The Collect and Psalm will be read from The Episcopal Church Book of Common Pray

The Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel will be read from The Modern English Version Bible

The Collect: O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing: Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts your greatest gift, which is love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is accounted dead before you. Grant this for the sake of your only Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Old Testament: Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Psalm: Psalm 37:1-12, 41-42

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15:35-38,42-50

Gospel: Luke 6:27-38

On February 28 we celebrate the lives of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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