Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, July 21

The Collect and Psalms will be read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

The Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel will be read from New Revised Standard Version Bible

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

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 89:20-37

Track 2 Old Testament: Jeremiah 23:1-6

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 23

Epistle: Ephesians 2:11-22

Gospel: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

On July 24 we celebrate the life of Thomas à Kempis, Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses

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