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All women of our church family are invited to attend and participate in our monthly meetings, so please plan on joining us. We meet in our Parish Hall and would love to see you there.

This Office of Morning Prayer can be found on our Facebook livestream. Each episode will prefaced with an informal coffee talk about various and sundry topics, which starts at 8:00a.

This Office of Morning Prayer can be found on our Facebook livestream. Each episode will prefaced with an informal coffee talk about various and sundry topics, which starts at 8:00a.

Saint Irenaeus (c. 130 - c. 200) was born in the East, most lIkely in Smyrna, whose first bishop was Polycarp, a disciple of Saint John the Apostle. Irenaeus became a priest and later Bishop of Lyons, an important trading center in Gaul of the western Roman empire.

Despite his dislike of the teachings of the Montanist and other heretical sects, he often favoured peacemaking and unity instead of persecution in order to win heretics back to the fulness of the Faith. Nonetheless, through his great works "Against Heresies" and "The Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching," he refuted Gnosticism. He emphasized Christian monotheism, our Lord's Incarnation, and advocated the creation of a Canon of Scripture as well as protection of the tradition of apostolic succession of the episcopate.

Collects: O GOD, who gavest grace to blessed Irenaeus thy Martyr and Bishop to overcome false doctrine by the truth of his teaching, and favorably to establish peace in thy Church: give thy people, we beseech thee, constancy in holy religion, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, who didst uphold thy servant Irenaeus with strength to maintain the truth against every wind of vain doctrine: We beseech thee to keep us steadfast in thy true religion, that we may walk in constancy and in peace the way that leadeth to eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: 2Tim.3:14ff

The Gospel: Jhn.10:11ff