10th Sunday After Pentecost, August 17, 2014

The Collect

Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of this redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Reflections: Sacrifice and example. Christ didn’t live and die so we don’t have to. He invites us into his self-offering so that we might live in him in our daily lives by sharing in the redeeming work of sacrificial love. Entering into Christ we discover that holiness is not something apart from our lives. It is the very fabric.