Prayer, Attention, Relationship

  • “Exegesis is loving God enough to stop and listen carefully to what God says.” — Eugene Peterson, “Eat This Book”

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Prayer of Sacred Reading and Listening (Lectio Divina), Monday , August 10 2026, 9:00am

 Zoom Meeting ID: 814 8663 8380        Passcode: scripture

Link:   https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81486638380pwd=elNs








                       The Canaanite Woman asks for healing for her daughter.                    




Matthew 15:17-28

17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile." 21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon." 23 But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us."24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 26 He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." 27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed from that moment.





The Lord’s Prayer in Three Voices



Voice 1 Our Father who art in Heaven

Voice 2         Holy One beyond all names, Eternal Wellspring

Voice 3 O Great Spirit, our Father from above,

Voice 1 Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come


Voice 2 May love rise again in us today 

Voice 3 we honor your name as sacred and holy.


Voice 1 thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven

Voice 2 with food for every table, shelter for every person,

Voice 3 Bring your good road to us,  where the beauty of your ways in the  

  spirit-world  above is reflected in the earth below.

Voice 1 Give us this day our daily bread


Voice 2 and reverence for every living being. 


Voice 3         Provide for us day by day--the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon.  The corn, 


the squash, and the wild rice. All the  things we need for each day.

Voice 1 Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us


Voice 2 Forgive us our failings in love,  and free us from all  falseness,  


Voice 3 Release us from the things we have done wrong, 

in the same way we release others  for the things done wrong to us.

Voice 1 and Lead us not into temptation,


Voice 2 that the light of our souls may shine  


Voice 3        Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road

Voice 1      but deliver us from evil


Voice 2      and help the strength of our spirits endure for earth and all its people


Voice 3  and set us free from the evil one & his worthless ways.

Voice 1 For the kingdom, the power, & the glory are yours forever


Voice 2 this day, tonight,  and forever.  

Voice 1      Amen!


Voice 2   Yes, I commit! 

Voice 3   Aho! May it be so!


Texts  from  Matthew 6: 9-13 (NRSV),  

"Celtic Benediction," by John Phillip Newell,        

First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.


Closing Prayer


God of the foreigner and outcast,
your arms reach out to embrace
all those who call upon you.
Teach us as disciples of Christ
so to love the world
that your name may be known
throughout the earth. Amen.

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