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The Festival of St. Stephen, Martyr

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Matthew 23:34-39 (NKJV) 23:34 “Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from…

The Feast of the Nativity of our Lord

Posted on December 25, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Titus 2:11-14 (NKJV) 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,…

The Vigil of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-12 (NKJV) 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the…

The Festival of St. Thorlak, Bishop and Confessor

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Matthew 24:42-47 (NKJV)   24:42 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you…

The Monday after Rorate coeli, the Fourth Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 1:39-56 (NKJV)   1:39 Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and…

The Ember Saturday in Advent

Posted on December 20, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 (NKJV)   2:1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ…

The Ember Friday in Advent

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-5 (NKJV)   11:1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.   2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of…

The Ember Wednesday in Advent

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 2:2-5 (NKJV)   2:2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.   3 Many people shall come and say, “Come,…

The Tuesday after Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 1:57-66 (NKJV)   1:57 Now Elizabeth’s full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. 58 When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her.   59 So it was, on the eighth day, that they came…

The Monday after Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday in Advent

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 1:1-15 (NKJV)   1:1 Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also,…