Saturday after Epiphany 2

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Opening Sentence
Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
+ Isaiah 60:3

Mood music | Ashokan Farewell | Jay Ungar and Molly Mason | Click here

Cristo y la Samaritana

Alonzo Cano [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Read | Saturday | 23 January 2016 |
Psalm 30  - Literary type | Individual Thanksgiving | click here.
To you, O Lord, I cried,
    and to the Lord I made supplication:  ...


11 You have turned my mourning into dancing;
    you have taken off my sackcloth
    and clothed me with joy,
12 so that my soul may praise you and not be silent.
    O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.

Singing praise to God for healing from an illness near death.
Genesis 12/13 - Strange story of famine, Egypt, Abraham, Sarah as brother and sister to avoid Abe being killed for the beauty of Sarah, God did not like at all; Pharaoh asks what have you done to me and releases them.
Hebrews 7 - God made an oath to us that Jesus would be priest forever; For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

John 4 - The disciples come back to see Jesus talking to a woman who has left to go to the village; disciples is concerned about Jesus eating - his food is from else where; the woman evangelizes her town and they come and see Jesus for themselves, and believe for themselves.
Today: How is Jesus ministering to you today as priest?

Sources | Morning Office in Audio | Click here
Biblegateway.com | Click here
New Oxford Annotated Bible | Click here

Background |
Genesis - Click here
Hebrews - Click here

Next |  Sunday | 24 January 2016 | Third Sunday after Epiphany
Ps. 63:1–8 (9–11) Ps. 98; Ps. 103; Gen. 13:2–18; Gal. 2:1–10; Mark 7:31–37
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For Social Justice

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


Source | Book of Common Prayer | Mission St Clare | Click here

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