Weekly Reading: Proper 26

• First reading and Psalm
  
  • Revelation 7:9-17
    
  • Psalm 34:1-10, 22
    
• Second reading
  
  • 1 John 3:1-3
    
• Gospel
  
  • Matthew 5:1-12
    

Prayer: Father, I thank you that I can be called your child, help me, I pray, to live in such a way that I reflect what it means to be a member of your family. And after my work here is done may I be blessed to join with the throngs of saints above, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.