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Join us for Morning Prayer! Tuesday May 18th
With Ros Appleby

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Tuesday May 18th : Our morning prayer is presented by Ros Appleby in Birkenhead, England. In this last week of Easter, leading up to the feast of Pentecost, we are inspired today by the example of the apostle Paul, who, fired up with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, spreads the Good News to the people of Ephesus, despite being aware of the trials that lay before him.

“I have without faltering put before you the whole of God’s purpose.” – Acts 20:17-27

Morning Prayer May 18th

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Art: The Preaching of Saint Paul at Ephesus by Eustache Le Sueur (1649)

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First reading Acts 20:17-27 ©

I have without faltering put before you the whole of God’s purpose

From Miletus Paul sent for the elders of the church of Ephesus. When they arrived he addressed these words to them:
  ‘You know what my way of life has been ever since the first day I set foot among you in Asia, how I have served the Lord in all humility, with all the sorrows and trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews. I have not hesitated to do anything that would be helpful to you; I have preached to you, and instructed you both in public and in your homes, urging both Jews and Greeks to turn to God and to believe in our Lord Jesus.
  ‘And now you see me a prisoner already in spirit; I am on my way to Jerusalem, but have no idea what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit, in town after town, has made it clear enough that imprisonment and persecution await me. But life to me is not a thing to waste words on, provided that when I finish my race I have carried out the mission the Lord Jesus gave me – and that was to bear witness to the Good News of God’s grace.
  ‘I now feel sure that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will ever see my face again. And so here and now I swear that my conscience is clear as far as all of you are concerned, for I have without faltering put before you the whole of God’s purpose.’

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