Tuesday - Pentecost 20 - Proper 22

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Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication

Week after the 20th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 22

Pray

Today |

Psalm 121

Where do I see God?

In the creation in everything;

God watches over me all of the time;

The Lord will keep watch and protect me.

Acts 23

A group of 40 religious zealots pledge to kill Paul through an ambush; Paul’s sister hears of it and tells someone who tells Paul who tells the guard who tells the Tribune who does not want anyone to hear of the plot.

Luke 7

Jesus finishes his teaching and moves along the way and a messenger from a Roman Centurion asks him to heal a servant; Jesus goes there but along the way a messenger from the Centurion stops Jesus says to him just say the word and my servant will be healed because I know what authority is; Jesus says what great faith; and the messenger finds the servant healed when he returns.

Prayers

Collect of the Day: proper 22

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer of Discipleship

Loving God,

I thank you for choosing me to be your disciple

And for the gift of your Son, Jesus.

Help me proclaim and bear witness to the Gospel

By word and by deed

Today and every day.

Open my heart to

The outcast, the forgotten,

The lonely, the sick, and the poor.

Grant me the courage

To think, to choose, and to live as a Christian,

Joyfully obedient to God.

Amen

Adapted from the Homily of Pope Francis, Basilica of St Pay Outside-the-Walls, Third Sunday of Easter, April 12, 2013.