August 20, 2023 The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

<p><strong>Entrance Hymn #410 <em>Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven</em></strong></p><p><strong>Sequence Hymn #533 <em>How Wondrous and Great Thy Works</em></strong></p><p><strong>Offertory Anthem <em>“Simple Song: from&nbsp;</em>Mass&nbsp;<em>(Bernstein)&nbsp;</em></strong><em>Sarah Izzi Hamel, Soloist</em></p><p><strong>Communion Anthem <em>Hear My Cry, O God (Franck) </em></strong><em>Sarah Izzi Hamel, Soloist</em></p><p><strong> Post-Communion Hymn #371 <em>Thou, Whose Almighty Word</em></strong></p><p><strong>THE COLLECT OF THE DAY</strong></p><p>Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.</p><p><strong>FIRST READING&nbsp;<em>Isaiah 56:1,6-8</em></strong></p><p>Thus says the LORD: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and</p><p>my deliverance be revealed.</p><p>And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of</p><p>the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the sabbath, and do not profane it, and hold fast my covenant--these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.</p><p>Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.</p><p><strong>PSALM&nbsp;<em>Psalm 67 Deus misereatur&nbsp;</em></strong>1&nbsp;May God be merciful to us and bless us, *</p><p>show us the light of his countenance and come to us.</p><p>2&nbsp;Let your ways be known upon earth, * your saving health among all nations.</p><p>3&nbsp;Let the peoples praise you, O God; * let all the peoples praise you.</