Newsletter Sept. 6, 2022

Learn first of all to be at peace with the spiritual situation which has been given you, and to make the most of it. If your situation is spiritually barren, do not let this discourage you, but work all the harder at what you yourself can do for your spiritual life. It is already something very important to have access to the Sacraments and regular church services. Beyond this you should have regular morning and evening prayers with your family, and spiritual reading—all according to your strength and the possibilities afforded by your circumstances.
– Fr. Seraphim Rose

Hopefully this is the one last one for this summer: this coming Saturday Sept. 10. (9:00 AM)

James Lindsay – Birthday: 09-14

May God grant you many years!

Epistle: ST. PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS 6:11-18

Brethren, see with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that would compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh. But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God. Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

Gospel: JOHN 3:13-17

The Lord said, “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

The Lights of an Approaching Rescue
Fr. Lawrence Farley

All of God’s long and painful striving with His covenant people had as its one and supreme goal the Incarnation, made possible through the free and courageous assent of a pious Jewish teen-ager from Nazareth, a young woman who offered her heart, her life, and her flesh to God, saying, “Behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.” It was through that assent, by the Holy Spirit, that the timeless One entered time, and the One who filled heaven and earth became a foetus in a tiny human womb. Through Him our long captivity would be ended.

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