5 March 2016
Collects
Prayers developed from the daily readings
Saturday 5 March 2016
Morning Prayer
Psalms 15 and 16
The first psalm lists the
moral characteristics of people who are permitted in the temple. People who
tell the truth, care for their neighbour and behave ethically.
The second psalm praises
and blesses God and delights in the faithful. The psalmist commits to support
people of faith and uses personal testimony of how God has enriched his life.
Jeremiah
35
Jeremiah
is instructed to invite the Rechabites to the temple and offer them wine. The
Rechabites refuse saying their ancestor Jonadab, forbade them to drink wine, or
farm but to live in tents. They have obeyed.
God
then instructs Jeremiah to use the Rechabites as an example of a people who
listen. The Rechabites are promised a future. The people of Judah are not
listening nor answering when called.
Luke
17: 20 – 37
Jesus
talks about the Kingdom. First it is here and we can read the signs of Jesus’s
time – the miracles, the healing. We can also act to bring the Kingdom by doing
things about poverty, suffering and wars now, since the Kingdom is with us
through Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection. And the final Kingdom of God’s
glory is still to come, in God’s time and God’s place.
Collect for Morning Prayer
Celebrating World day of Prayer St George's Anglican Church Tullibigeal NSW and the ecumenical community L Osburn |
Saturday 5 March 2016
Evening Prayer
Psalm 17: 1 – 13 (14) 15
- 16
The psalmist is a
faithful and devout person who has been beset by wicked enemies. God’s
protection and care is requested. God is asked to overthrow the wickedness. The
psalmist wants relationships restored: him with God, the people with God and
with him.
Genesis
50: 7 – 26
Joseph
his brothers and a great company of Egyptians Take Jacob’s body back to Canaan.
They mourn 7 days and then bury him as requested. On return to Egypt the
brothers come to Joseph and confess and ask forgiveness. He weeps, and then
responds that he is not God and that all they did was part of God’s plan. He
promises to care for them and their families. Before he dies he asks that when
God comes to call them back, that they are to carry his bones back with them. Joseph
dies aged 110, is embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Hebrews
11: 29 – 40
The
writer here talks of more recent people who were righteous, journeyed and/ or
suffered for their faith. This is the culmination of the great list of faithful
beginning at Abel. But, the writer pauses and says, “Yet all these... Did not
receive what was promised...” What was promised was salvation. The ancients are
not perfect, we are not perfect but we all need each other as part of the great
cord of salvation made possible by Christ. We are part of that chain of
salvation that links us, through all the faithful, back to Abel.
Collect for Evening Prayer
On the long journey Near Jerilderie NSW L Osburn |
God of our salvation, you have stood
with your people from our beginnings and led those who were willing through
paths of righteousness, long journeys and suffering for your sake. Help us at
this moment to feel that connection we have by your gift of salvation to your
faithful of every age. Strengthen us in our faith and light that spark of joy
and gratitude in our hearts through Jesus Christ our saviour and redeemer and
your Holy Spirit. Amen.
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