You can join the service on YouTube!
The stream will begin shortly before 10 am, and you’re able to watch or re-watch the live-stream at this YouTube link at any time.
The order of service is available here.
Having it handy will make it easier to join in more fully–includes the words to the hymns, the readings & all of the responses. It also has prayers that you may wish to use as those physically present receive the eucharist.
This is the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Sundays and Seasons offers this reflection on the gospel we hear:
Three weeks ago we heard Peter’s confession of faith as told in John’s gospel. This week we hear Mark’s version, when Peter says, “You are the Messiah.” In John, the stumbling block is Jesus’ invitation to eat his flesh, given for the life of the world. In Mark too the scandal has to do with Jesus’ words about his own coming death, and here Peter himself stumbles over Jesus’ words. But Jesus is anointed (the meaning of messiah) in Mark only on the way to the cross (14:3); so we are anointed in baptism with the sign of the cross.
Our cover image is a mural of Wisdom, personified. The caption beneath the mural reads “Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers.” The mural is in the north corridor of the second floor of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, DC. It was painted by Robert Lewis Reid in 1896, and the photograph we use was taken by Carol Highsmith who placed the photograph in the public domain.