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Congratulations to Woodstock High School Graduates:  Adam Taylor, Dalton Griffith, Isabelle Fletcher, Jenna Rees, Riley Martin, and Grace Hall!  And to Canterbury High School graduate Mariah Hume!  St. Luke’s church family is proud of you!

This is an exciting time!  The celebration of graduation has several dimensions. One is academic, and this is expressed through the conferring of diplomas, the valedictory address, and perhaps other speeches. A second dimension is social: parties at home and among the graduating students, both in school and elsewhere. For Anglicans and other Christians and persons of other faiths, graduation also has a religious dimension. This calls for religious celebrations, such as we are experiencing on June 27, 2021.

Worship is a time for you as students to give thanks for the presence of God throughout your High School years. It is a time as well to ask for God’s continued blessing and presence in your lives. It is a time to commit yourselves to living the Christian life more seriously and intentionally in the days and years that lie ahead.

Your graduation is also an important event for your church family. It is an occasion to acknowledge the rich heritage of faith in and by which each of you have been nourished during your formative years, whether in Sunday School, Confirmation, Youth Group, Acolyte Guild, Worship, or wherever God has touched your life!

Today your church family celebrates the variety of gifts manifested in you and we give thanks to God who is the giver of all good things!  May God’s richest blessing be upon each of you in all your future endeavors!

Romans 15:4 “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”