The Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity

by CCW | 20 September 2020 01:00

The collect for today, the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, from The Book of Common Prayer [1](Canadian, 1962):

Hans Holbein the Younger, Death and the Miser[2]KEEP, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: Galatians 6:11-18[3]
The Gospel: St. Matthew 6:24-34[4]

Artwork: Hans Holbein the Younger, Death and the Miser (from The Dance of Death[5]), 1538. Woodcut, British Museum, London.

Endnotes:
  1. The Book of Common Prayer : http://prayerbook.ca/resources/bcponline/propers/#trinity15
  2. [Image]: http://christchurchwindsor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HolbeinYounger_DeathAndTheMiser.jpg
  3. Galatians 6:11-18: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians%206:11-18;&version=ESVUK;
  4. St. Matthew 6:24-34: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%206:24-34;&version=ESVUK;
  5. The Dance of Death: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hans-holbeins-dance-of-death-1523-5

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