Joelle leads Morning and Evening prayer this week. Morning Prayer – Joelle considers a passage from Matthew’s Gospel chapter 3, verses 1 to 12. This scripture describes John the Baptist, foretelling Jesus’ coming to the many who came for baptism – most especially the Pharisees and Sadducees; “‘I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing-fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.’”