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The collect and readings - as well as the Bishop's sermon, video and other resources - for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity (20 August A.D. 2017).

The Collect for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity

Let thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP, p. 233)

Epistle - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. (ESV)

Psalm 137:1-6

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, / when we remembered thee, O Sion.

As for our harps, we hanged them up / upon the trees that are therein.

For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and they that plundered us a melody: /  'Sing us one of the songs of Sion.'

How shall we sing the Lord's song / in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, / let my right hand forget her cunning. Alleluia! Alleluia!

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; / yea if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth. Alleluia!

Gospel - Luke 19:41-47

And when [Jesus] drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers." And he was teaching daily in the temple. (ESV)

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Artwork: Enrique Simonet, Flevit super illam (He wept over it), 1892. Oil on canvas, Museum of Málaga.

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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