Sunday August 2, 2020
Ninth Sunday after pentecost
Miracles tend to be big things in our minds. But the miracles Jesus does are more often tied to the simple things of ordinary life—like food! Jesus provides the simple things of life in miraculous ways. That is one of the things the five thousand learned when Jesus took a light lunch and fed thousands. It also confronts us here in simple water that becomes the means to new and everlasting life, or in simple bread and wine that feeds us the flesh and blood of Christ, or in efficacious words that accomplish what they say. But this is also true in our daily lives, as our Good Shepherd supplies all our needs of body and soul.
READINGS
Old Testament:
Psalm:
Epistle:
Gospel:
Isaiah 55:1–5
Come, all who hunger and thirst, and the Lord will satisfy you with all that you need
Psalm 136:1-9
Romans 9:1–5 (6–13)
Paul anguishes over the people of Israel
Matthew 14:13–21
Jesus feeds the five thousand, and all were satisfied
COLLECT
It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to You, holy Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who, out of love for His fallen creation, humbled Himself by taking on the form of a servant, becoming obedient unto death, even death upon a cross. Risen from the dead, He has freed us from eternal death and given us life everlasting. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name.