Lord, you have taught us
that all our doings without love are nothing worth:
send your Holy Spirit
and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtues,
without which whoever lives is counted dead before you.
Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ\u2019s sake,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeremiah 20.7\u201313<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7<\/sup> O Lord, you have enticed me, 13<\/sup> Sing to the Lord; Matthew 10.24\u201339<\/p>\n\n\n\n 24<\/sup> \u2018A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; 25<\/sup>it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26<\/sup> \u2018So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. 27<\/sup>What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. 28<\/sup>Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.29<\/sup>Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unperceived by your Father. 30<\/sup>And even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31<\/sup>So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 32<\/sup> \u2018Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; 33<\/sup>but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 34<\/sup> \u2018Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. All collects and readings appointed for this day as well as the orders of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer can be found at almanac.oremus.org\/2020-06-21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday 21st June – 2nd Sunday after Trinity Collect Lord, you have taught usthat all our doings without love are nothing worth:send your Holy Spiritand pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love,the true bond of peace and of all virtues,without which whoever lives is counted dead before you.Grant this for your only … <\/p>\n
and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughing-stock all day long;
everyone mocks me.
8<\/sup> For whenever I speak, I must cry out,
I must shout, \u2018Violence and destruction!\u2019
For the word of the Lord has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.
9<\/sup> If I say, \u2018I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name\u2019,
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
10<\/sup> For I hear many whispering:
\u2018Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!\u2019
All my close friends
are watching for me to stumble.
\u2018Perhaps he can be enticed,
and we can prevail against him,
and take our revenge on him.\u2019
11<\/sup> But the Lord is with me like a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble,
and they will not prevail.
They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonour
will never be forgotten.
12<\/sup> O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous,
you see the heart and the mind;
let me see your retribution upon them,
for to you I have committed my cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
praise the Lord!
For he has delivered the life of the needy
from the hands of evildoers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
35<\/sup> For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36<\/sup> and one\u2019s foes will be members of one\u2019s own household.
37<\/sup>Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38<\/sup>and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39<\/sup>Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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