Collect:
Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry
with the bread of his life
and the word of his kingdom.
Renew your people with your heavenly grace,
and in all our weakness
sustain us by your true and living bread,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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| 1st 1st Reading |
Hosea 11:1-11 |
1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out
of Egypt I called my son.
2 The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept
sacrificing to the Baals, and offering incense to idols.
3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms;
but they did not know that I healed them.
4 I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to
them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.
5 They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their
king, because they have refused to return to me.
6 The sword rages in their cities, it consumes their oracle-priests, and
devours because of their schemes.
7 My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they
call, but he does not raise them up at all.
8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How
can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
9 I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim;
for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
10 They shall go after the Lord, who roars like a lion; when he roars,
his children shall come trembling from the west.
11 They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from
the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes, says the Lord.
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| 1st Psalm (or
Canticle) |
Psalm 107:1-9, 43 |
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, *
and his mercy endures
for ever.
2 Let all those whom the Lord has redeemed proclaim *
that he redeemed them
from the hand of the foe.
3 He gathered them out of the lands; *
from the east and from
the west, from the north and from the south.
4 Some wandered in desert wastes; *
they found no way to a
city where they might dwell.
5 They were hungry and thirsty; *
their spirits
languished within them.
6 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and he delivered them
from their distress.
7 He put their feet on a straight path *
to go to a city where
they might dwell.
8 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercy *
and the wonders he does
for his children.
9 For he satisfies the thirsty *
and fills the hungry
with good things.
43 Whoever is wise will ponder these things, *
and consider well the
mercies of the Lord.
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God, the divine seeker, you are light to the lost, bread to the hungry, deliverance to the
captive, healing to the sick, eternal vision to the dying, and harbour to every soul in
peril. Gather the wanderers from every corner of the world into the community of your
mercy and grace, that we may eternally praise you for our salvation in Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen. |
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| 2nd 2nd Reading |
Colossians 3:1-11 |
1 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek
the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on
earth,
3 for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be
revealed with him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication,
impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are
disobedient.
7 These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that
life.
8 But now you must get rid of all such things - anger, wrath, malice,
slander, and abusive language from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old
self with its practices
10 and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed
in knowledge according to the image of its creator.
11 In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and
uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!
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| The Gospel |
Luke 12:13-21 |
13 Someone in the crowd said to him,
‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’
14 But he said to him, ‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or
arbitrator over you?’
15 And he said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all
kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of
possessions.’
16 Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced
abundantly.
17 And he thought to himself, "What should I do, for I have no
place to store my crops?"
18 Then he said, "I will do this: I will pull down my barns and
build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for
many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry."
20 But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your life is
being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?"
21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not
rich towards God.’
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