Sermons on Luke 2:22-40

Sermons on Luke 2:22-40

The Presentation

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. As has become our pattern in recent years, we celebrate the feasts and festivals of the church year when they fall on Sundays. In spite of the much-appreciated extra work for our beloved Altar Guild in changing the paraments a few more times, it is right and…

The Child, The Gift

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. There are some great things about having a church year, a liturgy, a lectionary of readings, Collects, and other Propers of the day. That is, in having those things that—with an ever-changing dynamic of variety—put a predictable framework around our gathering in…

Purified by the Firstborn

Grace, mercy, and peace to you on this First Sunday after Christmas, from God our Father, and from our incarnate Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: It’s only been a few days from our celebration of the nativity of Jesus. In our Gospel reading for this morning, however, we are fast-forwarding some six weeks from that miraculous birth.…