223 W. Lafayette Street - Bolivar - TN - 38008 - (731) 658-4439
*St. James will reopen for services on Sunday June 7th! Morning Prayer and Sermon, 11:00 am.
Day of Pentecost Sermon: 'You Shall Receive Power' is now posted in the Messenger Section.
Sunday School study of the Book of Revelation is posted.
Live stream Sunday services from Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis can be found at https//www.2pc.org, Services are at 8:15 am, 11:00 am and 6:00 pm.
We bid you peace and welcome in the Name of the risen Lord, Jesus Christ. Please come worship with us.
Collect for Whitsunday (Pentecost)
God, which upon this day hast taught the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things; and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our savior; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. (Thomas Cranmer)
The Christian festival of Whitsunday parallels the Jewish festival of Pentecost, as the Christian Easter corresponds to Passover. As the Hebrew Pentecost commemorates the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai and is also a time of harvest thanksgiving, so the Church celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and the Church's first harvest of souls. The collect comes from the Gregorian Sacramentary (circa 600 AD). The English name of the feast is a shortening of "White Sunday," referring to the white garments worn by the newly baptized on this day. The weather was warmer in England on this day than at Easter and more baptisms took place at this later season. (Collects of Thomas Cranmer, Barbee and Zahl, 1999).
Day of Pentecost Sermon: 'You Shall Receive Power' is now posted in the Messenger Section.
Sunday School study of the Book of Revelation is posted.
Live stream Sunday services from Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis can be found at https//www.2pc.org, Services are at 8:15 am, 11:00 am and 6:00 pm.
We bid you peace and welcome in the Name of the risen Lord, Jesus Christ. Please come worship with us.
Collect for Whitsunday (Pentecost)
God, which upon this day hast taught the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things; and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our savior; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. (Thomas Cranmer)
The Christian festival of Whitsunday parallels the Jewish festival of Pentecost, as the Christian Easter corresponds to Passover. As the Hebrew Pentecost commemorates the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai and is also a time of harvest thanksgiving, so the Church celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and the Church's first harvest of souls. The collect comes from the Gregorian Sacramentary (circa 600 AD). The English name of the feast is a shortening of "White Sunday," referring to the white garments worn by the newly baptized on this day. The weather was warmer in England on this day than at Easter and more baptisms took place at this later season. (Collects of Thomas Cranmer, Barbee and Zahl, 1999).
