Welcome to St. Luke’s Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Welcome & Prayer Welcome & Prayer The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be Alm lmig ighty God, to you all ll hearts are open, all ll with you all. desir ires known, and from you no secrets are And als lso wit ith you. hid idden. Cle leanse the thoughts of our r heart rts by Alleluia! Christ is risen. the in inspir iratio ion of your r Holy ly Spirit irit, that we may The Lord is is ris risen in indeed. Alle llelu luia ia! perf rfectly ly lo love you, and wort rthily ily magnif ify your r holy ly name; through Chris rist our r Lord. Amen. May his grace and peace be with you. May he fj fjll ll our r hearts wit ith joy. Alm lmig ighty God, you have buil ilt your r Church on the foundatio ion of the apostle les and prophets, Jesus Chris rist him imself lf bein ing the chie ief corn rnerstone. Venite Venite Join in us together r in in unit ity of spirit irit by their ir teachin ing that we may become a holy ly temple le, Psalm 95:1-7 Psalm 95:1-7 acceptable le to you; through Jesus Chris rist our r Lord, who liv lives and reig igns wit ith you and the Holy ly Spirit irit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
For r the Lord is is a great God, Come, le let us sin ing to the Lord; and a great kin ing above all ll gods. le let us shout for r joy to the rock of our r salv lvatio ion. In In his is hand are the cavern rns of the earth, and Let us come before his is presence wit ith the heig ights of the hills ills are his is als lso. thanksgiv ivin ing and rais ise a lo loud shout to him im The sea is is his for r he made it it, and his is hands wit ith psalm lms. have mould lded the dry ry la land. Come, le let us bow down, and bend the knee, and kneel l before the Lord our maker. Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 For r he is is our r God,and we are the people le of his is pasture and the sheep of his hand. Oh, that today we would ld heark rken to his is voic ice! Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your On the sixth day, when they prepare what they God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on of the house of slavery; you shall have no other other days." So Moses and Aaron said to all the gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an Israelites, "In the evening you shall know that it was idol, whether in the form of anything that is in the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or and in the morning you shall see the glory of the that is in the water under the earth. You shall not Lord, because he has heard your complaining make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your against the Lord. For what are we, that you God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who complain against us?" And Moses said, "When the misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and your keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all fjll of bread in the morning, because the Lord has your work. heard the complaining that you utter against him
Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will not bear false witness against your neighbour. You listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall die." Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; not covet your neighbour's wife, or male or female for God has come only to test you and to put the slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to fear of him upon you so that you do not sin." neighbour. When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, The Word of the Lord. PSALM 105:1-6, 37-45 PSALM 105:1-6, 37-45 Thanks be to God. In the deep has he set a pavilion for the sun; it The heavens declare the glory of God, and the comes forth like a bridegroom out of his fjrmament shows his handiwork. chamber; it rejoices like a champion to run its course. One day tells lls it its tale le to another, and one nig ight imparts knowle im ledge to another. It goes forth from the utterm It rmost edge of the heavens and ru runs about to the end of it it again in; Although they have no words or language, and nothin ing is is hid idden from it its burn rnin ing heat. their voices are not heard, The law of the Lord is perfect and revives the Their ir sound has gone out in into all ll la lands, and their ir soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure and gives message to the ends of the world rld. wisdom to the innocent.
The statutes of the Lord are just and rejoic ice the By them also is your servant enlightened, and in heart rt; the commandment of the Lord is is cle lear r keeping them there is great reward. and giv ives lig light to the eyes. Who can tell ll how often he ofg fgends? cle leanse me The fear of the Lord is clean and endures for from my secret fault lts. ever; the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Above all, keep your servant from presumptuous sins; let them not get dominion over me; then More to be desir ired are they than gold ld, more shall I be whole and sound, and innocent of a than much fj fjne gold ld, sweeter r far r than honey, great ofgence. than honey in in the comb. Let the words of my mouth and the medit itatio ion of Philippians 3:4B-14 Philippians 3:4B-14 my heart rt be acceptable le in in your r sig ight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. If anyone has reason to be confjdent in the fmesh, I in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a not having a righteousness of my own that comes member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of from the law, but one that comes through faith in Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; want to know Christ and the power of his as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet resurrection and the sharing of his sufgerings by whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I everything as loss because of the surpassing value have already obtained this or have already of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, sufgered the loss of all things, and I regard them as because Christ Jesus has made me his own. rubbish,
Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies The Word of the Lord. behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I Thanks be to God. press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. Gospel Reading Gospel Reading The Lord be with you. And als lso wit ith you. Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ According to Matthew Glo lory to you, Lord Jesus Chris rist. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to Jesus said, "Listen to another parable. There was a themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence get his inheritance.' So they seized him, threw him around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now when the watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to to another country. When the harvest time had those tenants?" They said to him, "He will put those come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect wretches to a miserable death, and lease the his produce. But the tenants seized his slaves and vineyard to other tenants who will give him the beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again produce at the harvest time." Jesus said to them, he sent other slaves, more than the fjrst; and they "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone treated them in the same way. Finally he sent his that the builders rejected has become the son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing,
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