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the word on The Word – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Do you like taking naps? Or just being able to relax after a long day? Veronica and Melissa contemplate the idea of resting…in the Lord. For Sunday's Mass Readings: ewtn.com/catholicism/daily-readings/2023-07-09

Homily, 09.29.2024 - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost & Second Sunday of Luke; the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. (1:21-2:4); the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (6:31-36)

The sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 17:11-19, by the Rev. Bo Ubbens. Support the Show.

Living Biblically Deuteronomy 4:1–9, Mark 7:1–23 The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday, September 1, 2024 Ashley Cleveland, Pastoral Associate Church of the Redeemer, Nashville TN www.Redeemer-Nashville.net

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, September 1, 2024 Glen Ridge Congregational Church Song of Songs 2:8–13

Sermon delivered by Dcn. Andrew Masters on Sunday, September 1, 2024.

Pastor Bender-presiding; Pastor Christiansen-assisting

Morning Prayer for Sunday, September 1, 2024 (The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity [Proper 17]). Psalm and Scripture readings (60-day Psalter): Psalms 1-2 2 Samuel 19:1-30 Ephesians 1:15-23 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here to access the text for the Daily Office at DailyOffice2019.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyofficepodcast/support

Vicar gives us his Top 12 Awkward Reading List, Bollhagen gives us his Top 12 Thoughts About Science and Christianity, and we discuss Berg's superhero name.   Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 17:11–19

The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity Sermon by Pastor Atkinson

2024-09-01 Sermon - Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 17:11-19

A Sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity St. Luke 17:11-19 & Galatians 5:16-24 by William Klock Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, St. Luke tells us.  Making his way there from Galilee for the last time.  And along the way, he passed through the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee.  Galilee was up in the north.  And as much as everyone talked about going “up to Jerusalem”, that was because it was up in the mountains.  Jerusalem, in the territory of Judah, was way down south.  In between was Samaria.  No self-respecting Jew cut through Samaria.  They went around.  Because the Samaritans were filth.  As I said last week, they were the Jews who went wrong to begin with way back when they broke from Judah and established their own illicit temple at Shechem, on Mount Gerizim.  But they'd gone from bad to worse when they intermarried with the pagans then compromised torah with various pagan influences.  The Jews despised the Samaritans (and the Samaritans didn't feel very kindly towards the Jews in return).  So Jesus and his disciples skirted through the borderlands.  Still, being so close, there was no telling who you might meet along the way. But, says Luke, as Jesus was going into one particular village he was met by ten men far worse than any Samaritan.  Ten men with leprosy.  They knew the rules.  They stayed some distance away, but they approached as close as they dared.  They were unclean and they were outcasts.  Leprosy in the Bible could be any one of a multitude of contagious skin diseases, and according to the torah, if a priest certified you had such a disease, you were cut off from everyone: from your family, from your friends, from the community.  They had to go off and live in their own little colonies on the fringes of civilisation.  If they were lucky, their friends and family might bring them food and leave it at a distance.  But maybe worse still, they were cut off from the covenant community—from the people of God.  They were unwelcome in the synagogues.  They were cut off from the temple because they were unclean.  That meant they were excluded from the Lord's presence and from the sacrificial system that provided forgiveness of sins.  And they were cut off from the Passover.  You had to be ritually pure to participate in that too.  To put it in our terms: they were cut off from the church and the sacraments. And there wasn't much sympathy for them.  Do you remember the blind man who Jesus and the disciples encountered in John 9?  The first question from the disciples was, “Who sinned?  This man or his parents?”  That's the lens through which people looked at lepers and cripples and the destitute.  They wouldn't be in such a state if they hadn't done something to offend the Lord.  Leprosy was sort of a sign that God's judgement had fallen on you early.  I hope that gives you a sense of just how hopeless these men would have felt. But for the first time in a long time they had a glimmer of hope.  They heard that Jesus was passing through town.  The good news that Jesus was preaching, the stories about him healing the sick and even raising the dead, they'd spread far and wide—even to the leper colonies.  Wherever he went, Jesus was making sad things come untrue and wiping away tears, and so they went to him.  Maybe he'd make their sad things come untrue, too.  And so they stood at a distance.  Again, they weren't allowed to get close.  I'd bet they'd probably been taught lessons in the past about getting too close to healthy people, to good people—who had cursed at them and thrown rocks at them.  Knowing how Jesus' disciples could be sometimes, it's not hard to imagine some of the having already picked up some nice, heavy, pointy rocks to throw—just in case.  So they stand at a distance and they call out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” That got Jesus' attention.  That title “Master”, that they used.  That's usually what his disciples called him, but he didn't hear it very often from other people.  People called him “rabbi” or “teacher”, but this “Master”—it had the sense of rabbi or teacher, too, but it was something you called someone whom you knew also had authority.  Again, they'd heard about the things Jesus had done.  They knew that somehow and in some way he had authority over sickness, disease—even over death itself.  And so they call out to him in faith: “Master!  Have mercy on us!  Show us compassion!  Wipe away our tears.  Make our sad things come untrue!  We know you can, because you have mastery over sickness and death.” And in response, Jesus said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.”  He doesn't heal them.  Instead he sends them to the priest.  But it makes sense if you understand that it was the priests who were trained according to the torah to evaluate these diseases and to determine whether someone was healed or not.  Eventually, they'd have to go to see the local priest one way or another if they wanted to be admitted back into the community.  So Jesus sends them to do the very thing they would have to do if they were healed. The way Luke tells the story draws a pretty unmistakable parallel with the story of Naaman in 2 Kings 5.  Naaman was the commander of the Syrian army back in the days of the Prophet Elisha.  Naaman was also a leper.  But he had a young Jewish slave girl in his house who told of this prophet.  Naaman eventually went to see Elisha, but Elisha refused to see him.  Instead, the prophet sent Naaman a messenger, who told the commander to go and wash in the Jordan River.  Naaman was furious.  He was mad that Elisha wouldn't see him and he was mad at being told to wash in a dirty Jewish river, as if it were somehow better than the rivers of his own country.  But eventually, in faith, Naaman went and washed in the Jordan.  He went down into the waters and rose up healed of his leprosy. In the same way Elisha told Naaman to take a step of faith, Jesus tells these men to do the same.  Go to the local priest.  It seemed like a waste of time.  He'd just have them hold out their hands and feet, their arms and legs, have them uncover their heads—and there would be all the sores and the priest would tell them they were still unclean.  But because of what they'd heard about Jesus, they went on off in faith to see the priest anyway. I think Luke—a gentile—frames the story this way, drawing the parallel with Naaman, for a reason.  Earlier in Luke, Jesus had rebuked the people of Nazareth by reminding them of Naaman and Elisha.  He said to them, “There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the Prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian” (Luke 4:27).  In other words, because of their lack of faith, Israel was missing out on the Lord's deliverance.  Instead, it was the outsiders who were hearing and receiving the good news: the tax collectors and sinners, Samaritans and gentiles—even lepers.  It's as if Jesus knew how each of these men would respond. They came to Jesus in faith and in faith all ten of them go off to see the priest.  And Luke writes that “as they went, they were healed.”  What they asked for in faith, Jesus gives.  Think of what that meant.  Once the priest had given them the all clear, they could return to their families and to their community.  They could go to the synagogue.  Once again, they could know God's forgiveness of sin at the temple.  They could eat the Passover and know they belonged to the Lord.  And yet, Luke writes, one of them—only one—seeing that he'd been healed, turned back and gave glory to God at the top of his voice.  He fell on his face at Jesus' feet and thanked him.  And, Luke adds, he was a Samaritan. Jesus' miracle highlights who he is and what he's come to do.  Jesus' miracle highlights the faithfulness of the God of Israel to his promises.  The healing of the ten lepers, like all of Jesus' miracles, proclaims the coming of the promised and long-awaited kingdom.  In Jesus the Messiah, the God of Israel is doing what he promised and beginning to set the world to rights.  This is astounding.  And yet these nine men seem to take it for granted.  We're not privy to their motives and neither was Luke.  Maybe they were just so overwhelmed by excitement and joy that they forgot.  Maybe they were afraid to go back lest the miracle be undone.  Maybe they planned to go back later, but then they saw the priest and he warned them.  By this point Jesus was a marked man.  Maybe they were afraid to be associated with him.  But whatever their motive, they highlight the plight of Israel.  Like the people of Nazareth, they took Jesus for granted.  They wanted their own personal messiah to do tricks for them.  At least these men didn't reject Jesus, but in the end they seem to take the mighty works of God for granted.  There's no thanksgiving.  