Words and Songs for the Church Year

Collects
      Lord God, without you we are not able to please you; mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. BCP. Trinity 19

      Let us pray [for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.]
      God of wisdom and love, source of all good, send your Spirit to teach us your truth and guide our actions in your way of peace. We ask 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

      O God, the consoler of the afflicted, you illumine the mystery of suffering and death by the light that shines from the face of Christ: grant that, in all the trials of our earthly pilgrimage, we may remain united to your Son in his passion, so that there may be revealed in us the power of his resurrection; for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. APBA

Readings
      A dead child restored to life.   1Kings 17:17-24  
      Lord, you have changed my sorrow into joy.   Psalm 30  
      Elijah and the famine.   1Kings 17:8-16  
      While I have any being I will sing praise to my God.   Psalm 146  
      The call of the apostle Paul.   Galatians 1:11-2:10   1:11-24
      Jesus raises the widow's son.   Luke 7:11-17  

Supplementary readings
      Is meaning found in pleasure?   Ecclesiastes 2:1-11   1:12-2:2, 9-11
      Jesus' true family.   Luke 8:19-21   8:16-21

Hymns and Spiritual Songs