Midweek Divine Service

Our lessons for this evening are those appointed for the First Sunday after the Epiphany. As the lessons are read, pay special attention to the theme of the temple. The temple of the Lord was the place that Solomon built. It was also the place that Jesus’ visited when He was 12 years of age. The temple is the place we come to when we come to Church, even as Christ came to be the temple through whose offering, we have atonement. We rejoice to come to God’s temple here, as we receive from the temple on High God’s good gifts to forgive our sins, make us holy, and strengthen our faith. We present our bodies also as living temples of the Lord, giving Him our praises.