Sunday Lectionary Readings

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The Collect

Corpus Christi
God our Father, whose Son our Lord Jesus Christ in a wonderful Sacrament has left us a memorial of his passion: Grant us so to venerate the sacred mysteries of his Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of his redemption; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Preface of the Incarnation

Old Testament Reading

Genesis 14:18-20
¹⁸Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. ¹⁹And he blessed him and said: " Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; ²⁰And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all. -- NKJV

Psalm

Psalm 110
^{A Psalm of David.}
¹The LORD said to my Lord,
"Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."

²The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.
Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

³Your people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your power;
In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning,
You have the dew of Your youth.

⁴The LORD has sworn
And will not relent,
"You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek."

⁵The Lord is at Your right hand;
He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.

⁶He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
He shall execute the heads of many countries.

⁷He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He shall lift up the head.
-- NKJV

New Testament Reading

1 Corinthians 11:23-26
²³For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; ²⁴and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me." ²⁵In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." ²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes. -- NKJV

Gospel Reading

Luke 9:11b-17
¹¹But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing. ¹²When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here." ¹³But He said to them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people." ¹⁴For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty." ¹⁵And they did so, and made them all sit down. ¹⁶Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. ¹⁷So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them. -- NKJV

The Preface

Preface of the Incarnation
To be used on Sundays and weekdays alike, except as otherwise appointed for Holy Days and Various Occasions
Because thou didst give Jesus Christ, thine only Son, to be born for us; who, by the mighty power of the Holy Ghost, was made very Man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother; that we might be delivered from the bondage of sin, and receive power to become thy children.

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