Readings: Proper 28, Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

THE COLLECT PRINTED above, which I love for its language, is Proper 28 of the Book of Common Prayer. It is the prayer appointed for the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (aka “The Sunday closest to Nov. 16.”

This year, in addition, it’s the second to last Sunday of the Church Year (that date moves along with that of Easter).

Usually, reflecting the pretty widely sprea

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