BULLETIN FOR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, 2025

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, 2025

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INTRODUCTION​

The glory of God is often revealed when and where it is least expected. God uses
     our lips to declare that glory, inexperienced and hesitant though they may be.
     God uses our love to demonstrate that glory and so urges us to exercise it. God
     uses Jesus of Nazareth, water and the word, bread and wine, to reveal God’s
     glory where and when God chooses. Take heed, lest the glory of God slip
     through our midst unnoticed.

PRAYER OF THE DAY

Almighty and ever-living God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and love; and
     that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command, through
     your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.​

FIRST READING

JEREMIAH 1:4-10
God calls Jeremiah to be a prophet and consecrates him in the womb.
     Jeremiah’s task is to preach God’s word amid the difficult political realities of his
     time, before the Babylonian exile. He is to make God known not only to Judah,
     but also to the nations.

4 Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,

     5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
     and before you were born I consecrated you;
      I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
    6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak,

     for I am only a boy.” 7 But the Lord said to me,
     “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’
     for you shall go to all to whom I send you,
     and you shall speak whatever I command you.
     8 Do not be afraid of them,
     for I am with you to deliver you,
     says the Lord.”

     9 Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth,
     and the Lord said to me,
         “Now I have put my words in your mouth.
     10 See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms,
     to pluck up and to pull down,
     to destroy and to overthrow,
     to build and to plant.”

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PSALM

PSALM 71:1-6
(Response) From my mother’s womb you have been my strength. (Ps. 71:6)

1 In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free;
incline your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe;
you are my crag and my stronghold.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.
(Response) From my mother’s womb you have been my strength. (Ps. 71:6)

5 For you are my hope, O Lord God,
my confidence since I was young.
6 I have been sustained by you ever since I was born; from my mother’s womb
        you have been my strength; my praise shall be always of you.
(Response) From my mother’s womb you have been my strength. (Ps. 71:6)

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SECOND READING

1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-13
Christians in Corinth prided themselves on their spiritual gifts. Paul reminds them
     that God gives us many gifts through the Holy Spirit, but the purpose behind all of
     them is love, the kind of love that God showed us in Jesus Christ.

1 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a
     noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers and
     understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove
     mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions
     and if I hand over my body so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

     4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude.
     It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;
     6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things,
     believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

     8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for
     tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know
     only in part, and we prophesy only in part, 10 but when the complete comes, the
     partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought
     like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to
     childish ways. 12 For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will
     see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have
     been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the
     greatest of these is love.

​​​​GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. You shall go to all to whom I send you. Do not be afraid,

  for I am with you. Alleluia. (Jer. 1:7, 8)

GOSPEL READING
LUKE 4:21-30

People in Jesus’ hometown are initially pleased when he says that God will free
     the oppressed. Their pleasure turns to rage when he reminds them that God’s
     prophetic mission typically pushes beyond human boundaries so that mercy and
     healing are extended to those regarded as outsiders.

21 Then [Jesus] began to say to [all in the synagogue in Nazareth,] “Today this
     scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 All spoke well of him and were
     amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is this not
     Joseph’s son?” 23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb,
     ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the
     things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.’ ” 24 And he said, “Truly I tell
     you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 But the truth is, there were many
     widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years
     and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land, 26 yet Elijah was
     sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 There were
     also many with a skin disease in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none
     of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard this, all in
     the synagogue were filled with rage. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town,
     and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might
     hurl him off the cliff. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.​

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