24 May 2015
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Sunday 24
May 2015 Pentecost or Whitsunday
Morning
Prayer
In Christ’s Spirit we are:
set free from the law of sin and death;
led by the Spirit of God and made children of God so
that we may call God “Abba” (daddy);
supported by the Spirit as heirs of God;
confident that whatever our suffering now we will be
glorified with God in the hereafter and,
assured that the glory will overwrite any suffering
now.
For the whole of creation is waiting for us to be
revealed to God.
John 14:
15 – 26
If we love Christ we will receive the Advocate, the
spirit of truth. Jesus tells the disciples that he is leaving and going to the
Father and that he is alive and in the disciples and they in him. God will love
those who keep Jesus’s commandments and Jesus will be revealed to them. God
with Christ will make their home in them.
The Advocate, the Holy Spirit will teach us and remind
us what Jesus said.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
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| Gum Blossom Denmark WA 2014 L Osburn |
Holy wonderful God, you love us with a love that has no end.
Help us today to say and sing in a myriad of ways “I love you and that’s all I truly
know”, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Sunday 24
May 2015 Pentecost or Whitsunday
Evening
Prayer
Ezekiel 36: 22 – 28
God tells Ezekiel to say, that it is not for the sake of
the people that he will restore them but for his own name, which has been so
profaned. God will display holiness and love: bring the people home; cleanse
them internally and from all their connections to idols. God will give the
people a new spirit: give them hearts of flesh and take away their hearts of
stone. Then they will be God’s people and God will be their god.
Psalm 103: 13 – 22
As parents have compassion for their children so God
has compassion for us. Our lives are fleeting and short like a flower or like
grass.
God’s steadfast love is eternal. God is eternal and
mighty. “Bless the Lord, O my soul” (V.22).
1 Corinthians 12: 1 – 13
Paul explains the spiritual gifts. The Spirit of God
within would never curse Jesus but will proclaim Jesus Lord. There is only one
Spirit and many gifts and many out-workings of that Spirit but it is God alone
who activates the Spirit in people for the good of all. Some will speak wisely
and others will share knowledge. Some will have great faith, do miracles,
prophecy, some speak in tongues and others interpret that speech. Whatever the
gifts and their out-workings we are united as one body in Christ through
baptism and all have the same spirit within.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
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| Gum Blossom The Deanery Garden Griffith NSW 2014 L Osburn |
Holy Lord,
we praise you and thank you for loving us because you want to. You free us because
you want to. You give us gifts because you want to. Help us to hear and feel the
wonder and your love. Help us acknowledge that you already know all about us
and still you have compassion. You still wash us clean and free us from our
personal and public idols so that we may be your children and live our lives
with your Spirit for the good of all through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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