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The Collect: Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Track 1 Old Testament: 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a read from World English Bible

Track 1 Psalm 51:1-13 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: Exodus 16:2-4,9-15 read from the World English Bible

Track 2 Psalm 78:23-29 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Ephesians 4:1-16 Easy to Read Version Bible

Gospel: John 6:24-35 read from The Revised Standard Version Bible

Closing Prayer: On August 3rd we celebrate the life of George Freeman Bragg, Jr. Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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The Collect:O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Track 1 Old Testament: 2 Samuel 11:1-15 read from the New Living Translation

Track 1 Psalm 14 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: 2 Kings 4:42-44 read from the New Living Translation

Track 2 Psalm: 145:10-19 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Ephesians 3:14-21 read from the New Revised Standard Version Bible

Gospel: John 6:1-21 read from the New Revised Standard Version Anglicized

Closing Prayer: On July 29 we celebrate the First Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in The Episcopal Church. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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I am traveling this week and unable to do the recordings. I will be back next week.

The Collect: Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Track 1 Old Testament: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a read from the New American Standard Bible

Track 1 Psalm 89:20-37 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: Jeremiah 23:1-6 read from the New American Standard Bible

Track 2 Psalm 23 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Ephesians 2:11-22 read from the New Century Version Bible

Gospel: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 read from the New International Version Bible

Closing Prayer: On July 20 we celebrate the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1902; Amelia Bloomer, 1894; Sojourner Truth, 1883; and Harriet Ross Tubman, 1913. Liberators and Prophets read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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