November 5, 2009
The Lord be with you
On the calendar used by the LCMS, today is the Commemoration of Zecharias and Elizabeth. I thought, therefore, I’d share something about this couple.
Zecharias and Elizabeth were “righteous before God, walking blamelessly in the commandments and statutes of the Lord” (Luke 1:6). Zecharias, a priest in the Jerusalem temple, was greeted by the angel Gabriel, who announced that Zecharias and Elizabeth would become parents of a son. Initially, Zecharias did not believe Gabriel’s announcement because of their old age. F

Zecharias’ song is called the Benedictus because the first word in Latin, the standard Bible for over 1,000 years, is “benedictus.”
Blessings in Christ,
Pastor John Rickert
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