God Most Holy, you fill heaven and earth;
where can we go to hide from you?
May our strength be in you, God;
fill our hearts with desire
for your kingdom.
Were we to gain the whole world,
how would that profit us
without you?
Discipline us, that our aim
may be to make you
first in our lives.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32
Jer. 23:16-32
1 Cor. 9:19-27
Mark 8:31-9:1
Selected Verses
Ps. 84:5
Happy are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Jer. 23:24
Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
1 Cor. 9:26-27
So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
Mark 8:36-37
For what will it profit [people] to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? …” [Jesus, to his disciples and the crowd]
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