Tag: First Sunday After Christmas
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First Sunday After Christmas Day, Year B 2023: – Epistle Passage: Post-Christmas Blessings & Peace
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.” (Galatians 4:4 – 5) One of the questions that has circled and cycled around my brain as…
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First Sunday After Christmas Day, Year B 2023: – Old Testament Passage: Post-Christmas Blessings
It is a long stretch I know, beloved reader, to come out of the Advent & Christmas season to be so abruptly into the First Sunday After Christmas. A larger stretch is for me, as the writer, to shift gears and think about post-Christmas before Christmas has arrived! Ah!!! The perils of writing a week…
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First Sunday After Christmas, Yr A, 2022 – Gospel Passage: Not all holly jolly
[Sunday January 1st is an auspice day this Lectionary year. It is, of course, the first day of the new year. It is the first Sunday after Christmas, and it is the Holy Name of Jesus day. There are a potential 12 scripture passages that could be used amongst the four days that I write…
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First Sunday After Christmas, while still in the week of Christmas, Yr C 2021: Psalm Passages – Welcoming Christmas, and that time that comes afterward; Preacher & Seeker lead the way
For Christmas Seeker: “O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.” It is Christmas Day, Preacher! Joyous Christmas to you!! Preacher: “For…
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First Sunday After Christmas, while still in the week of Christmas, Yr C 2021: Gospel Passages – Anticipating what we know, but blurring when we came to know about it
For Christmas “In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered.” (Luke 2:1 – 3) And it begins again; the same story from the…
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First Sunday After Christmas, while still in the week of Christmas, Yr C 2021: Epistle Passages – Staying in the moment while anticipating the Promised One
For Christmas “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus…
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First Sunday After Christmas – while still in the week of Christmas,Yr C 2021: Old Testament Passage – Staying in the moment while looking ahead
Alright, this is awkward. But then, it usually is around this year. We have not Christmas-ed yet, but the RCL is racing ahead to the Sunday AFTER Christmas and pulling us along like a reindeer sleigh that still has gifts in it! Usually the RCL gives us (or at least me!) a little time to…
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The First Sunday After Christmas, Yr B, 2020: A Mix of Every Passage – Carrying forward past Christmas
Once again, beloved reader, I focused on the big event this week and left until the last minute what the Sunday in the lectionary series had to say. Perhaps if Christmas had not nestled itself down at the end of the week, I might have been more attuned to the Sunday after Christmas. But here…
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Week of – First Sunday After Christmas / New Year’s Day / Holy Name of Jesus Day; A True Day of Rest
“I will recount the gracious deeds of the LORD, the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, because of all that the LORD has done for us, and the great favor to the house of Israel that he has shown them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love. For he said, “Surely…
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Week of – First Sunday After Christmas / New Year’s Day / Holy Name of Jesus Day; Decisions, decisions, decisions!
There seems to be a wide variety of celebratory days for the week following Christmas. I guess having Christmas on a weekend, and a Sunday no less, tends to bunch up the occasions. So I am left with the task of which to choose. Should it be a “normal” Sunday? That would mean we look…
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