Friday - Pentecost 13 - Proper 15
Job Léon Bonnat [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Highlights and Reflections Daily Office Readings of Book of Common Prayer (last century) Pray Today | Friday | 19 August 2016 Ps. 140 142; Ps. 141 143:1–11 (12); Job 2:1–13; Acts 9:1–9; John 6:27–40 Psalm 140 Keep me safe from the hands of the wick for I know your mercy; I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy. Job 2 Job is afflicted with sores and his wife is mad and his so called friends come to console him; they wept for him and sat for 7 days and did not say anything to him for Job's suffering was great. Acts 9 Saul/Paul gets ready again to persecute the Church called the Way; Jesus comes from heaven and asks him why?; Saul is blinded from the sight of Jesus and lead away and he did not eat or drink for three days. Jesus calls Saul into to service. John 6 The crowd asks for Jesus about what is required for t...