Sermon for Christmas Day, December 25, 2023

'When we look at our manger scenes, we see Mary and Joseph and the baby. But if we look with the eyes of John’s vision, if we look as the hymnwriter does, we see God. The Word became flesh.'

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The Holy Communion on Christmas Day, 10:30 a.m.

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The order of service may be found here.

Sermon for Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2023

 'Of course, there is something new and different

about this Christmas Eve –

and every Christmas Eve, for that matter.

That new and different thing is you – and it is me.

 

We never come to church on Christmas Eve

exactly the same as we were last year.

The angel’s message is consistent year after year,

It is the shepherds in the field who are not the same.'

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The Holy Communion on Christmas Eve, 7:30 p.m.

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The order of service may be found here.

O Come, All Ye Faithful!

Sunday, Dec. 24:

Service for Christmas Eve, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 25:

Service for Christmas Day, 10:30 a.m.

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 24, 2023

 'Some of us, I hope most of us, will ‘count our blessings’ at Christmas. Might I suggest that along with the usual thanksgivings for food and shelter, for health and for family and for plenty, you might count the blessing of vocation, of your ‘callings’ in life? God has made you part of his story of salvation by calling you into relationship with others. '

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The Holy Communion on the Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 24, 10:30 a.m.

The livestream may be found here.

The order of service may be found here.

The Holy Communion on the Third Sunday of Advent: December 17, 2023, 10:30 a.m.

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The order of service may be found here.

Evening Prayer, December 13, 2023, 7 pm: St Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse

 The livestream may be found here.

The order of worship may be found here.

Join us for Christmas Services!

O Come, All Ye Faithful!

Sunday, Dec. 24:

Service for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 

10:30 a.m.

Service for Christmas Eve, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 25:

Service for Christmas Day, 10:30 a.m.

Sermon, Second Sunday of Advent

'The word ‘repentance’ which we use so often simply means this, ‘to turn,’ or ‘to turn around.’ We turn away from that which is passing away towards that which is coming into being. This is what it means to repent: we turn from evil and towards God, from sin towards holiness, from death towards life. Martin Luther reminds us that this is to be the Spirit’s work in us every day.'  

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The Holy Communion on the Second Sunday of Advent: December 10, 2023, 10:30 a.m.

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Evening Prayer for St Nicholas Day, 7 p.m.

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The order of worship may be found here.

NALC Advent Devotion, December 5

Devotion by The Rev. Dcn. Andrew Ames Fuller

The First Monday of Advent, Dec. 4

Devotion by NALC General Secretary The Rev. Amy Little

Sermon for the First Sunday of Advent, December 3, 2023

'The Advent of our Lord for which we are to prepare is his coming into the midst of our lives, as we remember that he has come in the Christ-child and will come as judge of the living and the dead.'

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The Holy Communion on the First Sunday of Advent, 10:30 a.m.

 

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Academy Concerts Presents! December 8, 7:30 pm