Above: The Healing of the Ten Lepers, by James Tissot
The Universal God
The Sunday Closest to October 12
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
OCTOBER 9, 2022
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The Assigned Readings:
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-11
or
2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111
then
2 Timothy 2:8-15
Luke 17:11-19
The Collect:
Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; 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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Some Related Posts:
Prayer of Praise and Adoration:
Prayer of Confession:
http://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/hostility-fractures-the-body/
Prayer of Dedication:
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Grace for outsiders is a potent and often politically unpopular theme. Much of the time the outsiders are enemies, perhaps nationals of hostile realms. Such was the case regarding Naaman. And what about the Prophet Jeremiah’s advice to seek the welfare of the soon-to-be-conquering empire? And, although Samaritans lived within the borders of the Roman Empire (as did Palestinian Jews), there was a long-standing hostile relationship between them and Jews. A Samaritan receiving good press in the Gospels was scandalous indeed.
Yet the God of Judaism and Christianity is for all people, although far from all of them worship and revere God. For all of them Christ died and with him all the potential (often unrealized) to live and reign. For, as St. Simon Peter said at Caesarea,
…God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him does what is right is acceptable to him.
–Acts 10:34b-35, New Revised Standard Version
God has many sheep. I belong to just one flock. And I wonder how many other sheep and flocks there are as I hope that I will never mistake any of them for not being of God. I interpret the “other sheep” to be Gentiles in the original context. But who, other than God, knows what really goes on inside others spiritually? Many of the officially observant are just putting up facades. And many people have faith of which God alone knows. What I do not know outweighs what I do know.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
MAY 2, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINT SIGISMUND OF BURGUNDY, KING; SAINT CLOTILDA, FRANKISH QUEEN; AND SAINT CLODOALD, FRANKISH PRINCE AND ABBOT
THE FEAST OF SAINT ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA, ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN
THE FEAST OF JAMES LEWIS MILLIGAN, HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF SAINT MARCULF OF NANTEUIL, ROMAN CATHOLIC ABBOT
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