St. Lucia: Revelation 7:14-17

Then [one of the elders in heaven] told me, “These are the ones coming out of the terrible suffering.  They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  That is why they are before the throne of God and worship him night and day in his Temple.  The one […]

St. Stephen, Deacon, Martyr

Intro We have an old 13th-Century Christmas carol, later paraphrased in the 1850s, called “Good King Wenceslaus.”  King Wenceslaus was a real person.  In the 10th century, he was the Duke of Bohemia.  He was also a devout Christian. One morning, on his way to the Divine Service, a band of ruffians, led by his […]