Sunday - Pentecost 15 - Proper 17

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Highlights and Reflections

Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer - written in the 1970s

Week after the 15th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 17

Today | Sunday | 28 August 2016 | 15th Sunday after Pentecost

Ps. 148 149 150; Ps. 114 115; Job 11:1–9 13–20; Rev. 5:1–14; Matt. 5:1–12

Psalm 148 | Hymn
A third hymn of Praise; Praise the Lord from every fiber of the creation and the Earth.

Job 11
Zophar raves at Job at Job’s word for Z know that God knows J to be a secret sinner and thereby just in giving this punishment on him; From Z’s point of view - God just looks for sinners. How sad for Z.

Revelation 5
A picture of the heavenly throne and the question of who is worthy to open the scroll of the world of God; no one from the heavenly court steps forward; Jesus takes it and everyone sings praises to the Lamb.

Matthew 5
Jesus teaches/preaches the Sermon of the Mount to the crowd and listed the blessed. How are you blessed? Rejoice and be glad for your reward will be great; you are the seasoning and light for the world - let your light shine always.

See Sources particularly NOAB4.

Tomorrow| Monday | 29 August 2016

Ps. 25; Ps. 9 15; Job 12:1–6 13–25; Acts 11:19–30; John 8:21–32

Collect of the Day: proper 17

Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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