Sunday of Moses (Ps) October 6th

Psalm 81:1-16

¹  Sing aloud to God our strength;

shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

²    Raise a song; sound the tambourine,

the sweet lyre with the harp.

³    Blow the trumpet at the new moon,

at the full moon, on our feast day.

⁴    For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule of the God of Jacob.

⁵    He made it a decree in Joseph

when he went out over the land of Egypt.

       I hear a language I had not known:

⁶    “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

⁷    In distress you called, and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸    Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!

O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

⁹    There shall be no strange god among you;

you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

¹⁰    I am the Lord your God,

who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹    “But my people did not listen to my voice;

Israel would not submit to me.

¹²    So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,

to follow their own counsels.

¹³    Oh, that my people would listen to me,

that Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁴    I would soon subdue their enemies

and turn my hand against their foes.

¹⁵    Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,

and their fate would last forever.

¹⁶    But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,

and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Our Father, you who are in heaven.

⁶⁰What is this? Answer:

With these words God wants to entice us, so that we come to believe he is truly our Father and we are truly his children, in order that we may ask him boldly and with complete confidence, just as loving children ask their loving father.

May your name be hallowed.

What is this? Answer:

It is true that God’s name is holy in itself, but we ask in this prayer that it may also become holy in and among us.

How does this come about? Answer:

Whenever the Word of God is taught clearly and purely and we, as God’s children, also live holy lives according to it. To this end help us, dear Father in heaven! However, whoever teaches and lives otherwise than the Word of God teaches profanes the name of God among us. Preserve us from this, heavenly Father!

Let Us Pray

Almighty, eternal God, in the Word of Your Apostles and prophets You have proclaimed to us Your saving will.  Grant us faith to believe Your promises that we may receive eternal salvation; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.