Monday Year 1 Proper 15
Evening Prayer
Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Psalm 141:2
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen. Alleluia!
O gracious light,
pure brightness of the
everliving Father in heaven,
O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!
Now
as we come to the setting of the sun,
and our eyes behold the
vesper light,
we sing your praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.
You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy
voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of Life,
and to be glorified
through all the worlds.
Psalms
Psalm
106: Part II
19 Israel made a bull-calf at
Horeb *
and worshiped a molten image;
20 And so they
exchanged their Glory *
for the image of an ox that feeds on
grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, *
who had done
great things in Egypt,
22 Wonderful deeds in the land of Ham,
*
and fearful things at the Red Sea.
23 So he would have
destroyed them,
had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the
breach, *
to turn away his wrath from consuming them.
24
They refused the pleasant land *
and would not believe his
promise.
25 They grumbled in their tents *
and would not
listen to the voice of the Lord.
26 So he lifted his hand
against them, *
to overthrow them in the wilderness,
27 To cast out their seed among the nations, *
and to scatter
them throughout the lands.
28 They joined themselves to
Baal-Peor *
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29 They
provoked him to anger with their actions, *
and a plague broke out
among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, *
and
the plague came to an end.
31 This was reckoned to him as
righteousness *
throughout all generations for ever.
32
Again they provoked his anger at the waters of Meribah, *
so that
he punished Moses because of them;
33 For they so embittered his spirit *
that he spoke rash words
with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples *
as the
Lord had commanded them.
35 They intermingled with the heathen
*
and learned their pagan ways,
36 So that they worshiped
their idols, *
which became a snare to them.
37 They
sacrificed their sons *
and their daughters to evil spirits.
38
They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
*
which they offered to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was
defiled with blood.
39 Thus they were polluted by their actions *
and went whoring
in their evil deeds.
40 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was
kindled against
his people *
and he abhorred his
inheritance.
41 He gave them over to the hand of the heathen,
*
and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their
enemies oppressed them, *
and they were humbled under their
hand.
43 Many a time did he deliver them,
but they rebelled
through their own devices, *
and were brought down in their
iniquity.
44 Nevertheless, he saw their distress, *
when he
heard their lamentation.
45 He remembered his covenant with
them *
and relented in accordance with his great mercy.
46
He caused them to be pitied *
by those who held them captive.
47
Save us, O Lord our God,
and gather us from among the nations,
*
that we may give thanks to your holy Name
and glory in your
praise.
from everlasting and to everlasting; *
and
let all the people say, "Amen!"
Hallelujah!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen.
Reading
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. He said to it, ‘May no one ever eat fruit from you again.’ And his disciples heard it.
Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began
to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the
temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the
seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry
anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, ‘Is it
not written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer for
all the nations”?
But you have made it a
den of robbers.’
And when the chief priests and the
scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they
were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his
teaching. And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples*
went out of the city.
In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. Then Peter remembered and said to him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.’ Jesus answered them, ‘Have* faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, “Be taken up and thrown into the sea”, and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received* it, and it will be yours.
‘Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.’*
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God
Lord, you now have set your
servant free *
to go in peace as you have promised;
For these eyes of mine have
seen the Savior, *
whom you have prepared for all the world to
see:
A Light to enlighten the
nations, *
and the glory of your people Israel.
Glory to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Spirit
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.
I believe in God, the Father
almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his
only son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy
Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius
Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended to
the dead.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into
heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will
come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy
Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the
forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life
everlasting. Amen.
The
Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed
be your Name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth
as in heaven.
Give us today our daily
bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those
who sin
against us.
Save us from the time of
trial,
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and
the glory are yours,
now and for ever. Amen.
Show us your mercy, O Lord;
And grant us your salvation.
Clothe your ministers with righteousness;
Let your people sing with joy.
Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;
For only in you can we live in safety.
Lord, keep this nation under your care;
And guide us in the way of justice and truth.
Let your way be known upon earth;
Your saving health among all nations.
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;
Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.
Create in us clean hearts, O God;
And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.
Collect of the Day: Pentecost, proper 15
Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of this redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
A Collect for Peace
Most holy God, the source of all good desires, all right judgments, and all just works: Give to us, your servants, that peace which the world cannot give, so that our minds may be fixed on the doing of your will, and that we, being delivered from the fear of all enemies, may live in peace and quietness; through the mercies of Christ Jesus our Savior. Amen.
For Mission
Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let us pray now for our own needs and those of others.
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom
Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Glory to God whose power,
working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine:
Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in
Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20,21