Worship this Sunday

Event Information:

• Sun

  27

  Dec

  2020

  First Sunday of Christmas

  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

  Isaiah 61:10—62:3 Clothed in garments of salvation

  Galatians 4:4-7 Children and heirs of God

  Luke 2:22-40 The presentation of the child

  Psalmody: Psalm 148 The splendor of the LORD is over earth and heaven

  Hymn of the Day: Hymn 417, In His Temple Now Behold Him, REGENT SQUARE

  This Sunday we hear Luke’s story of the ritual at which the infant Jesus is presented in the temple and his mother Mary is “purified” after childbirth. Yet receiving them in the temple are Simeon and Anna, two old people who speak about the redemption that will come through Jesus’ death. When we celebrate Jesus’ birth, we remember his death.