[Magdalen] One more liturgy post

[Grace Cangialosi]

Ginga, I've actually been taking every opportunity for several months to refer to the Light shining in the darkness and the fact that we are called to be bearers of that light.
I'm glad that I will be preaching for the whole month of January with the focus on the Epiphany.

> On Dec 31, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Grace, as a pewsitter whose entire life has been given hope by John 1:5,
> please preach this gospel, expecially as we begin 2017.
> 
> Ginga
> 
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm supplying tomorrow at a church that I know well. They're having only
>> one service, which will probably be sparsely attended.
>> The rector said we need to observe the Feast of the Holy Name instead of
>> Christmas 1 and gave me the choice of the two epistle readings. I chose the
>> Phillipians 2 passage for that, but I'm really disappointed that we won't
>> have the Prologue to John's Gospel. I love preaching on that passage, and
>> it seems to me that we need all the light we can get right now.
>> The other appointed readings are singularly uninspiring (sorry, but that's
>> the way it feels!).
>> I have occasionally departed from assigned readings, reading the
>> substitution at the beginning of my sermon.
>> Your thoughts?