Scriptures and Prayer for Tuesday in the Sixth Week after Pentecost

Psalter: Psalm 18:1-6, 43-50

Old Testament: 1 Samuel 31:1-13

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 9:1-5

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Blessed Father, you are above all in gifts, and out of your giving you have taught me the way to a fuller identification of myself with you. Not only your gift of Jesus and your gift of the Spirit, but every day your gifts are given to me like manna in the wilderness. All I have belongs to you, and of my money I am only a trustee. Command its use as shall please you, and give me the experience of the giver’s joy. Let me see clearly the sin of covetousness and deepen my hatred of its practice. In the name of your unspeakable Gift be praise and dominion forever. Amen.