They don't glorify him for what he's done.  They just take his blessings and run.  Which is ironic, because they were Jews, named after Jacob's son, Judah, whose name in Hebrew means “praise”. And then there's that one Samaritan in the lot.  We don't know his motives either.  Samaritans weren't particularly interested in Jewish messiahs.  He went with the others to see Jesus just because he was desperate and ready to give anything a try.  And this Jewish Messiah healed him—an outcast and an outsider—and he was suddenly overwhelmed with gratitude.  Jesus owed him nothing, but gave him everything.  And so he can't not go back.  He falls at the feet of Jesus and gives him thanks.  And I think this is the reason only Luke tells us this story, because he too was an outsider—not a leper, but a gentile.  The God of Israel owed him nothing.  The people of the God of Israel treated him like trash.  But in Jesus the Messiah, the God of Israel had given him everything. We get a sense of this as Luke finishes the story.  Jesus asks the man, “There were ten of you healed, weren't there?  Where are the nine?  Is it really the case that the only one who had the decency to give God the glory was this foreigner?”  We get the sense that Jesus wasn't just talking to the Samaritan man, but to a larger crowd.  The gratitude of this foreigner became a rebuke on Israel.  The people whose name means “praise” are just standing around watching a miracle, while this Samaritan glorifies their God.  Jesus had warned them before that God could raise up children for Abraham from the stones and now, here, one of those stones cries out in praise and thanksgiving. And then, turning back to the man, he said to him, “Get up and be on your way.  Your faith has saved you.”  All through the story, Luke describes these lepers as being cleansed.  Their diseases made them unclean and now they've been healed, cleansed, and restored.  But in those final words to the Samaritan, Jesus says, “Your faith has saved you.”  Maybe the change from cleansed to saved is because he's a Samaritan.  No amount of healing would make him an Israelite or permit him into the temple, but he's still been delivered from his disease.  But I think that there's something more to the choice of words.  Maybe it's Luke emphasising, as he records in Greek what Jesus would have said in Aramaic, maybe it's Luke emphasising that this man had experienced the same thing he had—that through faith in Jesus, this man who was an outsider and who was despised not just for his disease, but for who he was, this man who could never be part of the old people of Israel, had nevertheless been given a place in the age to come, in the future world of the God of Israel, in that place where our tears are wiped away and everything is set to rights and where the people sing forever and always the glory of God.  This no good Samaritan hated by everyone who mattered, suddenly found himself that day a child of Abraham and of the God of Israel. He was transformed.  The promises made to Abraham were fulfilled, even if in a small way with just one person, the promises made to Abraham were fulfilled that day as that Samaritan man knelt as Jesus' feet and glorified God.  He went back to Samaria a different person.  I fully expect he went back to Samaria proclaiming the glories of God, all because of gratitude for what Jesus had done for him.  In that, he showed up Israel and, I think, he shows us up. Brothers and Sisters, you and I have been confronted with the same saving mercies of God.  We have known his forgiveness and his deliverance through Jesus, who gave his life for us and then rose from the grave.  We not only know his common graces every day in the air we breathe and the food we eat, but we know the life of God's kingdom through the gift of his indwelling Spirit.  Every Sunday he invites us to his Table to participate once again in this great exodus from sin and death that Jesus has led us through in our baptism.  And too often we take it all for granted.  He invites us to his Table, but we don't come.  He incorporates us into his family, but we neglect our brothers and sisters or we treat them poorly.  He gifts us with the fruit of his Spirit, but we instead cultivate what Paul, in our Epistle from Galatians 5, calls the works of the flesh.  Paul knew this is what happens when we lose our focus on Jesus and Jesus alone.  The Galatians were adding to Jesus.  Jesus plus torah was their gospel, but in the end it took their eyes off Jesus and they stumbled spiritually.  Their problem probably isn't our problem, but there are a  thousand other things that can distract us from Jesus and from what God has done for us in him.  As I said last week, sometimes we just become so focused looking at the path beneath our feet that we forget to look up.  We let ourselves become consumed with the things of this old age that is passing away, with the troubles and difficulties of life, with what we should eat or what we should wear, that we stop seeking after the kingdom of God and his righteousness.  And before we know it, we've lost our gratitude.  We stop singing the glories of God.  We stop living the life of the Spirit. So Paul wrote to the Galatians and exhorted them in 5:16, “Let me say this to you: live by the Spirit, and you won't do what the flesh wants you to.  For the flesh wants to go against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.  They're opposed to each other, so that you can't do what you want.  But if you are led by the Spirit, you're not under the law.” Again, their problem was Jesus plus torah.  We might be trying to do some other variation of Jesus plus works or Jesus plus love of money or Jesus plus worry over inflation or Jesus plus my worldly activities—again, there are a thousand things that can pull us away from Jesus.  Whatever our combination is, losing sight of Jesus, compromising our loyalty to Jesus, is going to work out in losing the life of the Spirit and the warning sign is when we start living the old life of the flesh.  Paul goes on and says, “Now the works of the flesh are obvious.  They are such things as fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, bursts of rage, selfish ambition, factiousness, divisions, moods of envy, drunkenness, wild partying, and similar things.  I told you before, and I tell you again: people who do such things will not inherit God's kingdom.” Brothers and Sisters, the people who will inherit the kingdom are the people who already value it today—the people who have been made new already by Jesus and given the life of the Spirit, because it's Jesus and the Spirit who will—and are presently—making us fit for God's new world.  And those people, Paul writes, are characterised by the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control….And those who belong to Jesus the Messiah, they crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”   But we need to go one verse further with the Epistle.  Paul writes to them, “If we live by the Spirit, let's line up with the Spirit.”  You can't claim to have the life of the Spirit while living out the works of the flesh.  And the way we do that—this is the heart of Galatians, which Lord willing we'll start working through next Sunday—the heart of Galatians is this message of Jesus and Jesus alone.  We need to set our eyes on him and as we set our eyes on him, our hearts and minds will follow.  We need to be like the Samaritan leper in the Gospel, with our focus intent on the amazing things that God has done for us in Jesus.  We need to have his incarnation, his cross, his shed blood and his resurrection and his ascension always before us.  We need always to remember that we who had no share in his inheritance, have through Jesus been made sons and daughters of God. Brothers and Sisters, this why we immerse ourselves in his word, that we might always be reminded of his great mercy towards us.  And this is why we come to his Table every Sunday.  Like the Israelites celebrating the Passover every year to participate for themselves in that great saving act by which he delivered them from Pharoah's bondage and made them his people, so we come every week and participate in the death and resurrection of Jesus, we participate in this great exodus in which, by his shed blood and his rising again, he has delivered us from our bondage to sin and death and made us his sons and daughters.  Come to the Table and remember the mighty, saving works of God.  Come to the Table and be refreshed by Jesus and the Spirit.  Look up to Jesus and the cross, then go out in the power of the Spirit to proclaim is glories. Let's pray: Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and love; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Morning Prayer and Holy Communion (The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/1662pod/support

Sunday, September 1, 2024 Rev. David Buchs

Evening Prayer for Saturday, August 31, 2024 (Eve of The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity [Proper 17]; Aidan, Abbot-Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary to Northumbria, 651). Psalm and Scripture readings (60-day Psalter): Psalms 149-150 Jonah 2 Matthew 3 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here to access the text for the Daily Office at DailyOffice2019.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyofficepodcast/support

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost St. John's, Lafayette Square Washington, DC

Lead Pastor Ashley Mathews preaches from the Gospel of John on the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost.

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost The Collect: Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Old Testament: Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 1Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. 2And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 14“Now therefore revere the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” 16Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods; 17for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our ancestors up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight. He protected us along all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed; 18and the Lorddrove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.” Psalm: Psalm 34:15-22 15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, *         and his ears are open to their cry. 16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, *         to root out the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the Lord hears them *         and delivers them from all their troubles. 18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted *         and will save those whose spirits are crushed. 19 Many are the troubles of the righteous, *         but the Lord will deliver him out of them all. 20 He will keep safe all his bones; *         not one of them shall be broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked, *         and those who hate the righteous will be punished. 22 The Lord ransoms the life of his servants, *         and none will be punished who trust in him. Epistle: Ephesians 6:10-20 10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. 11Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. 15As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. 16With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints. 19Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, 20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak. Gospel: John 6:56-69 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.” 59He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. 60When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” 61But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? 62Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64But among you there are some who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.65And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.” 66Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. 67So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” 68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”

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The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: The shadows of the evening hours – Joshua Haberman (b. 1982) PSALM 34:15-22 – Plainsong, Tone V.2 HYMN: Abide with me (Tune: EVENTIDE) – William Henry Monk (1823-1889) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone VII; harm. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) ANTHEM: Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes – Jacob […]

The Rev. Hannah Pommersheim's children's sermon from the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost & Blessing of the Backpacks. For more, visit www.saintlukesdarien.org. 

