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Harvest Thanksgiving
Year A

Collect

Eternal God,
you crown the year with your goodness
and you give us the fruits of the earth in their season:
grant that we may use them to your glory,
for the relief of those in need and for our own well-being;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.


First Reading

Deuteronomy 8.7-18

7The LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, 8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. 10You shall eat your fill and bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you.

11Take care that you do not forget the LORD your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. 12When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, 13and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, 14then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid waste-land with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, 16and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good. 17Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gained me this wealth.’ 18But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.


Psalm 65

Refrain: Be joyful in God, all the earth.


1  Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion; *
to you that answer prayer shall vows be paid.

2  To you shall all flesh come to confess their sins; *
when our misdeeds prevail against us,
 you will purge them away. R


3  Happy are they whom you choose
 and draw to your courts to dwell there. *
We shall be satisfied with the blessings of your house, even of your holy temple. R

4  With wonders you will answer us in your righteousness,
 O God of our salvation, *
O hope of all the ends of the earth
 and of the farthest seas.

5  In your strength you set fast the mountains *
and are girded about with might. R


6  You still the raging of the seas, *
the roaring of their waves
 and the clamour of the peoples.

7  Those who dwell at the ends of the earth
 tremble at your marvels; *
the gates of the morning and evening sing your praise. R


8  You visit the earth and water it; *
you make it very plenteous.

9  The river of God is full of water; *
you prepare grain for your people,
 for so you provide for the earth. R


10  You drench the furrows and smooth out the ridges; *
you soften the ground with showers and bless its increase.

11  You crown the year with your goodness, *
and your paths overflow with plenty. R


12  May the pastures of the wilderness flow with goodness *
and the hills be girded with joy.

13  May the meadows be clothed with flocks of sheep *
and the valleys stand so thick with corn
 that they shall laugh and sing. R


Second Reading

2 Corinthians 9.6-15

6The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. 9As it is written, ‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.’ 10He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us; 12for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. 13Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them and with all others, 14while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. 15Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!


Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia. Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.
You have the words of eternal life. Alleluia.


Gospel

Luke 12.16-30

16Jesus told the people a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” 18Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” 20But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” 21So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’

22He said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 26If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! 29And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. 30For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.’


Post Communion

Lord of the harvest,
with joy we have offered thanksgiving for your love in creation
and have shared in the bread and wine of the kingdom:
by your grace plant within us a reverence for all that you give us
and make us generous and wise stewards
 of the good things we enjoy;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.






Copyright acknowledgement (where not already indicated above):

Collect (Harvest Thanksgiving) © 1989 Church of the Province of Southern Africa: An Anglican Prayer Book

Some material included in this service is copyright: © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA

Some material included in this service is copyright: © The Archbishops' Council 2000


October 4th 2026

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