Wednesday –
Year 1
Proper 28
Morning
Prayer
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14
Lord, open our lips.
And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
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.
Be joyful in the
Lord, all you lands;
serve the Lord with gladness
and come
before his presence with a song.
Know this: The
Lord himself is God;
he himself has made us, and we are his;
we
are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates
with thanksgiving;
go into his courts with praise;
give thanks
to him and call upon his Name.
For the Lord is
good;
his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures
from age to age.
101
1 I will
sing of mercy and justice; *
to you, O Lord, will I sing
praises.
2 I will strive to follow a blameless course;
oh,
when will you come to me? *
I will walk with sincerity of heart
within my house.
3 I will set no worthless thing before my
eyes; *
I hate the doers of evil deeds;
they shall not remain
with me.
4 A crooked heart shall be far from me; *
I will
not know evil.
5 Those who in secret slander their neighbors I
will destroy; *
those who have a haughty look and a proud heart I
cannot abide.
6 My eyes are upon the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me, *
and only those who lead a blameless
life shall be my servants.
7 Those who act deceitfully shall
not dwell in my house, *
and those who tell lies shall not
continue in my sight.
8 I will soon destroy all the wicked in
the land, *
that I may root out all evildoers from the city of the
Lord.
109
1 Hold not your
tongue, O God of my praise; *
for the mouth of the wicked,
the
mouth of the deceitful, is opened against me.
2 They speak to me with a lying tongue; *
they encompass me
with hateful words
and fight against me without a cause.
3
Despite my love, they accuse me; *
but as for me, I pray for
them.
4 They repay evil for good, *
and hatred for my
love.
(5 Set a wicked man against him, *
and
let an accuser stand at his right hand.
6 When he is judged,
let him be found guilty, *
and let his appeal be in vain.
7
Let his days be few, *
and let another take his office.
8
Let his children be fatherless, *
and his wife become a widow.
9
Let his children be waifs and beggars; *
let them be driven from
the ruins of their homes.
10 Let the creditor seize everything
he has; *
let strangers plunder his gains.
11 Let there be
no one to show him kindness, *
and none to pity his fatherless
children.
12 Let his descendants be destroyed, *
and his
name be blotted out in the next generation.
13 Let the
wickedness of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, *
and his
mother's sin not be blotted out;
14 Let their sin be always
before the Lord; *
but let him root out their names from the
earth;
15 Because he did not remember to show
mercy, *
but persecuted the poor and needy
and sought to kill
the brokenhearted.
16 He loved cursing,
let it come upon
him; *
he took no delight in blessing,
let it depart from
him.
17 He put on cursing like a garment, *
let it soak
into his body like water
and into his bones like oil;
18
Let it be to him like the cloak which he
wraps around himself,
*
and like the belt that he wears continually.
19 Let this
be the recompense from the Lord to my accusers, *
and to those who
speak evil against me.)
20 But you, O Lord my
God,
oh, deal with me according to your Name; *
for your tender
mercy's sake, deliver me.
21 For I am poor and needy, *
and
my heart is wounded within me.
22 I have faded away like a
shadow when it lengthens; *
I am shaken off like a locust.
23
My knees are weak through fasting, *
and my flesh is wasted and
gaunt.
24 I have become a reproach to them; *
they see and
shake their heads.
25 Help me, O Lord my God; *
save me for
your mercy's sake.
26 Let them know that this is your hand, *
that you, O Lord,
have done it.
27 They may curse, but you will bless; *
let
those who rise up against me be put to shame,
and your servant
will rejoice.
28 Let my accusers be clothed with disgrace
*
and wrap themselves in their shame as in a cloak.
29 I
will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth; *
in the midst
of the multitude will I praise him;
30 Because he stands at
the right hand of the needy, *
to save his life from those who
would condemn him.
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.
Now Judas and his brothers saw that misfortunes had increased and
that the forces were encamped in their territory. They also learned
what the king had commanded to be done to the people to cause their
final destruction. But they said to one another, ‘Let us
restore the ruins of our people, and fight for our people and the
sanctuary.’ So the congregation assembled to be ready for
battle, and to pray and ask for mercy and compassion.