A sermon by the Rev. Salmoon Bashir on the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 16 (August 25, 2024) at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta

August 25, 2024 - The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Fr. Christopher Yoder by All Souls' Episcopal Church

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 25, 2024 The Only Food We Really Need Sermon based on John 6:51-69 https://stpeterchurchmodesto.org

Morning Prayer for Sunday, August 25, 2024 (The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity [Proper 16]; Louis, King of France, 1270). Psalm and Scripture readings (60-day Psalter): Psalms 132-133 2 Samuel 12:1-25 Colossians 1:21-2:7 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here to access the text for the Daily Office at DailyOffice2019.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyofficepodcast/support

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Joshua 24:1-6, 14-18, John 6: 51-69 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. Tullberg Sermon text: John 6: 51-69 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52 At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the Last Day. 55 For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like your fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.” 59 He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. 60 When they heard it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching! Who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this cause you to stumble in your faith? 62 What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh does not help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray him. 65 He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is given to him by my Father.” 66 After this, many of his disciples turned back and were not walking with him anymore. 67 So Jesus asked the Twelve, “You do not want to leave too, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.” The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Take a Moment to recall something from today's message. Ask Jesus to create for you opportunities to use your words, activities and thoughts to glorify Him this week. We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Father Ackerman - Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18, Psalm 34:15-22, Ephesians 6:10-20, John 6:56-69;

Evening Prayer for Saturday, August 24, 2024 (Bartholomew the Apostle; Eve of The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity [Proper 16]). Psalm and Scripture readings (60-day Psalter): Psalms 129-131 Amos 5 John 19:1-37 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here to access the text for the Daily Office at DailyOffice2019.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyofficepodcast/support

Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, which are 1 Kings 8:[1, 6, 10-11], 22-30, 41-43, Ephesians 6:10-20, and John 6:56-69.

Linn Tonstad and Yii-Jan Lin discuss cosmology, martial imagery, incarceration, and power in Ephesians 6:10-20. The text is appointed for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary.More Yale Bible Study resources, including a transcript of this episode, at: https://YaleBibleStudy.org/podcastLinn Tonstad is Associate Professor of Theology, Religion, and Sexuality at Yale Divinity School. Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School.Connect with Yale Bible Study: Facebook: @YDSCCE Twitter: @BibleYale YouTube: youtube.com/c/YaleBibleStudy LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/yds-center-for-continuing-education Thank you for listening!

Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord.21B) on August 25, 2024.  The conversation delves into the Bread of Life discourse, the challenges and resistances to Jesus' teachings, the betrayal of Judas, the dedication of the temple, and the metaphor of putting on the armor of God in Ephesians. Commentaries for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord. 21B):  https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-21-2/commentary-on-john-656-69-6 Timecodes: 0:00 Intro  1:06 Gospel of John 6: 56-69 11:43 First Reading - Joshua 24: 1-2a, 14-18 17:00 Psalm 34: 15-22 18:54 Alternate First Reading - 1 Kings 8 24:54 Second Reading on Ephesians 5 :15-20 31:49 End Connect with Working Preacher: https://www.workingpreacher.org/ https://www.facebook.com/workingpreacher https://www.instagram.com/workingpreacher/ https://x.com/WorkingPreacher Watch the Full Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/caxtaDF8f0A.

Join Catholic evangelist and bible teacher, Hector Molina as he explores the Mass Readings for the Fourteenth Sunday Easter, Year B.Mass Readings:Ezekiel 2:2-5Ps 123:1-4Mark 6:1-6"A Walk in The Word" podcast is a weekly bible study and reflection on the Sunday Mass readings led by International Catholic evangelist and bible teacher, Hector Molina.PODCAST HOMEPAGE: https://awalkintheword.buzzsprout.comYOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/hectormolinacatholicevangelistSupport: Are you enjoying these videos? Become a Patron and partner with me in spreading the Good News! https://www.patreon.com/hectormolina/You can also show your support for the podcast by visiting: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hectormolina/#fourteenthsundayinordinarytime #14thsundayinordinarytime #rejectioninnazareth #sundaymassreadings #catholiclectionary #sundaygospel#catholicbiblestudy #hectormolina #awalkintheword #catholicpodcast #bibleinayear#wordonfire #sundayhomily

Let us open our eyes and see what is among us and see if we can participate. At least recognize them for the gifts that are here, that are the ordinary being turned into extraordinary. That we can be grateful for the gift among us and be part of it, maybe to be willing to step in  and to help in some way. (Read more…)Here is my homily from the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share with others.

Fr. Eric's homily on the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Why are we given "thorns in the flesh"?

