Tuesday - Pentecost 8 - Proper 10
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Highlights and Reflections
Daily Office Reading from the Book of Common Prayer
Week after the Eighth Sunday of Pentecost - Proper 10
Opening Sentence
Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, "I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:15
Today | Tuesday | 12 July 2016
Psalm 26
But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me;
But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me;
My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation, I will bless the Lord.
Joshua 2
Rahab and the spies; they hide and then return to Joshua giving him a positive report.
Romans 11
Paul continues … talking of non-Jewish believers being grafted into the vine to grow and flourish.
Matthew 25
This saying of Jesus as he continues toward Jerusalem is a twist of the English language - a talent of gold was worth 15 years of labor; but in the English it points also to the question what are we going to do with everything God has given us .. our time, our talent, and treasure - signs of God’s love? What are we wasting today?
Tomorrow | Wednesday | 13 July 2016
Ps. 38; Ps. 119:25–48; Joshua 3:1–13; Rom. 11:25–36; Matt. 25:31–46
A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
General Thanksgiving
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom
Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.
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