Kelly - Luke 2

I'm working from the NRSV as well, but the Harper Collins Study Bible.

This chapter's hard to write on....read it so many times that very little strikes me - heard more sermons on these words than I can count. But I suppose that's the only way the words become a part of you.

Two things that were new to me today: one, poor Joseph gets nothing. He shows up without introduction in a quick reference at the beginning of the chapter - and even at the end of the chapter when Jesus is in the temple, he's not referred to by name (it even explicitly says that "my father" refers to someone else). The man raised Jesus - and did not desert Mary when he could have - he deserves more respect than Luke seems to give him. I don't think his name shows up anywhere else in Luke - just one quick note in 2:4.

Also, I never noticed before (again, since didn't grow up in the ELCA) that Simeon's song is part of the liturgy each Sunday - I believe it's the song after communion.