Service for Sunday, March 19, 2023: Morning Prayer in Your "Jammies"

 NOTE: for reasons unknown, the service for March 12 remained in draft form -- until today.  It has now been published, with apologies for the oversight.  And here is the Service for TODAY, March 19, 2023 -- the Fourth Sunday in Lent.  May both services bless your day.  😊

Today's online service of Morning Prayer is provided by Rev. Robert Sears on behalf of the Anglican Parish of St. John's, Olds, Alberta.

Rev. Robert's commentary on his sermon:

"The Gospel is John 9 and the man born blind. Today's Gospel is about blindness, both physical and moral.

We begin with the disciples. They share a common belief. When they see a man who was born blind, they asked Jesus who's fault was it? Their assumption was that the man's physical disability was a punishment -- so someone had to be to blame.

Jesus decided the turn their prejudice on its head. His view was that neither the man nor his parents were to blame for congenital blindness. But now Jesus would use the man's condition to be a sign of God's good works and an object lesson on moral blindness."

Readings for Sunday, March 19, 2023 -- the 4th Sunday of Lent

1 Samuel 16: 1-13

Psalm 23

Ephesians 5:8-14

The Gospel of John 9: 1-41.