The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sentence		I do not glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14)

Collect		O God, because 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, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Old Testament / 1st Reading		Isaiah 50:4-9a

Psalm		Psalm 116:1-9

Epistle / 2nd Reading		James 3:1-12

Gospel		Mark 8:27-38