Everybody Back To Work
Well, I gotta write my sermon some time, don’t I?
July 10 is my Sunday to preach, my plate is full, the calendar is blocked every day this week while Joe visits, so the wee hours this morning were for sermon prep instead of +Time.
Sermon preparation begins with wondering What to Preach About --
Something about the season?
The theology of the Collect for the Day?
Something from the Lectionary for Proper 10?
Something about the wars?
Doctrine: the Trinity again? Groan.
Election politics that are heating up? Maybe not.
Just tell stories?
It’s preacher’s choice in the Episcopal Church, and there are many possibilities. Trinity, Apalachicola had such a fine music program that I always thought one Sunday we would listen to Brahms instead of a sermon. Never got round to it though.
Here are the lessons for July 10, the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 10.
Genesis 25:19-34
Psalm 19:105-112
Romans 8:1-11
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Suspicious roused, first thing of course is to read Matthew 13:10-17 and see why they left it out. I’ll do that now.
Meantime, here’s the Collect for the Day.
Proper 10 The Sunday closest to July 13
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 Christ
our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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 Christ
our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Note that it isn’t in full and proper classical format: it’s missing the usual form of address.
Yes, the flag is still there. May it always be there.
Fourth of July weekend is over. Everybody back to work.
TW+