The NT lection for Saturday, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, is 2 Corinthians 4.
Paul connects God's creation-word, "Let there be light," with HM's creation-word of regeneration, namely, the God who has shone into our hearts with the knowledge, salvation and love of Jesus Christ." As we confess in Articles 9-10 of the Articles of Religion, God alone turns us to Himself.
That word is sovereign and effectual, despite the darkness and benighted minds and lives around us. Again, articles 9-10 speak of our falleness and utter helplessness apart from God's redeeming work. Many collects assert the same. Christ is the "Light of the World," Jn.8.12, and He has shon into our minds and life. As we pray, "...in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom."
While Ms. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the US's Primate of the TEC, would call this the "great Western heresy" (salvation), we will stick with St. Paul and the Prayer Book response, the Jubilate Deo, or, Psalm 100.
Where is the outcry against this false teacher, Ms. Jefferts Schori? We Anglicans in the wilderness are led by Scriptures, not apostate teachers such as her. We are not led by non-apostolic successors trashing biblical and doctrinal succession. We are led by the apostolic message and those who maintain, as Pastors, doctrinal succession. Jefferts Schori and hundreds like her are not in that succession. St. Paul's Word stands. In response to it, we sing Psalm 100 heartily.
We host Henry Purcell's Jubilate Deo in D major, Z. 232 as sung by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Psalm 100 is an excellent response to God's sovereign, unilateral and effectual call to life in Christ.
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