Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, July 22, 2018, Track 1

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.

Old Testament: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a read from the The message Bible

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

Epistle: Ephesians 2:11-22 read from the Modern English Version Bible

Gospel: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 read from the New American Standard Bible

Closing Prayer: On July 26th we remember Charles Raymond Barnes, Episcopal Priest and martyr. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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