Saturday October 23 Pentecost 21
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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.
Ezra 4: 7-24 What’s Ezra about?
Complaints are made to the Persian King that Jerusalem is being re-built and that the country will rebel and leave the empire. The king orders that work on the temple cease. Is it possible that God will abandon Jerusalem after all?
Matthew 12: 33-42 What’s Matthew about?
Jesus continues his condemnation of anyone deliberately describing good to be evil, and says that the most famous evil doers of the Old Testament have seen the truth and will condemn the modern people who call good things evil.
This week’s collect:
Almighty and everliving God,
increase in us your gift of faith,
that forsaking what lies behind
and reaching out to what is before,
we may run the way of your commandments
and win the crown of everlasting joy;
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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