The Prophet Ezekiel

“Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mark 10:4

Sunday, July 20, 2014 Volume 2, Issue 29

The Fear of GodThe Fear of GodThe Fear of GodThe Fear of God Today, in the Gospel reading, we

hear about how our Lord heals another

man who couldn’t walk. After Christ healed

him, the man stood up and walked home!

The Bible says, “When the crowds saw it,

they were afraid, and they glorified God.”

But why were they afraid? Are we supposed

to be afraid of God, too? When our priest is

ready to give us Holy Communion, he says,

“With the fear of God, with faith and love,

draw near.” Should we be afraid, just like the crowds in the Gospel

today were afraid?

Well, this time, when we have fear, it’s not like when we are afraid of

snakes or spiders or sharks. We stay away from those! But when we have

fear of God, we show that we are amazed by Him! We show God that we

are amazed at what He has done. We are amazed by His power. We are

amazed by His love.

When we come for Holy Communion, we come with fear. God is so power-

ful that He could heal the paralyzed man in the story today. God is so

powerful, but He is also so loving that He wants us to come closer to Him!

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What’s in an icon?

WORD FINDWORD FINDWORD FINDWORD FIND

These are two icons of

Prophet Ezekiel. Do you

see what he is holding?

It’s a scroll, and it says

something that you can

find in the book of Eze-

kiel, in the Bible.

Can you find

these words in

the jumble?

AMAZED

BONES

COMMUNION

ELIJAH

EZEKIEL

FEAR

PARALYZED

PROPHET

D E S H Y I R V I A V L F R T

L E J E J H A J H W E C A E Z

C Z Z Y N C E P J I O D U X S

M O J Y J O F A K Y K P Q L D

Y I U H L E B E B N A M L I G

V S E S L A Z P R O P H E T A

N N V I I E R Q B I G T V P M

M V J M I N P A T N Z G S D A

A A U O J B S Q P U D M O Z Z

H Z N X U F A B O M N U F C E

K X Q S Z Z B R R M S A S E D

P M A K Z Z B K X O I X N W S

I T E Y P O V U V C M F F Z C

K E W U U L M W D B C W T P S

W R O M B X J X R R H P I R Y

“The hand of the

Lord was upon me.”

PROPHET EZEKIEL

This week we remember two prophets. A

prophet, remember, is somebody who

speaks for God. God tells him what to say,

and then he tells the people. Today is Prophet

Elijah. But on Wednesday, we remember the

Prophet Ezekiel.

Ezekiel lived 600 years before Christ was

born. But he is still a saint of our Church be-

cause he was close to God and always tried to

do what God wanted from him.

God wanted Ezekiel to tell the people to stop

worshiping idols. So he told them. The people

didn’t want to hear that, so Ezekiel was even

killed for telling them!

On Holy Friday, we remember the day Christ was put on the Cross.

During one of the services on that Friday, we read something from

the book of Ezekiel in the Bible. We hear about the “dry bones”

that will rise up and be alive again. When we hear those words, we

think about how we will rise up one day and be with God.

We celebrate the nameday of St. Ezekiel on Wednesday, July 23rd.

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