Weekly Readings

Listed below are the readings for this week.  You'll notice that there is also a color listed for the week.  The Christian year contains two cycles: the Christmas Cycle (Advent-Christmas-Epiphany) and the Easter Cycle (Lent-Easter-Pentecost). Within each cycle are a preparatory season symbolized by the color purple and a festival season symbolized by the color white. After each cycle there is an ordinary time of growth symbolized by the color green. Thus there is a sequence of seasons using purple, white, and green in that order twice each year.”
                                             (United Methodist Book of Worship, Copyright © 1992 The United Methodist Publishing House, page 226)

• Traditionally purple, representing both royalty and penitence, is used during Advent and Lent.
• Blue symbolizes hope and may also be used during Advent.
• White and gold are used at Christmas and Easter to symbolize joy and festivities.
• Red symbolizes the color of fire to represent the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost and times when the work of the Holy Spirit is emphasized.  During Holy Week it represents the blood of Christ.  Red is also used for ordinations, church anniversaries and civil observances such as Memorial Day and Thanksgiving.
• Green represents growth and is used during Ordinary Time (the season after Epiphany and the season after Pentecost.)

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Resources

Click on the links below for additional resources:

Griefshare.org   Healing from your grief is not easy.  It's a long, sometimes painful process.  Griefshare.org can assist you in finding ways to make a big difference in your progress toward healing.

Find Other Disciples Churches  Are your traveling to another state and want to find a Disciples church to visit?  Or maybe you're moving and need to find a new church home.  This link will take you to a list of Disciples churches across the country.

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