The document provides the prayers and readings for Tuesday 5th October 2021 at Sychar House of Prayer, including a first reading from Isaiah, a song, psalm, gospel reading from Luke, time for sharing, intercessions, and closing prayer asking God to help people focus on listening like Mary rather than worrying too much about serving alone like Martha.
The document provides the prayers and readings for Tuesday 5th October 2021 at Sychar House of Prayer, including a first reading from Isaiah, a song, psalm, gospel reading from Luke, time for sharing, intercessions, and closing prayer asking God to help people focus on listening like Mary rather than worrying too much about serving alone like Martha.
The document provides the prayers and readings for Tuesday 5th October 2021 at Sychar House of Prayer, including a first reading from Isaiah, a song, psalm, gospel reading from Luke, time for sharing, intercessions, and closing prayer asking God to help people focus on listening like Mary rather than worrying too much about serving alone like Martha.
The document provides the prayers and readings for Tuesday 5th October 2021 at Sychar House of Prayer, including a first reading from Isaiah, a song, psalm, gospel reading from Luke, time for sharing, intercessions, and closing prayer asking God to help people focus on listening like Mary rather than worrying too much about serving alone like Martha.
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First Reading - Isaiah 50:4-9 The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed. The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away. I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame. He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges against me? Let us face each other! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me! It is the Sovereign LORD who helps me. Who will condemn me? They will all wear out like a garment; the moths will eat them up.
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Song – Isaiah 50:7 by WARSYLIVE • I love the Lord for he has heard the cry of my appeal; for he turned his ear to me in the day when I called him. (R) Psalm - I will • They surrounded me, the snares of death, with walk in the the anguish of the tomb; they caught me, sorry and distress. I called on the Lord's name. O Lord presence of my God, deliver me! (R) God in the • How gracious is the Lord, and just; our God has compassion. The Lord protects the simple land of the hearts; I was helpless so he saved me. (R) living • He has kept my soul from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling. I will walk in the presence of the Lord in the land of the living. (R) Gospel Reading Luke 10:38-42 Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” Silence Sharing Our Father and Sign of Peace
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• For peace in the world and the liberation of all people, Lord, we pray. • That the leaders of the Churches may tirelessly seek visible unity among Christians, Lord, we pray. • For honesty in political life, for justice in society, Lord, we pray. • For those who toil to earn their daily bread, Lord, we pray, Intercessions • For those without work or resources, Lord, we pray. • For those with no family or home, Lord, we pray. • For those who suffer from loneliness or abandonment, Lord, we pray. • For those who are oppressed or maligned, Lord, we pray. • For those who work with the poor, with foreigners and with the excluded, Lord, we pray. Closing Prayer • Like Martha, who welcomed Jesus into her home, we are worried and distracted by many things. Hear those worries, Oh God, and take them as our prayer. We praise you for the way you love us–a way that calls us to sit and to listen as well as to go and to serve. Remind us that we have not been left to do the work by ourselves, for you are with us along the way.