Sunday Prayers – June 13, 2021

This Sunday is the Third Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday Prayers will be live-streamed to YouTube. The service will begin at 9:30, after a time of music as we enter into prayer.

The order of service is available here, to help you to fully participate.

Mustard seeds held in the palm of a hand.

Here’s what Sundays and Seasons has to say about the readings we’ll hear this week:
The mustard seed becomes a great shrub that shelters the birds, recalling ancient images of the tree of life. We’d expect a cedar or a sequoia, but Jesus finds the power of God better imaged in a tiny, no-account seed. It’s not the way we expect divine activity to look. Yet the tree of life is here, in the cross around which we gather, the tree into which we are grafted through baptism, the true vine that nourishes us with its fruit in the cup we share. It may not appear all that impressive, but while nobody’s looking it grows with a power beyond our understanding.

A mustard tree