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Posted on: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:26 PM
Author: Rev. Rick Stuckwisch
Subject: Every Given Sunday
Every Sunday is Advent and Christmas and Epiphany Every Sunday is Palm Sunday and Good Friday and Easter Every Sunday is Pentecost and All Saints' Day Every Sunday is penitential and festive Every Sunday is the beginning and the consummation of the Church's life in Christ For on every given Sunday the Lord comes to us with His Word and Spirit He sends His messenger before His face to prepare His way, preaching a Baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins He comes to us in His Body of flesh and blood, conceived and born of the Blessed Virgin Mary, crucified under Pontius Pilate, dead and buried, risen from the dead, ascended into heaven, seated at the Right Hand of the Father, given and poured out for us at His Table He manifests the grace and glory of the one true God in that human flesh and blood of His, transfigured by His Cross, by which He also makes us partakers of His own divine nature He enters the wilderness with us, contends with Satan as our own dread Champion, crucifies the old Adam in us by contrition and repentance, and raises us from the dust of death to newness of life in Him through His free and full forgiveness of our sins He comes in the Name of the Lord, upon the colt and donkey of chalice and paten, to proclaim His death among us, to feed us with His paschal Flesh, to cover us and seal us with His Blood of the New Testament, and to bring us by His Exodus through death and the grave into His Resurrection and His Life everlasting, into the very Holy of Holies of the Father's bosom He pours out His Holy Spirit generously upon us, and binds us to Himself in love, as members of His Body, as members of one Holy Communion in Him, our Husband and our Head Every given Sunday Every week of every Season Every Year of Our Lord, until He comes in power and great glory to judge us righteous by His Cross and Resurrection and He brings us into the biggest Sunday of all: the eternal Eighth Day of His Kingdom |
