RCL Daily Readings for Oct. 7, Year B
Prayer of Invocation
Lord, whose city
is a place of prosperity, peace, and security:
We your people who
represent many families are glad to enter into your house to give thanks to the
name of the Lord. For the sake of all
our relatives and friends, we say “Peace be within you!” as we seek your good
blessings on each of all who we will name in this time of prayer.
Amen.
Prayer of Intercession
Merciful Lord:
You have made covenant with your people, and you
liken it marriage. When we marry, we say
we promise to remain faithful in sickness and health. We know that you remain faithful to us in our
sickness and health. We pray to you now
for the sickness of the world… the physical sickness that causes illnesses like
cancers, heart disease, COVID, and even death; the mental health sickness that
causes the anxieties, depressions, and paranoias; the spiritual sickness that
causes violence, discrimination, abuse, and other sins. We pray to you Lord, as you abide with us
through this sickness, that your mercies would bring healing to all of these sicknesses. We thank you for hearing the prayers of your
people gathered together in one name, the name of Jesus Christ, who taught us
this prayer: Our Father… Amen.
Great Thanksgving
Christ our Lord
invites all to his table who love him,
who earnestly repent of their sin
and seek to live in peace with one
another.
Therefore, let
us confess our sin before God and one another.
Let us pray…
Lord, whose
throne in the heavenly house of God is the seat of judgment:
We offer to you
our confession for the violation of your covenant.
We have lusted
after other gods, committing adultery against you, O Lord,
when we have loved money over you;
when
we have loved self over you;
when we have loved technology over you;
when we have loved success over you;
when we have loved status symbols over you;
when we have loved celebrity over you;
when we have loved anything or anyone over
you.
You said that
to love you is the greatest of the law and to love neighbor is the second.
And so, we
confess also that we have not loved our neighbors and this stems from our
idolatries.
Hear our
prayers, O Lord, and forgive us of these sins and the sins we confess now in
our hearts… AMEN
Hear the Good
News:
The Lord our
God has said:
“I will not cause my anger to fall on you.
For I am merciful,
I will not remain angry forever.
Only acknowledge your iniquity,
that you have transgressed against the
Lord your God,
and have scattered your charms
to alien deities under every green
tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice.”
Having confessed
before God, He is merciful and His anger subsides.
In the name of
Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
In the name
of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
Glory to
God. Amen.
The Lord be
with you.
And also
with you.
Lift up your
hearts.
We lift them
up to the Lord
Let us give
thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right
to give our thanks and praise.
always and everywhere to give thanks to
you,
Father Almighty, creator of heaven and
earth.
When you
established the bounds of the heavens and the earth,
you gave us a place, set aside, where
all was prosperous and peaceful;
but we transgressed against your will
and we were exiled from the Garden.
When you established the bounds of your heavenly city on earth,
you gave us a place, set aside, where it
was supposed be prosperous and peaceful;
but we transgressed against your will
and we were exiled to Babylon.
When you sent your Son, he promised a place in the heavenly city of your
kingdom,
a place, set aside, where all will be prosperous
and peaceful,
a place where all your people on earth
and all the company of heaven
will praise your name and join their
unending hymn:
Holy, holy,
holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth
are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is
he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Holy are you,
and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ,
who taught us by His words and example
what love for God and neighbor looks
like.
He explained to us how vital the covenant
with you is,
and how we can adhere to it.
By His baptism
of suffering, death, and resurrection
you gave birth to your Church,
delivered us from slavery to sin and
death,
and made with us a new covenant by
water and the Spirit.
And when He ascended
into heaven,
the place of prosperity and peace,
He made it possible for us to follow.
On the night in which he gave
himself up for us, he took bread,
gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
When the supper was over he took the cup,
gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:
"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,
we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving
as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,
and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,
that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
By your Spirit make us one with Christ,
one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world,
until Christ comes in final
victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet.
Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church,
all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father (God), now and for ever.
Amen.
With the breaking of the bread,
which is the Body of Christ, broken for us, we return from our backsliding.
Take and eat.
With the supping from the cup, which
is the Blood of Christ, poured out for the remission of sins, we return from our
backsliding.
Take and drink. Amen.
Benediction
Children of the Lord:
As you leave from these walls, and each goes to his and her own walls and
palaces,
take with you the peace and prosperity
of this place.
This prosperity and peace with will be with you for all time
so long as you stay in covenant with
the Lord God.
And He will be faithful to bring us to Zion.
He is the Lord, the Father.
He is the Lord, the Son.
He is the Lord, the Spirit.
In His holy and Triune Name.
AMEN
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