Over at New Advent there is a story about a priest who wouldn’t stop the Mass even though someone died during the service. So is this extreme dedication or weird?
Here is the rest of the story.Â
-Lutheran Logomaniac
Ridiculous Snow
So we were/are supposed to be getting the greatest of all storms right now. Up to 20 inches they were predicting. now they are saying 10-15, but it is nasty outside. The silly KUSD (Kenosha Unified School District) didn’t call off school this morning. Fortunately we did. He’s a picture from our front yard:
This one is outside our garage. you can see the downed cable line.
Backyard
You can almost see the church in the background….
So it’s crazy snow. We’ll see how bad the roads and stuff are soon.
-Lutheran Logomaniac
Funeral Sermon for Virginia Campagna
Rev. Todd A. Peperkorn
Messiah Lutheran Church
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Monday after the Presentation (Feb. 4, 2008)
Funeral Sermon for Virginia Campagna
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TITLE: “In Christ, We May Depart in Peace”
The Presentation of Our Lord – 2008
Todd A. Peperkorn, STM
Messiah Lutheran Church
Kenosha, Wisconsin
The Presentation of Our Lord (trans. to Feb. 3, 2008, rev. from 2003)
Luke 2:22-32
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TITLE: “Jesus Presents You Pure and Cleansed to Godâ€
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Amen. Our text this morning is the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple.
The Law of God given to Moses required that a woman, after giving birth, would be set apart for forty days. She could not go to any holy place or touch any holy thing for forty days after giving birth to a son. This was called the period of her purification, because giving birth, even in the best of circumstances, always involves pain and blood. All the way back at the Garden of Eden, the Lord told Eve that she would suffer in child-birth. Even in the giving of life itself, there was an understanding that death is at the door. And death is a very unholy thing, for it is born from sin. Continue reading
A prayer before receiving the Sacrament
Almighty Lord Jesus Christ,
as I come to Your holy table to refresh my spirit,
I pray You to make me, unworthy as I am,
worthy through Your grace;
impure as I am, to make me clean;
naked as I am to clothe me,
so that Your Body, so full of divine power,
and Your most precious Blood
may not become for me, Your servant,
the occasion for judgment or punishment,
but a memorial of the death You underwent for me,
a strengthening of my faith,
a proof of the taking away of my sins,
a bond of closer union with You,
an increase of holiness,
the basis of a glad resurrection,
and a pledge of everlasting life. Amen.