20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 16 from the collect/opening prayer (NZPB)
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 16 from the collect/opening prayer (Roman Catholic)
Proper 15 August 16 from the collect/opening prayer (BCP TEC)
Image: Mosaic panel on the left (north) wall of the apse of the Church of St. Vitale, Ravenna, depicting Emperor Justinian, clothed in full regalia and standing in the center of a retinue of clergy, officials and soldiers (flanked on the right by Bishop Maximian), bringing the bread of the Eucharist to the altar. From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32148 [retrieved August 10, 2009].