This week in prayer

Readings and prayers for Sunday September 11 (Pentecost 14) and the following week:  

In our diocesan cycle of prayer, we pray for Anna, our bishop; for the people of St. Matthias, Victoria, and their priest, Colleen Lissamer; and for Bishop John Stephens and the people and clergy of the  Diocese of New Westminster.

This week in the Anglican Church of Canada cycle of prayer, we remember The Most Rev. Lynne McNaughton, Metropolitan, and the clergy and people of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon.

In the worldwide Anglican Communion cycle of prayer, we pray for the Church of Bangladesh. 

Diocesan prayers for the week:

• Mon Sept 12 Marion & David Edmondson - S. John the Divine, Courtenay & S. Andrew, Sandwick
• Tues Sept 13 Blair Haggart - S. Mary Magdalene, Mayne Island
• Wed Sept 14 diocesan committee members & volunteers
• Thurs Sept 15 Ansley Tucker - Christ Church Cathedral & director of deacons (interim)
• Fri Sept 16 Bob & Sue Gill - chancellor
• Sat Sept 17 Heather Robinson - S. Dunstan, Gordon Head

Anglican Communion Cycle of Prayer for the week:

• Season of Creation
• Mon Sept 12 The Diocese of Montreal – The Anglican Church of Canada (Canada Province)
• Tues Sept 13 The Diocese of Moosonee – The Anglican Church of Canada (Ontario Province)
• Wed Sept 14 Holy Cross Day; The Diocese of Moray, Ross & Caithness – The Scottish Episcopal Church
• Thurs Sept 15 The Diocese of Port Moresby – The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
• Fri Sept 16 The Diocese of Morobo – The Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan (Central Equatoria Province)
• Sat Sept 17 The Diocese of Morogoro – The Anglican Church of Tanzania

BIBLE READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Proper 19(24) (Sunday September 11, 2022) - click links for full text of all readings for that day

• Mon Sept 12: Psalm 73; Amos 7:1-6; 1 Timothy 1:18-20
• Tues Sept 13: Psalm 73; Jonah 3:1-10; 2 Peter 3:8-13
• Wed Sept 14: Psalm 73; Job 40:6-14; 42:1-6; Luke 22:31-33, 54-62
• Thurs Sept 15: Psalm 113; Exodus 23:1-9; Romans 3:1-8
• Fri Sept 16: Psalm 113; Ezekiel 22:17-31; Romans 8:31-39
• Sat Sept 17: Psalm 113; Isaiah 5:8-23; Mark 12:41-44

General Synod news update this week

Sources:

• Diocese of BC:  website | cycle of prayer
• Ecclesiastical Province of BC & Yukon: website | cycle of prayer (included in diocesan prayers as final item in each Sunday's entry)
• Anglican Church of Canada: website | cycle of prayer
• Worldwide Anglican Communion:  website | cycle of prayer
• For daily/weekly Bible readings and liturgical notes:
  • Revised Common Lectionary
  • Daily readings from the RCL
  • why 2 sets of daily readings?
  • Online Lectionary (Anglican Church of Canada)
  • NRSV and many other searchable Bible versions at bible.oremus.org

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