Almighty God,
who called your Church to bear witness
that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself:
help us to proclaim the good news of your love,
that all who hear it may be drawn to you;
through him who was lifted up on the cross,
and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deuteronomy 4.1\u20132,6\u20139<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2<\/sup>You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you. 6<\/sup>You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, \u2018Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!\u2019 7<\/sup>For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him? 8<\/sup>And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9<\/sup> But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children\u2019s children\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark 7.1\u20138,14,15,21\u201323<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2<\/sup>they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3<\/sup>(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4<\/sup>and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5<\/sup>So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, \u2018Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?\u2019 6<\/sup>He said to them, \u2018Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 14<\/sup> Then he called the crowd again and said to them, \u2018Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15<\/sup>there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.\u201921<\/sup>For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22<\/sup>adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23<\/sup>All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.\u2019<\/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\/2021-08-29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday 29th August – Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Collect Almighty God,who called your Church to bear witnessthat you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself:help us to proclaim the good news of your love,that all who hear it may be drawn to you;through him who was lifted up on the cross,and reigns with you … <\/p>\nGospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
7<\/sup> in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.\u201d
8<\/sup>You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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