Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Worship: Noon Eucharist, soup meal follows; 7 pm Vespers, soup meal at 6 pm.

Gen. 15:1-12; 17-18; Ps.27; Phil. 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35

Luke 13:34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it."

             In chapter 9 of Luke's Gospel account, after the Transfiguration, Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem". For the next ten chapters, over one-third of this gospel, Jesus and the disciples travel to Jerusalem, arriving in chapter 19 in the humble procession down from the Mount of Olives. Jerusalem was the center of religious power in Israel. And prophets were indeed killed there. Second Chronicles tells of the slaying of the prophet Zechariah, son of the priest Jehoiada, who opposed King Joash' setting up of asherim, cult objects related to the Canaanite goddess Asherah. This Zechariah was stoned to death in the very court of the Temple. Tradition says that the prophet Isaiah was also slain in Jerusalem.  And now Jesus will go up to the great city.

 O God, fountain of life, may we follow you wherever your hand leads us. Amen

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