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Festival of the Epiphany of our Lord

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-6 (NKJV)   1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him…

Twelfth Day of Christmas

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Galatians 3:23-29 (NKJV)   3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no…

Eleventh Day after Christmas

Posted on January 4, 2024 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…

Tenth Day of Christmas

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 2:25-32 (NKJV)   2:25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not…

Ninth Day of Christmas

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 2:22-24 (NKJV)   2:22 Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to…

Festival of the Circumcision and Name of Jesus

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Matthew 2:13-18 (NKJV)   2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”  …

Saturday within the Octave of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 2:15-20 (NKJV)   2:15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they came with…

Friday within the Octave of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Luke 2:1-14 (NKJV)   2:1 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3 So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.   4…

Festival of the Holy Innocents

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Matthew 2:18-24 (NKJV)   2:18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”   19 Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying,…

Festival of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 (NKJV)   2:6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages…