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Psalm 23
I am like a sheep being looked after by God. Even when death comes close, you look after me and feed me and I will live always in your presence.
Psalm 27
Even though there is trouble all around, I am glad that God is with me. Even if my parents were to disown me, you, God, will stay faithful to me.
These two psalms are often used on Saturdays when Jesus lies dead in the grave. God is now the only hope.
Leviticus 23.23-44 What’s Leviticus about?
More detailed instructions centring on the seventh day or seventh month, representing the conclusion of creation on the seventh day when all was complete and fulfilled. Through these complex rituals the people were to re-experience how God rescued them when they were a society of no importance and had made them completed and fulfilled, and that they must do the same for others because God is a God of justice and dignity for all.
Matthew 7.13-21 What’s Matthew about?
In Matthew, Jesus continues to emphasize that being a disciple means having different priorities from the rest of society, and to recognize that this is challenging.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
Give us grace to love one another
and walk in the way of his commandments,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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