Jerusalem
was uninhabited like a wilderness;
not one of
her children went in or out.
The sanctuary was trampled
down,
and aliens held the citadel;
it
was a lodging-place for the Gentiles.
Joy was taken from
Jacob;
the flute and the harp ceased to play.
Then they gathered together and went to Mizpah, opposite
Jerusalem, because Israel formerly had a place of prayer in Mizpah.
They fasted that day, put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on their
heads, and tore their clothes. And they opened the book of the law to
inquire into those matters about which the Gentiles consulted the
images of their gods. They also brought the vestments of the
priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up
the nazirites*
who had completed their days; and they cried aloud to Heaven,
saying,
‘What shall we do with these?
Where
shall we take them?
Your sanctuary is trampled down and
profaned,
and your priests mourn in humiliation.
Here the Gentiles are assembled against us to destroy us;
you
know what they plot against us.
How will we be able to withstand
them,
if you do not help us?’
Then they sounded the trumpets and gave a loud shout. After this Judas appointed leaders of the people, in charge of thousands and hundreds and fifties and tens. Those who were building houses, or were about to be married, or were planting a vineyard, or were faint-hearted, he told to go home again, in accordance with the law. Then the army marched out and encamped to the south of Emmaus.
And Judas said, ‘Arm yourselves and be courageous. Be ready early in the morning to fight with these Gentiles who have assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary. It is better for us to die in battle than to see the misfortunes of our nation and of the sanctuary. But as his will in heaven may be, so shall he do.’
The Word of the
Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Canticle 11 The Third Song of Isaiah
Arise, shine, for your light has come, *
and the glory of the Lord has dawned upon you.
For behold, darkness covers the land; *
deep gloom enshrouds the peoples.
But over you the Lord will rise, *
and his glory will appear upon you.
Nations will stream to your light, *
and kings to the brightness of your dawning.
Your gates will always be open; *
by day or night they will never be shut.
They will call you, The City of the Lord, *
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Violence will no more be heard in your land, *
ruin or destruction within your borders.
You will call your walls, Salvation, *
and all your portals, Praise.
The sun will no more be your light by day; *
by night you will not need the brightness of the moon.
The Lord will be your everlasting light, *
and
your God will be your glory.
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
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ And in the spirit* he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. It has the glory of God and a radiance like a very rare jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal. It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites; on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
The angel* who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width; and he measured the city with his rod, fifteen hundred miles;* its length and width and height are equal. He also measured its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits* by human measurement, which the angel was using. The wall is built of jasper, while the city is pure gold, clear as glass. The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth cornelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl, and the street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass.
The Word of the
Lord.
Thanks
be to God.
Canticle 16
Blessed be the
Lord, the God of Israel;*
he has come to his people and set them
free.
He has raised up
for us a mighty savior,*
born of the house of his servant
David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old,
that he would
save us from our enemies,*
from the hands of all who hate us.
he promised to
show mercy to our fathers*
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath
he swore to our father Abraham,*
to set us free from the hands of
our enemies,
Free to worship
him without fear,*
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days
of our life.
You, my child,
shall be called the prophet of the Most High,*
for you will go
before the Lord to prepare his way,
To give his
people knowledge of salvation*
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender
compassion of our God*
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
To
shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,*
and
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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.
Save your people, Lord, and bless your inheritance;
Govern and uphold them, now and always.
Day by day we bless you;
We praise your name for ever.
Lord, keep us from all sin today;
Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy.
Lord, show us your love and mercy;
For we put our trust in you.
In you, Lord, is our hope;
And we shall never hope in vain.
Collect of the Day: Pentecost, proper 28
Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
A Collect for Peace
O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries; through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A
Collect for
those in the Armed Forces of our Country
Almighty
God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and
women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day
with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and
temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them;
and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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.
General Thanksgiving
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. 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