Sunday is the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, and we'll pray for a peaceably ordered world and for the Church to serve God in both joy and godly quietness. Sounds like our parish, doesn't it?The epistle is taken from 1 Peter 3, and is the last of the series of the General Epistles that we've been reading since Easter. It speaks of patient and peacable endurance in the face of persecution.
The gospel reading is from Matthew 5, and begins with Jesus teaching the people by the lake of Gennesaret, telling them of the higher calling - don't be just good; rather, be gloriously godly - and then the reading finishes with the miraculous catch of fish on the lake with Peter's response to the miracle.
Within both the epistle and gospel, there's a common enemy that's identified. Can you identify it?
The propers (readings) are found HERE.
