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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: Hosea 11:1-11 read from the New Revised Standard Version Bible

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 107:1-9, 43 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 read from the New Revised Standard Version Bible

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 49:1-11 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Colossians 3:1-11 read from the New Revised Standard Version Bible Anglicized

Gospel: Luke 12:13-21 read from the World English Bible

Closing prayer: On August 3 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: Hosea 1:2-10 read from the New Century Version Bible

Track 1 Psalm 85 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Old Testament: Genesis 18:20-32 read from the New Century Version Bible

Track 2 Psalm 138 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19) read from the New International Version Bible

Gospel: Luke 11:1-13 read from the New Living Translation

Closing Prayer: On July 27 we celebrate the life of William Reed Huntington, Priest. 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: Amos 8:1-12 read from the Message

Track 2 Old Testament: Genesis 18:1-10a read from the Message

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 52 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 15 read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer

Epistle: Colossians 1:15-28 read from the Modern English Version Bible

Gospel: Luke 10:38-42 read from the New American Standard Bible

Closing Prayer: On July 18 we celebrate the life of Bartolomé de las Casas, Friar and Missionary to the Indies. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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