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frcrosthwait
Feb 25, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for the Last Sunday of Epiphany: Transfiguration
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Now about eight days after these sayings [Jesus] took with him Peter and John and James and went up...
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frcrosthwait
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for World Mission Sunday
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Tell it out among the nations, “The Lord is King; * it is he who has made the world so firm that it...
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frcrosthwait
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for The Sixth Sunday of Epiphany
Reflection on the Word in our Worship "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now,...
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frcrosthwait
Feb 2, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for The Fifth Sunday of Epiphany
Reflection on the Word in our Worship For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins...
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frcrosthwait
Jan 21, 20223 min read
Getting Ready for The Third Sunday of Epiphany
Reflection on the Word in our Worship [Jesus] unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is...
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frcrosthwait
Jan 8, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for The First Sunday of Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 22, 20213 min read
Getting Ready for Christmas
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Our Advent preparation opens into 12 Days of celebration and reflection on the Holy Nativity. These...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 16, 20212 min read
Getting Ready for Advent 4
Introduction to the Word for Worship And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 16, 20211 min read
The "Great O" Antiphons
December 16: O Sapientia O Wisdom, that comes out of the mouth of the Most High, that reaches from one end to the other, and mightily and...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 9, 20212 min read
Getting Ready for Advent 3
Introduction to the Word for Worship Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 2, 20214 min read
Collect (pronunced COLLect) for Advent 1
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 2, 20212 min read
Advent is Coming (pt 3)
Prepare. Celebrate. Reflect. That’s the basic pattern for Advent, Christmas Day, and the Christmas Season. I introduced this pattern in...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 1, 20212 min read
Getting Ready for Advent 2
Introduction to the Word for Worship The word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 23, 20212 min read
Getting Ready for Advent 2021
Introduction to the Word for Worship Jesus said: “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 20, 20213 min read
Advent is Coming (pt 2)
Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. I'm a fan. So I'm of the option that, at least in this case, the whole is greater than the parts. I say this...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 17, 20212 min read
Christ the King: the last Sunday before Advent | 11/21/2021
Introduction to the Word for Worship Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 11, 20212 min read
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity | 11/14/2021
Introduction to the Word for Worship For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Advent is Coming (pt 1)
The first time I saw an Advent wreath, I wasn’t interested. At the time I was a Gen-X nineteen-year-old. Everything was dumb, except my...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 3, 20212 min read
All Saints' Sunday | 11/07/2021
Introduction to the Word for Worship Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him....
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frcrosthwait
Oct 27, 20212 min read
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity | 10/31/2021
Introduction to the Word for Worship And the scribe said to [Jesus], “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and...
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