It’s official! Synergy Brass Quintet returns to Holy Innocents on Sunday, August 28th at 4pm, with a dessert buffet to follow the concert. Tickets will soon be on sale, and this fundraiser will benefit Holy Innocents, so please tell friends and family to mark their calendars and save the date.

Synergy’s dynamic concert performances are not to be missed! These fine young musicians present classical and popular music for everyone to enjoy, and they are at a very exciting point in their career. They’ll also be performing at Ravinia on August 21st, so consider attending both concerts to show your support for good music, good food, and good friends.

I’m sure that more than a few of us will be wearing our Synergy T-shirts at one or both appearances, and of course shirts and CDs will be available for purchase at the concert as in previous years.

Another date to save – Father’s Day is Sunday June 19th, and on that day an opera group from Elgin will perform in concert at Holy Innocents at 3pm!

More information will be forthcoming.

The readings for the previous week for the first Sunday in Trinity are here.

The readings for this Sunday, May 29:

Deuteronomy 11:18-21,26-28
Romans 3:21-25a,28
Matthew 7:21-27
Psalm 31 or 31:1-5,19-24

The Gospel reading:

Matthew 7:21-27

Jesus said. “Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?’ Then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.’

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell– and great was its fall!”

Let us all look to our own foundations (literal and spiritual) in preparation for this reading!