Thursday - Epiphany 1
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Brooklyn Museum - The Palsied Man Let Down through the Roof(Le paralytique descendu du toit) - James Tissot |
Highlights & Mini-Bible Study
Thursday after the first Sunday after Epiphany
I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth. Isaiah 49:6b BCP p. 76
Today | Thursday | 12 January 2017 a.d./c.e.
Psalm 18
O Lord you are my protector;
God saved me after I prayed for help;
God came down from heaven and saved me;
God moved to whole creation in order to save me;
God rescued me.
Ephesians 2 | Background
(Paul) You are now under a new law by Christ Jesus that unites us into one body to everyone; You are citizens and family with God;
You are a dwelling place for God.
Mark 1 | Background
Jesus came home to Capernaum and was surrounded by the crowd to listen to him and some healing; friends of a paralysed man lowered him from the roof; Jesus saw their faith - Your sins are forgiven; Scribes thought What????; Jesus - is it easier to forgive sins or heal the man; and Jesus healed the man and all were amazed at the new thing.
S: Book of Common Prayer; Mission St Clare; New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th ed.; HS+; biblegateway.com; New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Prayers and Intercessions | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer.
Collect of the Day: The First Sunday after the Epiphany
Collect of the Day: The First Sunday after the Epiphany
Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
For Mission
Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
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.
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