Sundays at the Chapel

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Sunday morning services will return Sunday, August 18, 2024.

Sixth Sunday in Easter

10 AM May 5, 2024

Our theme: This Sunday’s image of the life the risen Christ shares with us is the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John’s gospel, the image of servanthood is too hierarchical, too distant, to capture the essence of life with Christ. Friendship captures the love, the joy, the deep mutuality of the relationship into which Christ invites us. The Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit.

Rev. James Wetzstein, University Pastor, preaches and presides

Have questions about what worship on Sunday morning is like at the Chapel? Read more here!

Find previous services on our YouTube channel. You may also hear recordings of sermons here.

Please email prayer requests to prayer@valpo.edu.

Our pastoral staff will continue to be available and encourage you to use their “You Can Book Me” contacts for appointments.

This Sunday’s Readings

While Peter shares the good news of Jesus with a Gentile soldier and his family, the Holy Spirit comes upon them. Recognizing that the Spirit works inclusively in the lives of both Jews and Gentiles, Peter commands that these Gentiles also be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

⁴⁴While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. ⁴⁵The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, ⁴⁶for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, ⁴⁷“Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” ⁴⁸So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.

God’s children believe that Jesus is the Messiah and love God by keeping God’s commandments. Thus the world is conquered not through military might but through love and faith.

¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. ²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, ⁴for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. ⁵Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth.

On the night of his arrest, Jesus delivers a final testimony to his disciples to help them in the days ahead. Here, he repeats the most important of all his commands, that they love one another.

[Jesus said:] ⁹“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
¹²“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. ¹⁷I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.”

Upcoming at the Chapel:

The Chapel of the Resurrection invites you to worship with us in person or online at 10 a.m. for Sunday mornings when classes are in session during the regular school year.

Have questions about what Sunday morning worship is like at the Chapel? Look here!

Recordings of the sermons from various services can be found on our sermons page.

Pastor Kate and Pastor Jim, our university pastors, take turns preaching week to week.

Sun., Nov. 12, 2023 – Rev. Katherine Museus

Sun., Nov. 5, 2023 – All Saints Sunday – View the livestream

Sun., Oct. 29, 2023 – Reformation Sunday – Rev. Katherine Museus – View the livestream

Sun., Oct. 22, 2023 – Rev. James Wetzstein – View the livestream

Sun., Oct. 8, 2023 – Rev. James Wetzstein – View the livestream

Sun., Oct. 1, 2023 – Rev. Katherine Museus – View the livestream

Sun., Sept. 24, 2023 – Homecoming Sunday – Rev. James Wetzstein – View the livestream

Sun., Sept. 17, 2023 – Rev. Katherine Museus – Read the manuscript

Sun., Sept. 10, 2023 – Rev. James Wetzstein – View the livestream

Sun., Sept. 3, 2023 – Rev. Katherine Museus – View the livestream

Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023 – Rev. James Wetzstein – View the livestream

Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023 – Welcome Sunday – Rev. Katherine Museus – View the livestream

Jan. 15 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Jan. 22 – Rev. Dr. Amanda Brobst-Renaud
Jan. 29 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Feb. 5 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Feb. 12 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Feb. 19 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Feb. 26 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
March 5 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein ~ Gloria Christi Chapel
March 12 – Rev. Dr. Brian Beckstrom, assistant vice president for mission, church, and ministry ~ Gloria Christi Chapel
March 19 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay ~ Gloria Christi Chapel
March 26 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
April 2 (Palm Sunday)- Rev. Katherine Museus
April 9 (Easter Sunday) – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
April 16 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
April 23 – Rev. Katherine Museus
April 30 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
May 7 – Rev. Katherine Museus
May 12 at 5 p.m. – Baccalaureate
May 14 – Worship in Gloria Christi Chapel
May 21 – Worship in Gloria Christi Chapel
May 28 – Worship in Gloria Christi Chapel

Aug. 21 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Aug. 28 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Sept. 4 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Sept. 11 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Sept. 18 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Sept. 25 (Homecoming) – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay/Message by Soul Purpose
Oct. 2 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Oct. 9 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Oct. 16 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Oct. 23 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Oct. 30 (Reformation Sunday) – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Nov. 4 (All Saints Sunday/Family Weekend) – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Nov. 13 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Nov. 20 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Nov. 27 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Dec. 4 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay
Dec. 11 – Rev. James A. Wetzstein
Dec. 18 – Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay

Agnus Day

Agnus Day is a weekly cartoon drawn by Pr. James Wetzstein, usually based on Sunday’s gospel reading. It is normally updated on this site on Wednesdays.

JOHN 15:9-17

BIBLE PASSAGE — As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be […]
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