Wednesday - Pentecost 18 - Proper 22

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Highlights & Mini-Bible Study

Book of Common Prayer | Daily Office Readings

Days of Pentecost

We give you thanks, O God, we give you thanks, calling upon your Name and declaring all your wonderful deeds. Psalm 75:1 | Enriching Our Worship 1, p.19

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Readings

Today | Wednesday | 10 October 2017

Ps. 119:145–176; Ps. 128, 129, 130; 2 Kings 22:14—23:3; 1 Cor. 11:23–34; Matt. 9:9–17

Psalm 119 | Free Composition | Background

Give me life;
All your commandments are true;

Plead my cause and give me life;

I study your ways daily;

I keep your Word.

I love you and your commandments, have mercy on me.

1 Corinthians 11 | Background

Paul - Institution of Lord’s Supper; examine yourself and take it properly.

Matthew 9 | Background

Jesus - Calls Matthew a tax collector who invites him to his house; the religious establishment mummer that he is eating with the unclean; Jesus says he came for sinners and the sick - others don’t need a physician. He then is asked about his disciples fasting - their day will come.

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Prayers and Intercessions | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer
Today | Pentecost 18 - Proper 22

Collect for the Day
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, forever and ever. Amen.

For Mission

Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hardwood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your Name. Amen

A Collect for Guidance

Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.