Event Information:
- Sun20Dec2020
Fourth Sunday of Advent
We invite you to worship with us during this pandemic either in-person or online.
Holy Eucharist is offered in the Trinity Nave at 10:00 a.m. every Sunday. All attendees wear face-masks and follow posted physical distancing guidelines. Up to six singers with masks sing from the organ gallery during the liturgy. The assembly does not sing. We commune with the bread only, received directly from the Presiding Minister in mask and gloves. This worship service is also available to watch and hear online via our Vimeo channel or through our congregational website.
In light of the ongoing risk posed by the coronavirus we invite you to make a responsible and healthy decision regarding your participation in our worship. Lutherans teach and confess that Christ is present in the assembly gathered around the proclaimed Word of God, in the water and the Word of Holy Baptism, and in the shared meal of bread and wine at Holy Communion.
BIBLE READINGS, PSALM & SONG, & THEMES
Commemoration of Katharina von Bora Luther, renewer of the church, 1552
2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 God’s promise to David
Romans 16:25-27 The mystery revealed in Jesus Christ
Luke 1:26-38 The angel appears to Mary
Psalmody: Luke 1:46b-55 You, Lord, have lifted up the lowly
Hymn of the Day: Hymn 258, Unexpected and Mysterious, ST HELENA
This Sunday, we light all four candles of the Advent wreath, and we read the story from Luke about the angel Gabriel coming to Mary. Christians believe that in baptism we too are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit so that Christ will dwell in us. Despite what the shopping malls suggest to us, Christmas is not yet here: we still anticipate what Romans calls “the revelation of the mystery.”