Ascension St. Matthew’s
A Congregation Rooted in Episcopal and Lutheran Traditions
Price, Utah
Join us for Worship and Holy Communion on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
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FAITH
Doesn’t always take you out of the problem. Faith takes you through the problem.
Faith doesn’t always take away the pain, Faith gives you the ability to handle the pain.
Faith doesn’t always take you out of the storm, Faith calms you in the midst of the storm.
AMEN
The first ever cordless phone was created by God. He named it prayer. It never loses its signal and you never have to recharge it. Use it anywhere.
Amen
Our Bishops:
The Rt. Rev. Phyllis Spiegel, Episcopal Dioscese of Utah and
Bishop Jim Gonia of the Rocky Mountain Synod, ELCA will retire in July.
The Rev. Meghan Johnston Aelabouni was called to be the new Bishop at the 2024 Assembly.
God’s Work. Our Hands. God’s World. Our Neighborhood. All are Welcome. Come Share the Spirit
May 5th- Sixth Sunday of Easter , Year B
Readings - First Reading Acts 10:44-48 , Psalm 98
Second Reading - 1 John 5:1-6, Gospel - John 15:9-17
This Sunday’s image of the life the risen Christ shares with us is the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John’s gospel, the image of servanthood is too hierarchical, too distant, to capture the essence of life with Christ. Friendship captures the love, the joy, the deep mutuality of the relationship into which Christ invites us. The Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit.
May 12th- Seventh Sunday of Easter , Year B
Readings - First Reading Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 , Psalm 1
Second Reading - 1 John 5:9-13, Gospel - John 17:6-19
The gospel for Easter’s seventh Sunday is always taken from the long prayer Jesus prays for his followers in John’s gospel on the night before his death, and always includes Jesus’ desire that his followers will be one as he and the Father are one. This oneness is not mere doctrinal agreement or institutional unity, but mutual abiding, interpenetrating life, mutual love, and joy. This oneness is the work of the Spirit whom we have received but also await. Come, Holy Spirit!
May 19th- Day of Pentecost, Year B
Readings - Acts 2:1-21 , Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Second Reading - Romans 8:22-27, Gospel - John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15
Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Crossing all boundaries that would separate us, the Spirit brings the wideness of God’s mercy to places we least expect it—to a crowd of strangers of different lands and tongues, to dry bones, to our weak hearts. Jesus promises his disciples that they will be accompanied by the Holy Spirit, and that this Spirit reveals the truth. We celebrate that we too have been visited with this same Spirit. Guided by the truth, we join together in worship, and then disperse to share the fullness of Christ’s love with the world.
May 26th- Holy Trinity, First Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Readings - Isaiah 6:1-8, Psalm 29
Second Reading - Romans 8:12-17, Gospel - John 3:1-17
When we say God is the triune God, we are saying something about who God is beyond, before, and after the universe: that there is community within God. Our experience of this is reflected in Paul’s words today. When we pray to God as Jesus prayed to his Abba (an everyday, intimate parental address), the Spirit prays within us, creating between us and God the same relationship Jesus has with the one who sent him.
June 2nd- Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Readings - Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Psalm 81:1-10
Second Reading - 2 Corinthians 4:5-12, Gospel - Mark 2:23-3:6
Deuteronomy makes clear that sabbath-keeping is meant for the welfare of all. God delivered the Israelites out of slavery, so they should observe this freedom with a day of rest. No one should work seven days a week; even slaves and foreigners should be able to rest. Yet human beings can turn even the most liberating religious practice into a life-destroying rule. Jesus does not reject sabbath-keeping, but defends its original life-enhancing meaning. Our worship and our religious way of life are to lead to restoration: the hungry being fed and the sick being healed.
Welcome to God’s table of grace
“2024 Theme & Verse”
And let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts, to which, indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15