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Rogation Tuesday

Posted on May 12, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Romans 8:24-28 (NKJV)   8:24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.   26 Likewise the Spirit also…

Rogation Monday

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-6 (NKJV)   2:1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and…

The Saturday after Cantate Sunday

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Acts 16:25-36 (NKJV)   16:25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27…

The Friday after Cantate Sunday

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 52:9-12 (NKJV)   52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.   10 The Lord has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see the…

The Thursday after Cantate Sunday

Posted on May 7, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Colossians 3:12-17 (NKJV)   3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things…

The Wednesday after Cantate Sunday

Posted on May 6, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. John 8:21-36 (NKJV)   8:21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.”   22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?” 23 And…

The Tuesday after Cantate Sunday

Posted on May 5, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (NKJV)   5:14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.   16…

The Monday after Cantate Sunday

Posted on May 4, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 14:1-3 (NKJV)   14:1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. 2 Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and…

The Festival of St. Athanasius of Alexandria, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor

Posted on May 2, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:5-14 (NKJV)   4:5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory…

The Festival of St. Philip and St. James, Apostles

Posted on May 1, 2026 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Ephesians 2:19-22 (NKJV)   2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted…