Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Aug. 2

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: Genesis 32:22-31 Track 2 Old Testament: Isaiah 55:1-5 both will be read from the Christian Standard Bible

Track 1 Psalm 17: 1-7, 16 Track 2: Psalm 145: 8-9, 15-22 both will be read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Romans 9:1-5 read from the Douay-Rheims Bible

Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21 read from the English Standard Version Anglicised

Closing Prayer: On August 8th we celebrate the life of Dominic, Priest and Friar. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, July 26

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.

Old Testament: Genesis 29:15-28 or 1 Kings 3:5-12 both will be read from the World English Bible

Psalm 105:1-11, 45b or Psalm 128 or Psalm 119:129-136 all will be read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Romans 8:26-39 read from the Revised Standard Version Bible

Gospel: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 read from the Amplified Bible

Closing Prayer: On July 27th we remember William Reed Huntington, Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, July 19

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: Genesis 28:10-19a read from the New Living Translation Bible

Track 1 Psalm 139:1-11, 22-23 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: Isaiah 44:6-8 read from the New Living Translation Bible

Track 2 Alternative Old Testament id from the Wisdom of Solomon 12:13,16-19 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Psalm 86:11-17 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Romans 8:12-25 read from the New Revised Standard Version Bible

Gospel: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 read from the New Revised Standard Version Bible Anglicised

Closing Prayer: On July 21 Albert John Luthuli, Prophetic Witness in South Africa. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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