RCL Daily Reading Year B
Oct. 13, 2021
Prayer of
Invocation
Lord who
examines each of us:
Tonight, we
walk with integrity to your altar. We
mean by this that we want our heart and mind to trust you and you alone as we
proclaim with thanksgiving your wonderous works. All the while we continue to seek your
redemptive and merciful Spirit that is sent through your Son Jesus Christ, in
whose name we pray. Amen.
Intercessory Prayer
Father God of all
including father Abraham:
We thank you
for having spoke to us through Moses and the prophets, and having revealed
yourself to us not only in this word, but in the Word who is Your Son, Jesus
Christ. We pray tonight for those among
us who are full of sores. Perhaps these
sores are physical and are the aches and pains of injury, disease, or violence. Perhaps these sores are mental and are caused
by long ago trauma, recent griefs, anxieties, the state of the world and its
affairs, or other psychological issues.
Perhaps these sores stem from want and need created by poverty or
marginalization. Sometimes we even
inflict more sores upon ourselves because we seek to stem the pain of other
sores, but we have not sought healing in the right places. Whatever the source of the sores on our
bodies or in our hearts, you Lord, reach out especially to those who have these
hurts… And you call upon your church to do the same. We pray tonight, Lord Jesus Christ, that we
would be, as your church, the ones who would do this so that the Lazarus’s of
the world will find rest in your bosom.
We pray it with your prayer: Our Father… Amen.
Communion
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, although
our feet stand here with your congregation,
we are sometimes like the rich man in the parable,
we seek to maintain only our wealth
we fail to pay any attention to the needy who are at our door.
Forgive us we
pray for our idolatry, hypocrisy, and evil deeds.
Forgive us we pray when we don’t reach out to these who are our cousins
and instead side with their persecutors by our failure to act.
Forgive us also
of our sins that we confess in silence…
AMEN
Hear the Good
News:
The Lord our
God has lovingkindness and washes us so we are innocent in his eyes.
He does not gather our lives with the bloodthirsty, the sinister, the briber.
But instead, he
allows us to walk in integrity, redeeming us and being merciful.
In the name of
Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
Glory to God.
Amen.
We lift our
hearts to you, O Lord,
We give you thanks
to you, our God because
it is always a good,
right, and joyful thing,
to give thanks to you,
Father Almighty, creator of heaven and
earth.
At one time,
the people of the earth walked with integrity,
but they soon left that behind, choosing
their own walk instead of yours.
Since then, all have chosen their own
walk, except One.
You foretold that
your Anointed would arrive through the prophets
and John prepared the way for Him
announcing that
roads would be straight and mountains
leveled
making it clear that it is easy to get
to Him.
His arrival and
sinlessness on this earth makes it possible
that we can follow His way when our
time here on earth is finished
re-establishing the walking with integrity in
your eyes
to Mount Zion, the heavenly habitation of
your Glory,
The place where
the congregation of your people on earth and in heaven
praises 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 through stories about
your kingdom
about the works of faith that allow us
to look forward to our residence there.
He ascended after His resurrection so that we can rise to life and ascend to
heaven.
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.
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.
This is the bread and drink from
the Lord’s table feeds you and sustains you because it is the body and blood of
Christ. Take, eat, drink. Amen.
Benediction
See the needy at your doorstep and care for
them.
Through the Love of our Father God
Through the Grace of the Christ
Through the Spirit of the Living God
the chasm between heaven and earth is bridged to give you life.
AMEN
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