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 fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Sundays and Seasons offers this reflection on the readings we hear:
Jesus protests against human customs being given the weight of divine law, while the essence of God’s law is ignored. True uncleanness comes not from external things, but from the intentions of the human heart. Last week Jesus told us “the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:63). Now James says God has given us birth by the word of truth. We who were washed in the word when we were born in the font return to it every Sunday to ask God to create in us clean hearts.
We focus this morning on the first reading — the only time in the three-year cycle of readings we hear from the Song of Songs.
Our cover image is a mural by Cláudio Pastro depicting Song of Songs 2.10 “Arise, my love, my fair one…” The mural is located in the Mosteiro da Virgem, a Benedictine convent in Petrópolis, Brazil. The photograph we use was taken by Eugenio Hansen, OFS, and is used under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
The other photograph is of a rose of Sharon sneaking through a fence to hang out with the good people of the Church of the Nativity. (Check out Song of Songs 2…)