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The First Sunday after Trinity

So while the rich man is rich, and Lazarus is poor, while the rich man feasts sumptuously everyday and Lazarus longs for the scraps from the rich man’s table, while the rich man is covered in purple and fine linen, and Lazarus is covered in sores … while all this is the case, Lazarus is not without some earthly comfort. For Jesus adds this, “Moreover the dogs came to lick his sores.” The dogs, who know their master, come as God’s ministers to give what comfort they can, on top of the comfort that Lazarus already has in the Word and promises found in Moses and the prophets.

The First Sunday after Trinity

The First Sunday after Trinity Luke 16:19–31 + IN NOMINE IESU + We shouldn’t be surprised that there has never been a completely pure church, that there have been many who have been baptized and bore the Christian name, but who denied this name and their Baptism by their works. Christ Himself tells us this…