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The Altar of Transfiguration
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioMarch 2, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras TransfigurationThe Altar of Transfiguration 28 Now about eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James and ascended the mountain to pray. 29 And as he was praying the appearance of his face was altered and his clothes became dazzling white. 30 And
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Maundy Thursday 2024
Maundy ThursdayWHAT THE APOSTLE RECEIVEDI Corinthians 11:23 We don’t know whether or not Mark’s Gospel was written at the time Paul wrote this letter. Even if Mark’s was written, or sketched, Paul would not have had any opportunity to read it. So we have to ask ourselves, when Paul speaks of “what I received,” how
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Easter 2 2024
“He has raised up on high a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the sons of Israel who are near him. PRAISE THE LORD!” Psalm 148:14) —If ever there was a reason to shout out praises to our God, to sing out alleluias without end, this is it! Because “He has raised up
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Easter 2024
And [the women] said to each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the door of the tomb for us?” And looking up, they beheld that the stone had already been rolled away—for it was very large. And going into the tomb, they saw a young man [an angel] sitting on the right, dressed in
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Easter Vigil
Genesis 1:1–3 (ESV) — 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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Good Friday
“Who although he is God and Man yet he is not two, but one Christ. One not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by assumption of the Manhood into God.” —Every Sunday during Advent we confess the Athanasian Creed as our opening chapel devotion. We confess the same on Trinity Sunday each year
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Wednesday of Holy Week
EASTER DAY/B (03/31/2024): Ps. 16; Isa. 25:6-9; 1 Cor. 15:1-11; Mark 16:1-8 The Crucified One And [the women] said to each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the door of the tomb for us?” And looking up, they beheld that the stone had already been rolled away—for it was very large. And going into the tomb, they saw a
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Passion Sunday 2024
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioMarch 24, 2024by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Passion SundayRituals Of Preparation It was now two days before Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and the chief priests and the scribes were conspiring how to lay their hands on him, so that they could kill him … And while He was in Bethany
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Lent 4 2024
LENT 4/B (03/10/2024): Numbers 21:4-9; Ps. 107:1-9 (ant. 19); Ephesians 2:1-10; John 3:14:21 GRACE [B]y grace, you have been saved through faith; and this is not of your own doing, it is the gift of God … (Eph. 2: 8). This is the Christian faith, the gospel in simplicity. Now, for a chicken or egg question, or in theological lingo,