Weekly Videos for 12/26/21

Homily Only

Full Recording for Resurrection Church

The Reading

The Gospel:

John 1:1-18

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

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Lessons and Carols

Special Music by Jim Butler

Thanks to Jim Butler for his lovely playing last Sunday.

Special thanks to Robin and Eric Peterson, Charles Perry, and my brother Stephen Jenkins for permission to use recordings of their compositions, some of which were specifically composed for this service.

There will be no Christmas Day homily this year. The next homily and full Resurrection Church recordings will be the First Sunday after Christmas (two days hence).

This service is a repeat of the 2020 recording with minor edits.

Weekly Videos for 12/19/21

Homily and Levertov Poem Only

Levertov Poem Only

Full Recording for Resurrection Church

The Reading

The Gospel:

Luke 1:39-55

In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.”

And Mary said,

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