AOC Two

   Happy Second Sunday in Lent! The AOC Sunday Report can be downloaded  RIGHT HERE ! There are excellent sermons today from Bishops Jerry and Roy, as well as Revs Jack and Bryan.  Each is different, each is outstanding! Like every day, there are many people who need your prayer, please start with Debbie and Jerry, Tracy, Shamu, Tricia and Mrs. Kay, work out from there. There is an awesome week ahead, a tense one for Debbie and Jerry as Debbie undergoes cardiological testing, we all need the help of that Third God Guy, the Holy Ghost, to let us find the week God has for us, this week in particular. Have an Epic Week! Godspeed, Hap Church of the Faithful Centurion Descanso, California United States of America

    Sermon – Reverend Jack Arnold - Time and Action Church of the Faithful Centurion Descanso, California Today’s sermon brought the Collect, Epistle and Gospel together and is partly contained in the forewords above.    Consider these words from the Collect:   … we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul …   In the Collect, we acknowledge to God that we cannot direct our own lives; if we listen to our own selves we are without guidance.  Consider the airplane flying, it orders its movements according to Polaris, the Pole Star of True North.  If a pilot flies guided by his “inner self” he soon knows only where he is: at the controls, and little else.  Like the pilot who needs to know where the True North is so he can orient himself, we need God’s guidance to move towards our goal

    The Second Sunday in Lent. The Collect.     A LMIGHTY  God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen .   And due to the rubric, the Collect for the Day is followed by the Collect for Ash Wednesday, which is found on Page 124:   The first day of Lent, commonly called Ash Wednesday. The Collect.   A LMIGHTY  and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   ¶ This Collect is to be said every day in Lent, after the Collect appo

    The Propers for today are found on Page 127-128, with the Collect first:   The Second Sunday in Lent. The Collect.     A LMIGHTY  God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   And due to the rubric, the Collect for the Day is followed by the Collect for Ash Wednesday, which is found on Page 124:   The first day of Lent, commonly called Ash Wednesday. The Collect.   A LMIGHTY  and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

    I N  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  2  The same was in the beginning with God.  3   All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.  4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men . . . .  14   And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth .      ( John 1:1-4, 14)               The WORD of God – a subject barely able to breach in human terms for its majesty and reverence – is best summarized in these few introductory verses of the Gospel of St. John. Not only does the Apostle John best summarizes the Word of god in these five verses, but the Mind of God as well as expressed in the Holy Bible. More than the description of a masterpiece of art that the observer can only express in terms of clumsy language, the Word of God is beyond our feeble vocabulary to even nearly approach human expressio

    T HEN  Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?  34   Jesus answered him,  Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?   35   Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?  36   Jesus answered,  My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.   37   Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered,  Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.   38   Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.   ( John 18:32-38)            

    A ND  he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.  2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy;  Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.   3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.  4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said,  Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?   5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?    6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,  (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,)  Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.   7 And he arose, and departed to his house.  8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.  9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him,  Follow me.  And