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Readings for
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20
September 19, 2010
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Grant, we beseech thee, merciful
God, that thy Church, being gathered together in unity by thy Holy
Spirit, may manifest thy power among all peoples, to the glory of thy
Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee
and the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Contemporary
Grant, O merciful God, that your
Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show
forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. |
| Jeremiah 1:4-10
The word of the LORD came to me
saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you
were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the
nations." Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Truly I do not know how
to speak, for I am only a boy." But the LORD said to me, "Do
not say, 'I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you,
and you shall speak whatever I command you, Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD." Then the LORD put
out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Now I
have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations
and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to
overthrow, to build and to plant." |
Psalm 71:1-6
In te, Domine, speravi
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In you, O LORD, have I
taken refuge; *
let me never be ashamed.
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In your righteousness,
deliver me and set me free; *
incline your ear to me and save me.
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Be my strong rock, a castle
to keep me safe; *
you are my crag and my stronghold.
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Deliver me, my God, from
the hand of the wicked, *
from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.
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For you are my hope, O Lord
GOD, *
my confidence since I was young.
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I have been sustained by
you ever since I was born;
from my mother's womb you have been my strength; *
my praise shall be always of you.
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Hebrews 12:18-29
You have not come to something
that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a
tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the
hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not
endure the order that was given, "If even an animal touches the
mountain, it shall be stoned to death." Indeed, so terrifying was the
sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear.") But you have come
to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the
firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to
the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a
new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than
the blood of Abel. See that you do not refuse
the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused the
one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject
the one who warns from heaven! At that time his voice shook the earth; but
now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth
but also the heaven." This phrase, "Yet once more,"
indicates the removal of what is shaken-- that is, created things-- so
that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a
kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to
God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a
consuming fire. |
Luke 13:10-17
Now he was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a
spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was
quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over
and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment." When he
laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began
praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had
cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days
on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not
on the sabbath day." But the Lord answered him and said, "You
hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey
from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this
woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be
set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?" When he said this,
all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at
all the wonderful things that he was doing. |
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