Sunday's Lectionary

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 The Lexham English Bible

The Collect: Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; 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: Ruth 1:1-18

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 146

Track 2 Old Testament: Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 119:1-8

The Epistle: Hebrews 9:11-14

Gospel: Mark 12:28-34On November 3 we celebrate the life of Richard Hooker, Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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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 the International Children’s Bible

The Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; 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: Job 42:1-6, 10-17

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22)

Track 2 Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:7-9

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 126

Epistle: Hebrews 7:23-28

Gospel: Mark 10:46-52

Closing Prayer: On October 30 we celebrate the life of John Wyclif, Priest and Prophetic Witness. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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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 the Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Track 1 Old Testament: Job 1:1; 2:1-10

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 26

Track 2 Old Testament: Genesis 2:18-24

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 8

Epistle: Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

Gospel: Mark 10:2-16

On October 8 we celebrate the life of William Dwight Porter Bliss, Priest, and

Richard Theodore Ely, Economist. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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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 the God’s Word Bible

The Collect: O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; 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: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 124

Track 2 Old Testament: Numbers 11:4-6,10-16,24-29

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 19:7-14

Epistle: James 5:13-20

Gospel: Mark 9:38-50

On September 30 we celebrate the life of Jerome Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses

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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 The English Standard Version Anglicised

The Collect: Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; 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: Proverbs 31:10-31

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 1

Track 2 Old Testament: Wisdom of Solomon 1:16-2:1, 12-22

Read from The New Revised Standard Version Bible

Track 2 Old Testament: Jeremiah 11:18-20

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 54

Epistle: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a

Gospel: Mark 9:30-37

On September 26 we celebrate the life of Wilson Carlile Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses

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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 the Revised Standard Version Bible.

The Collect: Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Track 1 Old Testament: 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 111

Track 2 Old Testament: Proverbs 9:1-6

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 34:9-14

Epistle: Ephesians 5:15-20

Gospel: John 6:51-58

On August 18 we celebrate the life of Artemisia Bowden, Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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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 the Easy to Read Bible

The Collect: Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; 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 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

Track 1 Psalm 130

Track 2 Old Testament: Old Testament: 1 Kings 19:4-8

Track 2 Psalm: Psalm 34:1-8

The Epistle: Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Gospel: John 6:35, 41-51

On August 12 we celebrate the life of Florence Nightingale

Nurse, Social Reformer. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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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 The World English Bible

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: 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a

Track 1 Psalm Psalm 51:1-13

Track 2 Old Testament: Exodus 16:2-4,9-15

Track 2 Psalm Psalm 78:23-29

Epistle: Ephesians 4: 1 – 16

Gospel: John 6:24-36

Closing Prayer: On August 7 we celebrate the life of John Mason Neale, Priest. Read from A Great Cloud of Witnesses.

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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 the New Revised Standard Version Bible Anglicized

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

Track 1 Psalm: Psalm 14

Track 2 Old Testament: 2 Kings 4:42-44

Track 2 Psalm: 145:10-19

Epistle: Ephesians 3:14-21

Gospel: John 6:1-21

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 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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