XVII Pentecost

Let Us Pray For...
Southern Virginia Chapter, AAC
Mr. Eddie Swain

Virginia Chapter, AAC
Mrs. Jan Welch

Washington, DC Chapter, AAC
Mr. Brad Hutt

Maryland Chapter, AAC
Mr. Dan Muth


Please pray for these Chapters of the American Anglican Council (District 2—Mid-Atlantic District) that God will not only use them to minister to disaffected Episcopalians, but also to other Christians who might find a home in orthodox Anglicanism, as well as seekers who do not yet know Christ as Savior and Lord.



From the Scriptures
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:13-21 (NIV)

A Guiding Prayer
O Lord, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

“The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)

A Heritage Reflection
Give me the enlarged desire,
And open, Lord, my soul,
Thy own fullness to require,
And comprehend the whole;
Stretch my faith’s capacity
Wider and yet wider still;
Then, with all that is in thee,
My soul forever fill!

Rev. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures