Life does not consist in the abundance of possessions

Collect for Proper 13C
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives…

#blacklivesmatter, #dallasstrong, and loving our neighbors

Love is more than a hashtag. Love is seeing each other. Seeing each other and not passing by on the other side of the street. Seeing each other with compassion, and empathy, and that feeling in the pit of our stomach that knows…

The harvest is plentiful

Collect for Proper 9C

O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through…

to make the word of God fully known

Collect for Proper 11C

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not…

Bear fruit in every good work

Collect for Proper 10C

O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus…

Search, And You Will Find

Collect for Proper 12C

O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not…