St. Paul Lutheran Church | Lutheran Church Escondido

The Closing Service of St Paul Lutheran Church

Septuagesima: First Sunday in Pre-Lent

The Last Sunday After the Epiphany (The Transfiguration of Our Lord)

The Second Sunday After Epiphany

First Sunday After the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord

The Third Sunday in Advent (Divine Service)

The Third Sunday in Advent (Matins)

The Second in Advent (Matins)

October 25th. Matthew 22:1-14 Jesus tells the Parable of The King (God Father) preparing a Banquet (Heaven) for His Son (Jesus) and proud (unbelievers) rsvp-ing No, even killing the Messenger/s whilst the losers (believers) coming and feasting with The Lamb.

October 18th. Matthew 9:1-8 Jesus forgives sins and heals a paralytic.

October 11th. Mathew 22:34-46 Was Jesus a Liberal or a Conservative(?). He articulates the Law and shows He IS the True Gospel.

October 4th. Luke 14:1-11 Jesus heals a man of dropsy on the Sabbath and confronts the Pharisees about the Law (and Gospel).

September 27th. Luke 7:11-17 Jesus encounters a funeral procession and raises the only son of the widow of Nain.

September 20th. Matthew 6:24-34 Jesus (in the Sermon on the Mount) teaches us Contentment using Birds of the Air and Lilies of the Field.

Today the church celebrates the Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross. Holy Cross Day originally commemorated the Emperor Constantine’s Mother, Helen, suppo...sedly discovering the original cross on which our Lord died, in Jerusalem on Sept. 14, AD 320. Whether she actually did or didn’t is a matter of debate. Luther doubted this tradition, and he disapproved of the many superstitions attached to this festival. Nevertheless, Holy Cross Day is an opportunity to glory in the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is our life and salvation. Lessons for the Day Psalm 67 Numbers 21:4-9 Philippians 2:5-11 St. John 12:31-36 Collect for the Day: Merciful and everlasting God, You did not spare Your only Son but delivered Him up for us all that He might bear our sins on the cross: Grant that our hearts may be so fixed with steadfast faith in Him, that we may not fear the power of an adversaries; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one true God, now and forever. Amen. Sing, my tongue, how glorious battle Glorious victory became; And above the cross, His trophy, Tell the triumph and the fame, Tell how, He, the world’s Redeemer, By His death for us o’ercame. God in pity saw us fallen, Shamed and sunk in misery, When we fell on death by tasting Fruit of the forbidden tree: Then another tree was chosen Which the world from death should free. Thus the scheme of our salvation Was of old in order laid, That the manifold deceiver’s Art by art might be outweighed, And the lure the foe put forward Into means of healing made. Therefore, when th’ appointed fullness Of the holy time was come, He was sent, Who maketh all things, Forth from God’s eternal home; Thus He came to earth incarnate, Offspring of a Virgin’s womb. Thirty years among us dwelling, His appointed time fulfilled, Born for this, He meets His Passion, For that this He freely willed, On the cross the Lamb is lifted Where His life-blood shall be spilled. Faithful cross! Above all other, One and only noble tree! None in foliage, none in blossom, None in fruit thy peer may be! Sweetest wood and sweetest iron! Sweetest weight is hung on thee. Thou alone wast counted worthy This world’s ransom to uphold; For a shipwrecked race preparing Harbor, like the ark of old; With the sacred blood anointed From the smitten Lamb that rolled. To the Trinity be glory Everlasting, as is meet; Equal to the Father, equal To the Son and Paraclete: O Thou Three in One, Whose praises All created things repeat. (Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary 298)

September 13th. Luke 17:11-19 Jesus heals ten of leprosy. One (a Samaritan) returns thanks.

September 6th. Luke 10:23-37 Jesus tells the Parable of and IS The Good Samaritan.