First Sunday
after Christmas
December 31st
Divine Service Setting Five
Reading of the Holy Gospel
Isaiah 62:1-5
2 Corinthians 1:12-24
Luke 2:22-40
Collect of the Day: O God, our Maker and Redeemer, You
wonderfully created us and in the incarnation of Your Son yet more wondrously
restored our human nature. Grant that we
may ever be alive in Him who made Himself to be like us; through Jesus Christ,
our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and
forever. Amen.
Theme for the Week Redeemed First Born
Verse of the Week: Luke 2:30-31
Daily Bible
Reading List:
Mon: Numbers 18:12-20 Tues:
Ephesians 1:15-23 Wed: Luke
2:22-40
Thurs: Isaiah 62:1-5 Fri:
Luke 13:31-35
Catechism Reading:
Fourth
What
does such baptizing with water indicate?
It
indicates that the Old Adam in us
should
by daily contrition and repentance
be
drowned and die with all sins and evil desires,
and
that a new man should daily emerge and arise
to
live before God in righteousness and purity forever.
Where
is this written?
St. Paul writes in Romans chapter six:
"We
were therefore buried with Him
through
baptism into death
in
order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
through
the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life" (Romans 6:4).
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