30th October 2022 Twentieth After Trinity – Fourth before Advent

Collect God, our light and our salvation: illuminate our lives, that we may see your goodness in the land of the living, and looking on your beauty may be changed into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord. Isaiah 1. 10-18 10Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our

23rd October 2022 Nineteenth After Trinity

Collect Faithful Lord, whose steadfast love never ceases and whose mercies never come to an end: grant us the grace to trust you and to receive the gifts of your love, new every morning, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Ecclus. 35. 12-17 12Give to the Most High as he has given to you, and as

16th October 2022 Eighteenth After Trinity

Collect God, our judge and saviour, teach us to be open to your truth and to trust in your love, that we may live each day with confidence in the salvation which is given through Jesus Christ our Lord. Genesis 32. 22-31 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two

9th October 2022 Seventeenth After Trinity

Collect Gracious God, you call us to fullness of life: deliver us from unbelief and banish our anxieties with the liberating love of Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 Kings 5. 1-3, 7-15c Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by

2nd October 2022 Sixteenth After Trinity

Collect Lord of creation, whose glory is around and within us: open our eyes to your wonders, that we may serve you with reverence and know your peace at our lives’ end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Habakkuk 1. 1-4; 2. 1-4 1The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw.2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,

25th September 2022 Fifteenth After Trinity

Collect Lord God, defend your Church from all false teaching and give to your people knowledge of your truth, that we may enjoy eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amos 6. 1a, 4-7 Alas for those who are at ease in Zion, and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria,the notables of the first

18th September 2022 Fourteenth After Trinity

Collect Merciful God, your Son came to save us and bore our sins on the cross: may we trust in your mercy and know your love, rejoicing in the righteousness that is ours through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amos 8. 4-7 4Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of

11th September 2022 Thirteenth After Trinity

Collect Almighty God, you search us and know us: may we rely on you in strength and rest on you in weakness, now and in all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Exodus 32. 7-14                                                                                                                   7The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt,

4th September 2022 Twelfth After Trinity

Collect God of constant mercy, who sent your Son to save us: remind us of your goodness, increase your grace within us, that our thankfulness may grow, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Deuteronomy 30. 15-end 15 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. 16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that

28th August 2022 Eleventh After Trinity

Collect God of glory, the end of our searching, help us to lay aside all that prevents us from seeking your kingdom, and to give all that we have to gain the pearl beyond all price, through our Saviour Jesus Christ. Proverbs 25. 6-7 6Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand