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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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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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The Collect:O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through 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 6:1-5, 12b-19 read from the Lexham English Bible

Track 1 Psalm 24 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: Amos 7:7-15 read from the Lexham English Bible

Track 2 Psalm 85:8-13 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

The Epistle: Ephesians 1:3-14 read from the Message

The Gospel: Mark 6:14-29 read from the Modern English Version Bible

Closing Prayer: On July 12 we celebrate the life of Nathan Söderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala and Ecumenist. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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