The Book of Common Prayer Table of
contents
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after
Trinity
The Collect
O Lord, we beseech
thee, absolve thy people from their offences; that through thy
bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the bands of those
sins, which by our frailty we have committed: Grant this, O
heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed Lord and
Saviour. Amen.
The Epistle
Colossians 1.3-12
We give thanks to
God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for
you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
which ye have to all the saints; for the hope which is laid up for
you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of
the Gospel; which is come unto you, as it is in all the world, and
bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye
heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth. As ye also learned
of Epaphras, our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful
minister of Christ; who also declared unto us your love in the
Spirit. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not
cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with
the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding: that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his
glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with
joyfulness; giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
The Gospel
St. Matthew 9.18-26
While Jesus spake
these things unto John's disciples, behold, there came a certain
ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead;
but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. And Jesus
arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples. (And behold, a
woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came
behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: for she said within
herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But
Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be
of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was
made whole from that hour.) And when Jesus came into the ruler's
house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, he said
unto them, Give place; for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And
they laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put forth, he
went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. And the fame
hereof went abroad into all that land.
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