The Congregation at Prayer

A Guide for Daily Meditation and Prayer

For the Week of the Ninth Sunday after Trinity

August 1 through August 7, 2010

The Order of Meditation and Prayer

Pray and confess out loud as much from the order of meditation and prayer as you are able, or as your family size and ages dictate. Learn by heart the verse, catechism, and hymn of the week.

Theme: God Rescues Us From Evil

Invocation

In the name of the Father and of the Son ✠ and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and ✠ the life everlasting. Amen.

Verse: Genesis 2:17

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Psalm 54 and/or the appointed daily psalms listed below.

Daily Psalm	Morning	Evening
Sunday	10	11,12
Monday	14,15	13
Tuesday	18	16,17
Wednesday	19,20	21
Thursday	22	23,24
Friday	26,27	25
Saturday	30	28,29

The Catechism: The Lord’s Prayer

What is the Seventh Petition?

But deliver us from evil.

What does this mean?

We pray in this petition, in summary, that our Father in heaven would rescue us from every evil of body and soul, possessions and reputation, and finally, when our last hour comes, give us a blessed end, and graciously take us from this valley of sorrow to Himself in heaven.

Readings for the Week

Day	Reading
Monday	Paul Appears before King Agrippa—Acts 25:13-26:32
Tuesday	Paul’s Voyage to Rome Begins—Acts 27:1-12
Wednesday	Paul Ship Is Caught in Violent Seas— Acts 27:13-28:10
Thursday	Paul Ministry at Rome—Acts 28:11-31
Friday	Catch Up on Readings or Look Ahead to Sunday
Saturday	Catch Up on Readings or Look Ahead to Sunday

Prayers: Collect for the Week, In Our Prayers at St. Paul

Collect for the Week of the Ninth Sunday after Trinity:

Let Your merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of Your humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions, make them to ask such things as shall please You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

In Our Prayers this Week

Ann Kelley

Hospitalized: Anita Baumfalk

Illness/ Afflictions: Loree Crouse, don Lindblom- father of Mike Lindblom. Larry Nave, Eunice Oltmans, Boyd Smith, Arlo Sohl

Deaths: Judy Schwarz

Serving in Military: Timothy Starnes

Lord’s Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Morning Prayer

Evening Prayer

I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.

I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept me this day; and I pray that You would forgive me all my sins where I have done wrong, and graciously keep me this night. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.

Hymn of the Week

“What Is the World to Me”

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Looking forward to Trinity 10

August 8, 2010

Hymns:	797, 644, 868, 618, 912
Lessons:	Jeremiah 8:4-12; Romans 9:30-10:4; Luke 19:41-48