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The Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, the church service included acclamations, a collect for mercy and protection, readings from Isaiah, Psalms, Hebrews, and Luke, and a preface celebrating Christ’s resurrection and everlasting life.
The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. The 17th of August Anno Domini 2025. Holy Day and Commemoration Lectionary — Year C. Proper 15. Liturgical Colors: Green.
A prayer is offered for guidance to follow God, thanking faithful ministers and asking for peace. The assembly reflects on faith, love, and hope, rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Lessons from scripture follow.
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.
Service for Sunday, 29 June A.D. 2025
Almighty God, whose blessed apostles Peter and Paul glorified you by their martyrdom: Grant that your Church, instructed by their teaching and example, and knit together in unity by your Spirit, may ever stand firm upon the one foundation, which is Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Service for Sunday, 22 June A.D. 2025
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Service for Sunday, 15 June A.D. 2025
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Service for Sunday, 8 June A.D. 2025
Through Jesus Christ our Lord; according to whose most true promise, the Holy Spirit came down from heaven, lighting upon the disciples, to teach them and to lead them into all truth, giving them boldness and fervent zeal constantly to preach the Gospel to all nations; by which we have been brought out of darkness and error into the clear light and true knowledge of you, and of your Son Jesus Christ.
Service for Sunday, 1 June A.D. 2025
Through your dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who after his most glorious resurrection appeared to his Apostles, and in their sight ascended into heaven to prepare a place for us; that where he is, there we might also ascend, and reign with him in glory.
Ascension Day on May 29, 2025, is a holy day marked by lectionary readings, acclamations celebrating Christ’s resurrection, and prayers emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ ascension to heaven.