Welcome to St. Luke’s Eighth 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 Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all Al with you all. desires kn known, and from you no secr crets are An And also with you. hidden. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by Alleluia! Christ is risen. Al the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. . Amen. May his grace and peace ce be with you. May he fjll our hearts with joy. O God, the protect ctor of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy, incr crease and multiply upon us your mercy, that with you as our ruler and guide, Jubilate Jubilate we may so pass through things temporal, Psalm 100 Psalm 100 that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, one God, for ever and ever. Am Amen.
Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Enter his gates with thanksgiving;go into his Lord with gladnessand come before his co courts with praise; give thanks to him and call presence with a song. upon his name. Know this: The Lord himself is God; he himself For the Lord is good;his mercy is everlasting; has made us, and we are his;we are his and his faithfulness endures from age to age people and the sheep of his pasture. Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?" Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah's Genesis 29:15-28 Genesis 29:15-28 eyes were lovely, and Rachel was graceful and beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have he had for her. Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me you deceived me?" Laban said, "This is not done in my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is our country - giving the younger before the completed." So Laban gathered together all the fjrstborn. Complete the week of this one, and we people of the place, and made a feast. But in the will give you the other also in return for serving me evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her another seven years." Jacob did so, and completed to Jacob; and he went in to her. (Laban gave his her week; then Laban gave him his daughter maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.) Rachel as a wife. When morning came, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me?
The Word of the Lord. Psalm 15:1-11, 45 Psalm 15:1-11, 45 Thanks be to God. Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his name; Remember the marvels he has done, his wonders make known his deeds among the peoples. and the judgements of his mouth, O ofgspring of Abraham his servant, O children of Jacob his Sing to him, sing praises to him, and speak k of all chosen. his marvellous works. He is the Lord our God; his judgements prevail in Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those all the world. who seek the Lord rejoice. He has always been mindful of his covenant, the Search ch for the Lord and his strength; continually promise he made for a thousand generations: seek k his face. . The covenant he made with Ab Abraham, the oath that he swore to Isaac, Which he established as a statute for Jacob, an Romans 8:26-39 Romans 8:26-39 everlasting covenant for Israel, Saying, "To you will I give the land of Canaan to be your allotted inheritance ce." ." Hallelujah!
And those whom he predestined he also called; Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we and those whom he called he also justifjed; and do not know how to pray as we ought, but that those whom he justifjed he also glorifjed. What then very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. are we to say about these things? If God is for us, And God, who searches the heart, knows what is who is against us? He who did not withhold his own the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with for the saints according to the will of God. We know him also give us everything else? Who will bring any that all things work together for good for those who charge against God's elect? It is God who justifjes. love God, who are called according to his purpose. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will he might be the fjrstborn within a large family. separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through The Word of the Lord. him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither Thanks be to God. death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Gospel Reading Gospel Reading The Lord be with you. And also with you. An Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ According to Matthew Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a Jesus put before them another parable: "The fjeld, which someone found and hid; then in his joy kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that he goes and sells all that he has and buys that someone took and sowed in his fjeld; it is the fjeld. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is merchant in search of fjne pearls; on fjnding one the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he the birds of the air come and make nests in its had and bought it. Again, the kingdom of heaven is branches." He told them another parable: "The like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took fjsh of every kind; when it was full, they drew it and mixed in with three measures of fmour until all of ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets it was leavened. but threw out the bad. Gospel Reading Gospel Reading So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the furnace of fjre, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have you The Gospel of Christ understood all this?" They answered, "Yes." And he Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old." Creed Creed Let us confess our faith, as we say, I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. cr I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He sufg fgered under Pontius Pilate, was cr cruci cifj fjed, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead.
Creed Creed On the third day he rose again. . He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. . He will come again to judge the living and the Prayers of the People Prayers of the People dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. . Am Amen. Dear friends in Christ,God is steadfast in love and infjnite in mercy;he welcomes sinnersand invites Confession & Absolution Confession & Absolution them to his table.Let us confess our sins,confjdent in God’s forgiveness. Most merci ciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. . Almighty God have mercy upon you, pardon and We have not loved you with our whole heart; we deliver you from all your sins, confjrm and have not loved our neighbours as ourselves. . We strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in are truly sorry and we humbly repent. . For the eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us Amen. Am and forgive us, that we may delight in your will,and walk k in your ways,to the glory of your name. . Amen.
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