The Book of Common Prayer Table of
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The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
The Collect
Almighty and
everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we are to
pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve:
Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those
things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good
things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and
mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle
2 Corinthians 3.4-9
Such trust have we
through Christ to Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves
to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God:
who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of
the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the
spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death written and
engraven in stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel
could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance, which glory was to be done away; how shall not the
ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the
ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the
ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
The Gospel
St. Mark 7.31-end
Jesus, departing
from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, came unto the sea of Galilee,
through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring unto
him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and
they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside
from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit,
and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and
saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his
ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he
spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man: but
the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they
published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath
done all things well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb
to speak.
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