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,

Weekly Videos for 12/12/21

Homily Only

Full Recording for Resurrection Church

The Reading

The Gospel:

Luke 3:7-18

John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”