Saturday September 7 Pentecost 15
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Psalm 42
When I am very discouraged, I will remember to put my trust in God. The refrains in these two psalms are said by many Christian priests before presiding at the Eucharist to confess their own sins and to trust in God.
Psalm 43
This psalm is said by many Christian priests as they prepare to go to the altar to preside at a eucharist.
Job 22.1-4, 21-23.7 What’s Job about?
Job’s three friends have each tried twice to convince Job that God will treat him with justice. Now they try a third time. Eliphaz argues that God doesn’t need humans, but if we are humble and remain pure from greed, God will save us. But Job insists that if he could speak to God, God would have to provide an explanation for what God had done to Job—in other words, God would have to take responsibility for Job’s disaster.
John 10.1-18 What’s John about?
Jesus contrasts his care for people with the false shepherds. We can apply this to various false priorities in our world. The proof of Jesus’ claim of being divine is that he is prepared to give up his life for humanity—that is the central nature of God, and so Jesus will be enacting that nature himself.
This week’s collect:
Author and Giver of all good things,
graft in our hearts the love of your name,
increase in us true religion,
nourish us in all goodness,
and of your great mercy keep us in the same;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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