little ways into the first chapter of Ephesians, where Paul is past the opening portion and starting into his exhortation and teaching. “In Christ we…
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Season After Pentecost: The Gospel Passage – A day to re-direct our thinking
“Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. (Luke 20: 27-28) This week there is an…
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Season After Pentecost – Waking up to the Lord (The Psalm Passage)
“God claims Earth and everything in it, God claims World and all who live on it. He built it on Ocean foundations, laid it out on River girders. Who can climb Mount God? Who can scale the holy north-face? Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; Men who won’t cheat, women who won’t seduce. God is…
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Season After Pentecost – All Saints Day – here & now, and in the time to come (The Old Testament Passage)
“But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, And their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. For though…
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Season After Pentecost – That which has passed away, and that which will come (The Epistles Passage)
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a…