Wednesday - Epiphany 1

Christ with Disciples
By Андрей Николаевич Миронов (A.N. Mironov)
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Highlights & Mini-Bible Study

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

Wednesday 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

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Today | Wednesday | 11 January 2017 a.d./c.e.

Psalm 119 | this large psalm is divided by section each named for one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Today’s reading is Aleph, Beth, and Gimel

Happy are they that live with God;

Those that walk with God are happy and at peace;

I will follow in God’s ways;

I will observe God’s commandments;

Open my eyes that I might see;

I long for you Lord.

Ephesians 2 | Background

(Paul) We were once dead to sins and lived like sinners;

But God saved us;

God saves us through grace;

We are now created in Christ Jesus for good works.

Mark 1 | Background

Jesus is a the house of Simon and Andrew and Jesus heals the mother-in-law;

Everyone heard of this and brought their ill and they were healed;

The next day he went to a quiet place to pray, after his disciples found him, he told them that they need to teach others;

A leper came was healed and although told by Jesus to keep silent; the healed man went and told everyone so that large crowd came to Jesus and the towns were not big enough to hold them.

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Prayers and Intercessions | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer.
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.