After the making the case conference, join the Concordia Catechetical Academy at Peace Lutheran Church in Sussex, Wisconsin for our annual Symposium on Catechesis, Christ and the Law, Catechesis on the Ten Commandments.

With Dr. Aaron Muldenauer, Pastor Rick Stuckwisch, Pastor Bernal Eckhart, Pastor Karl Fabrizius, Pastor Wolf Price and myself, Peter Bender, June 21st through the 23rd, learn more at PeaceSussex.org.

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And which we leave the most, and your presence, glory, garsher, and his ending, when our own home worth will be made, to the end.

For him to you we pray, God, the Holy Ghost, ending there with that cry for mercy, often coming out of the mouths of beggars in the New Testament, and that's what this coming Sunday, the first Sunday after Trinity in the one-year electionary, puts the emphasis on, a beggar and a rich man, and we as beggars before God.

Welcome back to issues et cetera, coming to you live from the studios of Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois.

I'm Todd Wilkin, thanks for tuning us in. It's time to look forward to Sunday morning, according to the one-year electionary, Pastor Peter Bender joins us.

He's Pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in Sussex, Wisconsin, and Director of the Concordia Catechetical Academy. Peter, welcome back.

Good to be with you, Todd.

How should we think about these numerous Sundays here in the other half of the church here that follow Trinity Sunday?

Yes, there could be as many as 27 Sundays in some years, depending on where Easter falls.

Well, we've just come out of the festival half of the church here, that began an advent and culminated with the gift of the Holy Spirit poured out upon the apostles on Pentecost,

the festival half of the church here, the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, all that He did for us, that we celebrate in that festival half of the church here.

So this non-festival half of the church here, these Sundays after Trinity, are the time of the Christian faith and life, how faith is created, how we're called to faith, how faith is nurtured,

and then the fruits of faith in terms of the love that is born in the Christian because of their faith in Jesus, a love that is born in us by the gospel.

So there can be an emphasis on sanctification during this period of Trinity, tied, it could be a time in which we're focusing upon the means of grace through which faith is strengthened and nourished and so forth.

So it's the time of the church, it is sometimes called, or the time of the Christian life of faith and love.

And there have been attempts to make kind of organizational groupings of Sundays within Trinity, and I guess personally I've not found them all that convincing.

Each Sunday is remarkably consistent within itself, but I'm not sure that we can detect necessarily a pattern for the first six Sundays of Trinity, tied, and then the next 10 and so forth.

I mean, there are certain festivals that appear during the season, like in the month of June, the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul.

In August, you've got the great feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, and there you can focus on Christian charity and love especially.

Toward the end of the Trinity season from St. Michael and all angels, September 29th to the end of the church year, you do have an emphasis upon battling against devil, world, and flesh, how we are to stand up under persecution, and then of course, as the end of the church year rolls around, you begin to look forward to eschatological themes.

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