The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost 2026 — Year A

Almighty God, Heavenly Father,

We, Your unworthy servants, thank You for Your act of creation, through which we live and move and have our being.

We thank You also for this time together today, gathered into Your blessed assembly.

We pray that You will grant us pardon for those times in which we have had abundance, yet, seeing the least of Your flock in need, have done nothing.

We pray that You will bless our Priest Jeffrey and our Deacon Gretchen with the peace of the Holy Spirit, so that from the pulpit and at the Lord’s table they may have confidence to speak the words of God to the people of God.

We ask this in the name of Your Son, our Savior Christ Jesus, who lives and reigns together with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen.

Observance

A.D. 2026 August 2 — The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost

Acclamations

Celebrant: Blessed be God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
People: And blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever. Amen.

Collects

Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your grace that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

Lessons

Nehemiah 9:16–21
Psalm 78:1–26 or Psalm 78:14–26
Romans 8:35–39
Matthew 14:13–21

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.