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NOVEMBER 2024
Pastor Phil’s Ramblings
Well, here we are, the year is almost over. We’re in the final month of our church year, Year B, the year of Mark. As you are reading this, we have celebrated Reformation Sunday, the day that commemorates the founding of the Lutheran Church, October 31, 1517, All Hallows Eve. Many of us wore red to commemorate the deaths of so very many martyrs. The number of people who were martyred for daring to challenge the pope runs into the hundreds. Martin Luther painted the doors of the church red as a reminder of what people sacrificed for their beliefs.
Next Sunday we will celebrate All Souls Day, (which is traditionally on November 1st.) It is the day we remember all the saints of our church who have gone ahead of us to the heavenly banquet. We remember with sadness their passing, while we look forward with anticipation to the great and glorious day when we will be reunited with them.
Then, on the last Sunday of November we will celebrate the culmination of the church year as we celebrate Christ the King Sunday. Every text we have considered this year has led up to this moment, the proclamation that Jesus, Son of God and son of man, is the Christ, the messiah, the Lord of the Universe.
And then, on the first Sunday of December we begin our celebration of Advent, where we look not to Christmas, but to Jesus coming again, this time in glory, to claim the earth as his own, to usher in the Messianic age. Our travel through the gospel, telling the wonderful story of how Jesus has come to us, this
