Wednesday - Pentecost 19 - Proper 21

Highlights

Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication

Week after the 19th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 21

Pray

Today | Ps. 101 109:1–4 (5–19) 20–30; Ps. 119:121–144; Hosea 4:11–19; Acts 21:15–26; Luke 5:27–39

Psalm 101

I will love mercy and justice, O Lord, as I seek you;

I hate those that do evil;

I will destroy them.

Acts 21

Paul and his entourage arrived in Cypress and then Jerusalem; he met with the brothers who advised him to be viable in the Temple in observing the Jewish tradition; Paul took his group and went through purification and sacrificial observance in the Temple.

Luke 5

Jesus calls Levi as a disciple;

Levi throws a party in celebration:

Religious leaders ask why Jesus hangs with sinners;

Jesus - the sick are in need of a physician, not the well;

He tells stories of new wine and wineskins?

What is the “new wine” in you?

Tomorrow | Ps. 8 148; Job 38:1–7; Hebrews 1:1–14; Ps. 34 150 or Ps. 104; Mark 13:21–27

Collect: Proper 20

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things which are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Mission St Clare

Note: the long season of Pentecost on the Church calendar gives us practical advice by hearing a teaching of Jesus.