Observance
World Mission Sunday
The 4th Day of February, Anno Domini 2018
Sunday, Holy Day and Commemoration Lectionary — Year B
Liturgical Colors: Green
Personal Reflections
Today, I was baptized by the Reverend Brian B. Chaffee, M.Div at Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.”
— Romans 6:5-8
The collect, psalms and lessons for World Mission Sunday may be substituted for any Sunday of Epiphany except the first or last.
Acclamations
I will make you as a light for the nations,
That my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.
Collects
O Lord, our heavenly Father, keep your household the Church continually in your true religion, that we who trust in the hope of your heavenly grace may always be defended by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever.
Amen.
or
Almighty God, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, you revealed the way of eternal life to every race and nation: Pour out this gift anew, that by the preaching of the Gospel your salvation may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Lessons
II Kings 4:8–37 or II Kings 4:8–21, 32–37
Psalm 142
I Corinthians 9:16–23
Mark 1:29–39
or
Genesis 12:1–3
Psalm 86:8–13
Revelation 7:9–17
Matthew 28:16–20
Prefaces
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who on the first day of the week overcame death and the grave, and by his glorious resurrection opened to us the way of everlasting life.
or
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who took on our mortal flesh to reveal his glory; that he might bring us out of darkness and into his own glorious light.
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