St. Simon and St. Jude
Appointed Lessons
Deuteronomy 32:1-4 * Ephesians 2:13-22 * John 15:17-27 * Psalm 119:89-96
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
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Classic Texts
Gregory of Nazianzus: Belonging to His One Family
“So we are no longer to be ‘male and female, barbarian and Scythian, slave and free’ — distinctions deriving from the flesh — but are to bear within ourselves only the seal of God, by whom and for whom we were created. We are to be so formed and molded by him that we are recognized as belonging to his one family.”
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Christopher Wells: With All the Saints in Every Place: Ineluctable Ecumenism
“…In Christ, by his blood and in his body, divisions and hostilities are destroyed, and peace installed in its place. This is a description of the historical Church, both past and present: the Church that is the ark of salvation, the communion and fellowship of all the saints.”
