Brothers and Sisters,
The collect appointed for this coming Sunday is both simple and profound:
Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ’s glory, that he may be known, worshiped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
If the theme of Epiphany is the revelation of Christ to the nations, we see a powerful reminder of how that happens in this prayer. I’m especially struck, in this collect, by the power of the Scriptures to illumine God’s people and to reveal the glory of Jesus, as I’m preparing for the launch of our adult Bible study on January 25.
We’ll be planning to meet in our library area on Sunday mornings at 10:15. It’ll be a great opportunity for us to open the Scriptures together as a church family. As this coming week’s collect reminds us, there is great power in the Scriptures. As we read the Scriptures together, the light of Christ will be revealed to us, and we will be transformed for his service, that Jesus may be increasingly known, worshiped, and obeyed, both in our lives and through our witness.
I look forward to seeing you there.
In Christ,
Fr. Caleb