Prayer for the First Sunday after Trinity

Gospel for the First Sunday after Trinity:  St. Luke 16: 19-31 http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk16.19-31

A prayer on the First Sunday after Trinity:

Lord God, heavenly Father!  We pray You to lead and rule our hearts by Your Holy Spirit, so that we would not hear Your blessed Word like the rich man, and bear no fruit, nor handle earthly goods so as to forget those that are eternal.  Instead, grant that we help the poor gladly and with mildness, according to our means, and not sin through haughtiness and extravagant living.  And where we ourselves are afflicted with the cross and misfortune, grant us not to despair, but to set all our hope on Your constant assistance and grace, and by patient endurance to overcome it all.  Amen. 

_{Johann Eichhorn (c. 1518-1564)}

_{from Ev. Luth. Gebets-Schatz}

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