8 November 2016
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Saturday 8 November
2014
Morning
Prayer
Psalms 20 and 21: 1 – 7 (8 – 13)
The first psalm begins as a bidding prayer asking that
the King’s prayers be heard and answered. God is the one in whom the community
trusts, not men or chariots. The second psalm takes this theme of the power
being with God and the King’s dependence on God in all things.
Jonah 2
Jonah having been cast into the sea and now in the
belly of the fish prays to God. Written in the text is his prayer of
thanksgiving for his deliverance. The Lord speaks to the fish and it spews Jonah
out on to dry land.
Matthew 23: 1 – 15
Jesus tells the crowd that the scribes and Pharisees
know their Mosaic Law and have their position because of it. The people are to
listen to them and learn but not follow all the minute interpretations that tie
up people in knots. Instead the people are to listen and pray and take their
instruction from the Messiah. Jesus laments the scribes and Pharisees whose
behaviour effectively does the opposite of their intentions – it harms widows
instead of caring for them and blocks from kingdom of heaven the Pharisees and
those who follow them.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
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Saturday 8
November 2014
Evening
Prayer
Psalms 24 and 26
The Lord of hosts is the King of glory, is the focus
of this psalm. The world and everything in it is God’s. Those who aspire to
heaven are the pure and righteous.
The second psalm is from a person who is faithful and
has integrity and who has been falsely accused. The psalm asks God to look
inside and to bring redemption.
Bel and the Dragon 23 – 42
The Babylonians also have a dragon that they worship.
The king challenges Daniel saying that he cannot deny that the dragon is alive
– a living god. Daniel promises to kill the dragon without sword or club. He
feed the creature pitch, fat and hair. The creature bursts open and people can
see it is just a creature not a god.
The Babylonians are angry and accuse the king of
becoming Jew. They threaten the king and his household unless he hands over
Daniel. They put Daniel in a den of lions.
Meanwhile in Judea, Habakkuk a prophet makes a stew
and is visited by an angel telling him to feed the stew to Daniel in the lion’s
den. Habakkuk admits he does not know where that is so the angel takes him
there. Daniel is fed. The king comes on the seventh day to the lion’s den and
finds Daniel alive. He releases Daniel, praises God and has those who
challenged him put into the den where they all perish.
Revelation
3: 7 – 13
John is
to write to the church in Philadelphia. Jesus knows they are small and faithful
and struggling with a difficult synagogue. As a result of the Philadelphians’
patient endurance they will be protected in the trials to come. They are to
hold fast to what they have and by doing so be conquerors, named for God and
their city named for the new Jerusalem.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
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| The stream in the dark gully The Abbey Benedictine Community Jamberoo NSW L Osburn |
Holy and almighty God, you provide redemption, deliverance
and steadfast love to your faithful people everywhere especially those facing distress,
threats to their lives and challenges to their beliefs. Hear the prayers of the
faithful, deliver them so that your people may hold fast in their beliefs and
be conquerors by your grace through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
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