{"id":33,"date":"2026-09-21T17:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:57:57","slug":"worship-music-corner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/worship-music-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship & Music Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Greetings to all the friends of Holy Cross Lutheran Church! This is the official launch of the \u201cWorship & Music Corner\u201d of our new and improved Website! This \u201ccorner\u201d is designed to inform all who read it about different aspects of our Worship Services.<\/p>

Holy Cross is a Lutheran Church under the banner of \u201cLutheran Churches in Missions for Christ\u201d or LCMC. Because we are a Lutheran Church we use many tools in which to enhance the worship of our Lord Jesus. Tools such as musical instruments, candles, different color banners and paraments (cloths on the altar), vestments (robes on the Pastor), etc. Color has been used in many traditional Christians churches throughout the ages. Color helps to enhance our worship experience and has been used to represent different aspects of our liturgical year.<\/p>

We just celebrated the Baptism of our Lord Sunday. We had the white paraments on the altar because white is symbolic of innocence. Through Baptism our sins are washed away and we become \u2018clean\u2019 because of Jesus Christ. His purity before His Father becomes our purity. For the rest of the Month of January we will be celebrating Epiphany. This word comes from the Greek word, epiphaneia which means \u201cappearance\u201d or \u201cmanifestation.\u201d It is at this time of year that we celebrate the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus, into the world. Epiphany begins with the arrival of the Magi. Matthew, in his Gospel, tells us these kings of the East followed a star and delivered gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus.<\/p>

Epiphany is the celebration of Jesus and His coming.<\/p>

This season begins on the Day of the Epiphany (January 6 of this year) and lasts until Ash Wednesday. The liturgical color is green, which represents the green things of God\u2019s creation. When spring breaks forth and things become green again, we see the health and beauty of God\u2019s work in the world. May you grow in your walk of faith as God leads you through this new year.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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WORSHIP & MUSIC CORNER January 7, 2024 Greetings to all the friends of Holy Cross Lutheran Church! This is the official launch of the \u201cWorship & Music Corner\u201d of our new and improved Website! This \u201ccorner\u201d is designed to inform all who read it about different aspects of our Worship Services. Holy Cross is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/holycrossbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}