Words and Songs for the Church Year

Collects
      Lord, you have taught us that whatever we do without love is worth nothing: send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you; grant this, for your only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. BCP. Quinquagesima

      Let us pray [for a greater love of God and of our fellows]
      Lord our God, help us to love you with all our hearts and to love all people as you love them. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. AAPB

      God of compassion, you have shown us in Christ that your love is never ending: enable us both to love you with all our heart and to love one another as Christ loved us. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. APBA

Readings
      The prophet of God.   Deuteronomy 18:9-22   18:15-20
      Great and wonderful are your deeds, Lord God the Almighty.   Psalm 111  
      Food offered to idols.   1 Corinthians 8:1-13  
      The new teaching with authority.   Mark 1:21-28  

Supplementary readings
      Blessing and cursing.   Deuteronomy 11:18-28   11:18-21
      Warnings against the Antichrist.   1 John 2:18-29  

Hymns and Spiritual Songs