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
Ezekiel 17.22\u201324<\/p>\n\n\n\n
22<\/sup> Thus says the Lord God: Mark 4.26\u201334<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26<\/sup> He also said, \u2018The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27<\/sup>and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28<\/sup>The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29<\/sup>But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n 30<\/sup> He also said, \u2018With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 31<\/sup>It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32<\/sup>yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n 33<\/sup>\u00a0With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34<\/sup>he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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\/2021-06-13<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday 13th June – Second 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
I myself will take a sprig
from the lofty top of a cedar;
I will set it out.
I will break off a tender one
from the topmost of its young twigs;
I myself will plant it
on a high and lofty mountain.
23<\/sup> On the mountain height of Israel
I will plant it,
in order that it may produce boughs and bear fruit,
and become a noble cedar.
Under it every kind of bird will live;
in the shade of its branches will nest
winged creatures of every kind.
24<\/sup> All the trees of the field shall know
that I am the Lord.
I bring low the high tree,
I make high the low tree;
I dry up the green tree
and make the dry tree flourish.
I the Lord have spoken;
I will accomplish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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