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(~) Bible Readings for Sunday August 14

Isaiah 56:1(2-5)6-7
Romans 11:13-15,29-32
Matthew 15:21-28

Old Testament Isaiah 56:1(2-5)6-7

Thus says the LORD:
Maintain justice, and do what is right,
for soon my salvation will come,
and my deliverance be revealed.
[Happy is the mortal who does this,
the one who holds it fast,
who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it,
and refrains from doing any evil.
Do not let the foreigner joined to the LORD say,
"The LORD will surely separate me from his people";
and do not let the eunuch say,
"I am just a dry tree."
For thus says the LORD:
To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
I will give, in my house and within my walls,
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.]
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the sabbath, and do not profane it,
and hold fast my covenant--
these I will bring to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.

The Epistle Romans 11:13-15,29-32

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the
Gentiles, I glorify my ministry in order to make my own people jealous,
and thus save some of them. For if their rejection is the reconciliation
of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead! For
the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Just as you were once
disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their
disobedience, so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the
mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. For God has imprisoned
all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.


The Gospel Matthew 15:21-28

Jesus left Gennesaret and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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." 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." He
answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But
she came