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St Germans Church
1 October 2017 - (Ordinary Time 26 - Trinity 16)
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COLLECT:
Lord of all creation, you give us the fruits of the earth in their season and crown the year with your goodness: help us so to
receive your gifts with thankful hearts that we may use them to your glory, for the relief of those in want and to meet our
daily needs; through Jesus Christ the Bread of life, who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one
God, now and for ever. Amen.
Readings:
First: A reading from the book of Make walk in your truth, and teach me: This is the Word of the Lord.
for you are God my saviour. R/
Deuteronomy.
2 Remember your mercy, Lord, Gospel: A reading from the Gospel
For the LORD your God is bringing you and the love you have shown from of according to St Luke.
into a good land, a land with flowing old.
streams, with springs and underground Do not remember the sins of my youth. Then he told them a parable: The land
waters welling up in valleys and hills, a In your love remember me, of a rich man produced abundantly. And
land of wheat and barley, of vines and because of your goodness, O Lord. R/ he thought to himself, What should I
fig trees and pomegranates, a land of do, for I have no place to store my
olive trees and honey, a land where you 3 The Lord is good and upright. crops? Then he said, I will do this: I
may eat bread without scarcity, where He shows the path to those who stray, will pull down my barns and build larger
you will lack nothing, a land whose he guides the humble in the right path; ones, and there I will store all my grain
stones are iron and from whose hills you he teaches his way to the poor. R/ and my goods. And I will say to my soul,
may mine copper. You shall eat your fill Soul, you have ample goods laid up for
and bless the LORD your God for the many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.
good land that he has given you. But God said to him, You fool! This very
Second: A reading from St Pauls night your life is being demanded of
Take care that you do not forget the 2nd letter to the Corinthians. you. And the things you have prepared,
LORD your God, by failing to keep his whose will they be? So it is with those
commandments, his ordinances, and his The point is this: the one who sows who store up treasures for themselves
statutes, which I am commanding you sparingly will also reap sparingly, and but are not rich towards God.
today. When you have eaten your fill and the one who sows bountifully will also He said to his disciples, Therefore I tell
have built fine houses and live in them, reap bountifully. Each of you must give you, do not worry about your life, what
and when your herds and flocks have as you have made up your mind, not you will eat, or about your body, what
multiplied, and your silver and gold is reluctantly or under compulsion, for God you will wear. For life is more than food,
multiplied, and all that you have is loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to and the body more than clothing.
multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, provide you with every blessing in Consider the ravens: they neither sow
forgetting the LORD your God, who abundance, so that by always having nor reap, they have neither storehouse
brought you out of the land of Egypt, enough of everything, you may share nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of
out of the house of slavery, who led you abundantly in every good work. As it is how much more value are you than the
through the great and terrible written, He scatters abroad, he gives to birds! And can any of you by worrying
wilderness, an arid waste-land with thepoor; his righteousness endures for add a single hour to your span of life? If
poisonous snakes and scorpions. He ever. He who supplies seed to the sower then you are not able to do so small a
made water flow for you from flint rock, and bread for food will supply and thing as that, why do you worry about
and fed you in the wilderness with multiply your seed for sowing and the rest? Consider the lilies, how they
manna that your ancestors did not know, increase the harvest of your grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell
to humble you and to test you, and in righteousness. You will be enriched in you, even Solomon in all his glory was
the end to do you good. Do not say to every way for your great generosity, not clothed like one of these. But if God
yourself, My power and the might of my which will produce thanksgiving to God so clothes the grass of the field, which is
own hand have gained me this wealth. through us; for the rendering of this alive today and tomorrow is thrown into
But remember the LORD your God, for it ministry not only supplies the needs of the oven, how much more will he clothe
is he who gives you power to get wealth, the saints but also overflows with many youyou of little faith! And do not keep
so that he may confirm his covenant that thanksgivings to God. Through the striving for what you are to eat and what
he swore to your ancestors, as he is testing of this ministry you glorify God you are to drink, and do not keep
doing today. by your obedience to the confession of worrying. For it is the nations of the
the gospel of Christ and by the world that strive after all these things,
This is the Word of the Lord. generosity of your sharing with them and your Father knows that you need
and with all others, while they long for them..
you and pray for you because of the
Psalm 25 Response:
surpassing grace of God that he has
Remember your mercy Lord. given you. Thanks be to God for his This is the gospel of the Lord.
indescribable gift!
1 Lord, make me know your ways.
Lord, teach me your paths.