Grace: It's Our Way of Life

As Episcopal Christians we
Worship at home daily and together weekly;
Study the Scriptures, our tradition, and what it means to be a disciple today;
Serve our families, our parish, and our world in the name of Christ.

Everything we do is done with an ethic of Welcome
because we are only here by Grace.

08 November 2015

The Sacrament of the Poor - Twenty Fourth Sunday After Pentecost - 8 November 2015 - Year B - Proper 27

Homeless woman with dogs  | Originally uploaded by Franco Folini



The Very Rev Daniel P Richards proclaims the widow's mite story in the context of Jesus' revolutionary view of having everyone being viewed as a child of God rather than the categories that we as humans seem to want to place people. Can we see the poor?  Can we see the poor as children of God?

From the Revised Common Lectionary - Click here
Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
Psalm 127
Hebrews 9:24-28
Mark 12:38-44

The Collect

O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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