Saturday, July 30, 2022

The Sunday Lectionary for Readings Sunday, July 31, 2022 - Eight Sunday after Pentecost

The Parable of the Rich Fool by Rembrandt, 1627
Luke 12:13-21

The Sunday Lectionary Readings
Sunday, July 31, 2022 - Eight Sunday after Pentecost
 Hosea 11:1-11; Psalm 107:1-9, 43;Colossians 3:1-11;
Luke 12:13-213
[Lectionary/Ordinary 18, Proper 13]
(Revised Common Lectionary Year C)

Opening Prayer


As We Gather Here
(Words for the above video)
As we gather here in the harbour of your safety
We thank you for fellowship and family.

We ask that you will strengthen us, restore us and inspire us with your love.
Lord, would fill us with your peace
So that as we journey onwards
We would pour out your love and grace to others.
We ask that our souls would catch the wind of your spirit
so that we would take your promises to all the earth.

Amen.

The Collect (Book of Common Prayers)
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Call to Confession
This week we remember the events of August 6 and 9, 1945: the bombing of  Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In the decades since, the world has lived with the threat of nuclear annihilation and many have worked and struggled for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

O God, like a father who teaches his child to walk, like a mother who feeds and heals her children, You desire to nourish all people and rescue them from injustice. You call us into this work of justice-making and care. Yet we follow other paths; we make choices that lead to violence and destruction.

Meet us here and teach us how to put aside all temptations that lead to violence, from the smallest to the most global. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon
The apostle Paul calls us to seek the things that are above and find new life revealed in Christ. As we have been called by Christ, we put away the things that lead to death and Christ’s life is revealed in us. Friends, believe the Good News of the gospel: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.


First Reading
Hosea 11:1-11
God’s Compassion Despite Israel’s Ingratitude
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.

Psalm 107:1-9, 43 Confitemini Domino
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.


Second Reading
Colossians 3:1-11
The New Life in Christ
3:1 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!


The Gospel
Luke 12:13-21
The Parable of the Rich Fool
12:13 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 toward God.”


Here ends the Lessons

The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Closing Prayer


Lord, thank you that we are a family in Christ. Help us to share his love and legacy with everyone that we encounter this week. May we lavish Christ’s abounding goodness upon our families, friends and colleagues. Holy Spirit, come and equip us in our workplace, guide us in our school life, and inspire us in our neighbourhood. May we be your hands and feet to the needy, your words of affirmation to the oppressed and your arms of comfort to the lonely.

Thank you for choosing to use us to bring your kingdom here on earth.
Amen.

Optional parts of the readings are set off in [square brackets.]

The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
Through a parable about a "rich fool" Jesus gave a sharp warning about the love of money. Greed leads to a false view of life. Greed leads to a fool’s death.

The Morning Prayer for Sunday, July 31, 2022

 


The Morning Prayer
Sunday, July 31, 2022


Many, Lord, are asking, "Who will bring us prosperity?" Let the light of your face shine on us.
Psalm 4:6 (NIV)

Lord our God, with all our hearts we come before your countenance. Our hearts shall always be in your presence, asking, longing, and believing that you will guide our affairs aright. Protect us, for you are our God and Father. Protect all who are in danger or who must go into danger. Make known your great love and your living presence to the hearts of the dying. Draw our hearts together so that we may have community in you, our faith and hope set on you alone. Protect us during the night, and help us to be at peace about all our concerns because they are in your hands. Every concern of every person is in your hands. We ourselves are in your hands, Lord God, our Father, and there we want to remain. Your hands can heal and restore everything. Praised be your name! Amen.

Verse of the Day Sunday, July 31, 2022

 


Verse of the Day
Sunday, July 31, 2022


John 1:12-13
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
Fallen human beings are not children of God by nature; this is the privilege only of those who have faith, a faith generated in them by the sovereign action of God.

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Scripture from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®.