I am on vacation this week, July 13-19. Worship this Sunday July 19, will be with the Bishop at 9:00. Information for that service can be found at the Diocesan website: https://www.nhepiscopal.org/worship-liturgy.
Caroline
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
July 12th, Proper 10, Year A
Collect of the Day We center ourselves for worship in prayer.
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.
First Lesson Genesis
28:10-19a
God
comes to Jacob in a dream and, in a vision of a ladder between earth and heaven,
renews with Jacob the promise made to his grandfather Abraham. Jacob will become the father of a great
nation. Jacob awakes astonished at God’s
self-revelation and sets up a sacred pillar, calling the place “Bethel,” a site
which will one day become an important northern shrine city.
Psalm 139: 1-12, 23-24
With wonderful
wisdom God alone perceives the heights and depths of life.
The
Second Lesson Romans 8:12-25
For Paul,
true spirituality means that we experience the reality of the Spirit, which
enables us to pray as God’s children, keeps us in solidarity with creation, and
gives us unseen hope that God will liberate us and creation from bondage to
death and decay.
The Gospel Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
The gospel is the
parable of the wheat and the weeds, for which Jesus then provides an
explanation. The story points to a
mystery: why there is both good and evil in life. The parable may at one time have been used to
suggest that it is not so easy for humans to know what is good and what is bad
from the divine perspective. In a
strangely mixed world one must carry on with patience. The allegorical
explanation emphasizes the judgment which will take place in the end at the
hands of the Son of Man.
For those who are homebound: Joyce Gendron, Marge Hagerup, Elizabeth Pease, Susannah Keith, Alida, Dylan, Brian & Sara Kelley, Bob Wallace, Carl Mamigonian, Elizabeth Wiesner, Judy Grace, Audrey Berry.
For our First Nation people and those in this country who are living in impoverished areas of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans and the inner city areas populated by some of our poorest citizens.
For all those who are on the front lines serving communities during these difficult times.
Next Food Pantry: July 22
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