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God can be glorified through our wounds, not merely in spite of them. We all experience brokenness. We all experience God's love through a broken lens. And yet we do encounter them in this way. Mass Readings from July 7, 2024: Ezekiel 2:2-5 Psalms 123:1-42 Corinthians 12:7-10 Mark 6:1-6

Read OnlineJesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. Mark 6:4–6Why was Jesus “not able to perform any mighty deed” in His hometown of Nazareth? Because the people who had known Him since He was a youth lacked faith in Him. But why wouldn't Jesus simply perform awe-inspiring miracles with the hope of winning them over? Why not try to convince them by raising someone from the dead or by revealing His transfigured glory to His kinfolk, as He did on the Mount of Transfiguration to three of His disciples? The answer goes to the heart of the workings of faith in each soul.Jesus' goal in His hometown was not to convince the people that He was the Son of God, the Messiah. He could have easily convinced them of this by the most incredible of miracles and proved Who He was. But doing so would have undermined the reason He came. He came to ignite authentic faith in people's hearts, not to convince them through clever reasoning or by the proof of miracles. Miracles were offered to those who already had faith, so as to increase their faith and to show them mercy. But when one lacked faith, a miracle could not increase that which was absent. It might have convinced them on a rational level, or at least impressed them greatly, but that is not true faith. By analogy, say your spouse said to you, “I love you,” and your response was “Prove it.” How would they do so? What could they do to prove that they truly love you? Perhaps they could show charity, kindness, compassion and the like. These qualities certainly are manifestations of authentic love. But deep down, no one can prove they love another. Instead, love must be offered and received in a spiritual way. When that happens, each person somehow simply knows they love and are loved. This is the mystery of spiritual and authentic love.The same is true with faith. Faith can't be proved. It can't be analyzed rationally. It must be embraced and lived. If the people in Jesus' hometown were to have faith in Him, this gift of faith would start within their own souls. They would look at Him and listen to Him. By their openness and a special personal revelation from God, they would come to know and to believe Who He was. Faith comes first from within, when God communicates to the heart. Reflect, today, upon your own level of faith in Jesus. When you look into your own soul, what do you see? Do you see a heart that knows Christ Jesus as its Lord? Have you discovered the presence of God within you, speaking to you, revealing Himself to you? Or do you primarily look for external signs and proofs of God's presence and love? Look into your soul today and ponder the depth of faith that you discover there. When you discover this gift, gaze at it with love, for you are seeing God's revelation of Himself to you. My revealing Lord, You continuously speak to me in the depths of my heart, revealing to me Your divine presence and love. Give me a heart that is truly open to You on the deepest level, so that my faith will grow and I will know for certain Your divine love. Jesus, I trust in You. Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2024 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.Featured image above: In the Villages the Sick Were Presented to Him By James Tissot, via Brooklyn Museum

For the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr. Frank Donio, S.A.C reflects on living for Christ and responding to the reaction of others. Follow us:The Catholic Apostolate CenterThe Center's podcast websiteInstagramFacebookApple PodcastsSpotify Fr. Frank Donio, S.A.C. also appears on the podcast, On Mission, which is produced by the Catholic Apostolate Center. Follow the Center on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to remain up-to-date on the latest Center resources. Listen to Fr. Frank's more of weekly reflections and recent blogcasts.

Friends, on this Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading is from Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians. The focus of the reading is “a thorn in the flesh” that was given to Paul “to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.” What was it? We don't know, but whatever it was, it wasn't trivial. We all have something like this—some physical, psychological, or spiritual suffering that's chronic and deeply troubling. Yet this struggle with the thorn in the flesh is very often what brings us back to God.

In this reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rebecca Dougherty reflects on how God's power is perfected in human weakness and on the value of growth through challenges. The post Enkindle 218 – 07.07.24 – Room to Grow appeared first on numinous.fm.

This week we get all set for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time with Fr. Andy Syberg.

A Bible study on Mark 6:1-6, the Gospel reading for The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Cycle B.

“The Eucharist is the food that makes us hungry,” says Joe Laramie, S.J., so when he preaches, he hopes to stir his congregation “to deeper hunger for the Lord, to grow in deeper devotion to him.” Joe, the National Director of the Pope's Prayer Network and a preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival, preaches for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B. After the homily, Joe joins host Ricardo da Silva, S.J. to discuss how the National Eucharistic Revival is trying to stir greater hunger for the Eucharist among U.S. Catholics. He shares ideas on preaching the mystery of the Eucharist in an accessible way and tells Ricardo about how his previous experience as a high school teacher has informed his preaching. Read Joe's homily Read the Scripture readings for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B Get daily Scripture reflections and support “Preach” by becoming a digital subscriber to America Magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices