Sunday, September 30, 2012
Proper 21 The Sunday closest to September 28
O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing
mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we,
running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of
your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for
ever and ever. Amen.
mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we,
running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of
your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for
ever and ever. Amen.
At least one scholar says that the phrase “mercy and pity” literally translates “sparing and showing compassion,” which sounds like a very good God. Dating from the earliest centuries of the Church, the theology of this collect for today is that God’s almightiness shows not most powerfully in the magnificence of creation, but in lovingkindness. This sounds like a very good God indeed.
TW+