Pentecost 22

Lectionary Bible Readings

Job 42:1-6,10-17

Psalm 34:1-8

Hebrews 7:23-28

Mark 10: 46-52

The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

We should see ourselves both as the blind man -- in need of the divine miracle so that we can be saved and follow Jesus on the way; and as members of the crowd who need to share the news about Jesus with people who are on the "side of the way" -- the outsiders." http://www.crossmarks.com/brian/mark10x46.htm

Please pray for

• for the National and Liberal Parties to reach a significant agreement to act on climate change prior to the Prime Minister’s attendance at COP26 next month in Glasgow
• for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and their families; we acknowledge and lament the complicity of the church and pray for healing. Last Friday 22 October was the 3^rd anniversary of the National Apology to Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse

Giving thanks during COVID-19

I would like to offer a brief prayer of thanksgiving that I have relied upon heavily, especially throughout the past year as we have suffered as a community, and as a nation, and as a world, in so many ways:

We Asked

Loving Creator,

We asked for strength, and you gave us difficulties to make us strong.

We asked for wisdom, and you gave us problems to solve.

We asked for prosperity, and you gave us purpose and brains to use.

We asked for courage, and you gave us fears to overcome.

We asked for patience, and you gave us situations where we were forced to wait.

We asked for love, and you gave us troubled people to help.

We asked for justice, and you called us to be just and lead with integrity.

Lord, we have received nothing that we asked for or wanted.

And yet, we receive everything that we needed.

For this we give thanks.

- By Colleen Hanycz, PhD incoming President at Xavier University

https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/prayer-index/coronavirus-prayers