25 September 2016
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Sunday 25 September
2016
Morning Prayer
Psalm
96
Sing
praise to the Lord! Ascribe to God the glory of creation. Let everything, the
heavens, the trees, everything sing and praise God. Worship the Lord in the
beauty of his holiness. For the Lord comes to judge the earth in righteousness
and truth.
Luke
20: 19 – 26
The
chief priests and scribes set spies to watch Jesus. They pretend to be honest
then ask should taxes be paid to Caesar. Jesus asks to see a denarius (a coin).
He takes the coin and asks whose portrait and whose inscription is on the coin?
Jesus says, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
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Morning Prayer
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Sunday 25
September 2016
Evening
Prayer
Jeremiah 36: 1 – 4, 14b –
24 and 32
On God’s instruction,
Jeremiah dictates all the prophesies against Judah to Baruch, his secretary who
writes them on a single scroll.
He is then asked to read
it again to officials at the king’s house in the secretary’s chamber. They ask
for the scroll and tell him to go back to Jeremiah and for both of them to
hide.
The scroll with all
Jeremiah’s prophecies is left in the king’s secretary’s chambers while the
secretary and officials go to King Jehoiakim and report. The king orders the
scroll be brought to him and read. As the lines are read he has them cut from
the scroll and thrown into the fire. The writing and its burning perturbs
neither the King nor the people close to him.
Jeremiah, in hiding again
dictates the prophesies to Baruch to rewrite the scroll.
Psalm 146
This psalm is one of praise
to God who is trustworthy – more than princes: more than mortals. Our God sets
prisoners free and cares for orphans and widows.
1 Timothy 4
Paul warns against false
teaching and encourages Timothy, though he is young, to be an example by
constantly and publicly reading the scriptures, exhorting and teaching people
in the faith.
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Evening Prayer
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Holy and compassionate God you are trustworthy and your word is true.
Strengthen us to be faithful and constant in the days to come in reading the
scriptures, encouraging each other, caring for prisoners and people who are in
strife so that by our lives we teach how to live as Christians in this complex
and contested world in the power of your Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ your
Son. Amen.
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