Thursday - Epiphany 6

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Highlights & Mini-Bible Study

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

Week after the 6th Sunday of Epiphany

I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth. Isaiah 49:6b  BCP p. 76

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Readings

Today | Thursday | 16 February 2017

Ps. 105:1–22; Ps. 105:23–45; Isa. 65:1–12; 1 Tim. 4:1–16; Mark 12:13–27

Psalm 105 | Hymn - Background

Give thanks and make known God’s deeds;

Seek the Lord always;

God keeps God’s promises;

• Review of salvation history

1 Timothy 4 | Background

The Spirit predicts that some will fall away;

Everything created is God for it was made holy by God;

Be godly; We hope in a living God;

Be about love and teach them; devote yourself to them.

Mark 12 | Background

Jesus answering a test by some religious leaders; render to the government what is the government and to God what is God; there is a resurrection and the raised will be a new creation not needing marriage.

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Prayers and Intercessions | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer.
Today | Collect of the Day | Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

O God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because in our weakness we can do nothing good without you, give us the help of your grace, that in keeping your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

For Mission

Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.