Sunday Oct 27, 2024

Daily Anglican Prayer – Sunday Holy Eucharist at home - 27th October 2024

Daily Anglican Prayer – Sunday Holy Eucharist at home - 27^th October 2024

Readings.

Job 42. 1-6, 10-17;

Psalm 34. 1-8;

Hebrews 7. 21-28;

Mark 10. 46-52.

Led by Felicity Scott, a Liturgical Assistant with the Anglican Church, QLD, Australia.

The full prayer transcript is available by going to this episode on the Podcast website.

https://dailyprayeranglicanprayerbookforaustralia.podbean.com

Welcome to Sunday Holy Eucharist for you at home from the Anglican a prayer book for Australia.

Preparing for this Eucharist:

During this service you can minister Eucharist to yourself and your gathered family members.

Place on your table if you have them, a Bible, a small glass of red wine or grape juice, pieces of bread or wafers, one piece for each participant, a lighted candle and a cross. Gather all who are to partake in the Eucharist around the table.

The words of this eucharist are available from page 119 in the Anglican a prayer book for Australia or use the episode link to view the words.

We gather together to celebrate God.

We proclaim the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ:

GOD in his infinite mercy, forgives all sins, and through our baptism in the name of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, we are given a rebirth into new life, free from the burden of all sin. ALLELUIA

With faithfulness we respond to the good news:

We acknowledge Christ as our saviour and accept with gratitude, that we are forgiven for all wrong doings, past and present. To honour the gift of forgiveness, we release our burden of guilt and rise up to live in the glory of God forever more.

Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Blessed be God forever.

Let us Pray.

The greeting

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

And also with you.

The prayer of preparation;

Let us pray.

Almighty God,

To whom all hearts are open,

All desires known,

And from whom no secrets are hidden;

cleanse the thoughts of our hearts

by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit

that we may perfectly love you,

and worthily magnify your holy name,

through Christ our Lord. Amen

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Jesus said: ‘This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: you shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

Confession

Our Lord Jesus Christ said:

Lord, have mercy on us, and write your law in our hearts by your Holy Spirit.

Let us confess our sins in penitence and faith confident in God’s forgiveness.

Merciful God,

our maker and our judge,

we have sinned against you

in thought, word, and deed;

And in what we have failed to do:
we have not loved you with our whole heart,
we have not loved our neighbours as ourselves;
we repent and are sorry for all our sins.
Father, forgive us.
Strengthen us to love and obey you

in newness of life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Assurance of Forgiveness

Almighty God, who has promised forgiveness to all who turn to him in faith, pardon you and set you free from all your sins, strengthen you in all goodness and keep you in eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Lord have mercy

Christ have mercy

God have mercy

We say the Gloria

Glory to God in the highest

and peace to God’s people on earth.

Lord God, heavenly King,

almighty God and Father,

we worship you, we give you thanks,

we praise you for your glory.

Lord Jesus Christ, only son of the Father,

Lord God, Lamb of God,

you take away the sin of the world:

have mercy on us;

you are seated at the right hand of the Father:

receive our prayer.

For you alone are the Holy One;

you alone are the Lord,

you alone are the Most High,

Jesus Christ,

with the Holy Spirit,

in the glory of God the Father.

Amen.

Let us pray

The Collect of the Day – Year B

Collect for the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost.

O God,

You give light to the blind and comfort to the sorrowing,

And in your Son, you have given us a High Priest

Who has offered the true sacrifice for us

And yet can sympathise with us in our weakness:

Hear the cry of your people and lead us home to our true country,

Where with your son and the Holy spirit

You live and reign, one GOD, in glory everlasting. Amen

Prayer of the Week

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

Almighty and everlasting GOD,

Give us the increase of faith, hope and love;

And that we may obtain what you promise,

Make us love what you command,

Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Old Testament, Scripture Reading 1

Job 42. 1-6, 10-17;

1Then Job answered the Lord:

2“I know that you can do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

3‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4‘Hear, and I will speak;

I will question you, and you declare to me.’

5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

but now my eye sees you;

6therefore I despise myself,

and repent in dust and ashes.”

10And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring. 12The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. 13He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations. 17And Job died, old and full of days.

Hear the word of the Lord

Thanks be to God.

Psalm

Psalm Psalm 34. 1-8;

New Testament, Scripture Reading 2

Hebrews 7. 21-28;

but this one became a priest with an oath, because of the one who said to him,

“The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever’;

22accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

23Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office; 24but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 25Consequently he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

26For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself. 28For the law appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

The lord be with you.

And also with you.

The Gospel reading.

The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to …..

Glory to you Lord Jesus Christ

(Make small cross signs on your own forehead, left cheek and upper chest.) GOSPEL:

MARK 9. 30-37

30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

33Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” 34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”

This is the gospel of the Lord,

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

A Short Homily on todays gospel reading

Jesus is teaching his disciples that to attempt to be the greatest is conceiving that you are an equal to those who are already great, when how does one know who is the greatest if you are only comparing by what you have learnt so far. Your awareness of life is so little in comparison with what could be learnt if you continue to open your ears and listen and learn as a child does. Without foreknowledge, without comparison, without presumption that you know already what there is to know.

Therefore, remember that each of us are just babes in arms and that to attempt to be the greatest among us is to miss an opportunity to be the child that could learn so much more from being less than great.

Let us pause for a moment to reflect.

The belief and principle is said

I believe in God,
creator of heaven and earth,

whose love and merciful forgiveness

endures everlasting.

I believe in Christ the saviour,

whose example of love and compassion,

taught us a restored way to live, in collaborative unity with all people.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

whose divine guidance brings

us together to be one with the Holy Trinity.

Amen.

The Nicene Creed

We believe in God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God, God from God, Light from Light, of one Being with the Father. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father in glory and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. Who has spoken through the Prophets.

We acknowledge the forgiveness of sins and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Prayers

Let us pray for the world and for the church.

God, we give you thanks for opening our eyes to witness your hand at work in the gifts that surround us. Thank you for your continued love and blessings in abundance throughout our lives. Bless us with your generous nature good Lord, as we answer your call to minister to your will. Guide us to walk before you in faithfulness, in righteousness and in upright honour towards you.