Thursday –
Year 1 Proper 23
Evening Prayer
Yours is the day, O God, yours also the night; you established the moon and the sun. You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter. Psalm 74:15,16
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.
Psalm 18:
Part II
21 The Lord rewarded me because of my righteous dealing;
*
because my hands were clean he rewarded me;
22 For I have
kept the ways of the Lord *
and have not offended against my
God;
23 For all his judgments are before my eyes, *
and his
decrees I have not put away from me;
24 For I have been
blameless with him *
and have kept myself from iniquity;
25
Therefore the Lord rewarded me according to my
righteous dealing,
*
because of the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
26
With the faithful you show yourself faithful, O God; *
with the
forthright you show yourself forthright.
27 With the pure you
show yourself pure, *
but with the crooked you are wily.
28
You will save a lowly people, *
but you will humble the haughty
eyes.
29 You, O Lord, are my lamp; *
my God, you make my
darkness bright.
30 With you I will break down an enclosure;
*
with the help of my God I will scale any wall.
31 As for
God, his ways are perfect;
the words of the Lord are tried in the
fire; *
he is a shield to all who trust in him.
32 For who is
God, but the Lord? *
who is the Rock, except our God?
33 It
is God who girds me about with strength *
and makes my way
secure.
34 He makes me sure-footed like a deer *
and lets
me stand firm on the heights.
35 He trains my hands for battle
*
and my arms for bending even a bow of bronze.
36 You have
given me your shield of victory; *
your right hand also sustains
me;
your loving care makes me great.
37 You lengthen my
stride beneath me, *
and my ankles do not give way.
38 I
pursue my enemies and overtake them; *
I will not turn back till I
have destroyed them.
39 I strike them down, and they cannot
rise; *
they fall defeated at my feet.
40 You have girded
me with strength for the battle; *
you have cast down my
adversaries beneath me;
you have put my enemies to flight.
41
I destroy those who hate me;
they cry out, but there is none to
help them; *
they cry to the Lord, but he does not answer.
42
I beat them small like dust before the wind; *
I trample them like
mud in the streets.
43 You deliver me from the strife of the
peoples; *
you put me at the head of the nations.
44 A
people I have not known shall serve me;
no sooner shall they hear
than they shall obey me; *
strangers will cringe before me.
45 The foreign
peoples will lose heart; *
they shall come trembling out of their
strongholds.
46 The Lord lives! Blessed is my Rock! *
Exalted
is the God of my salvation!
47 He is the God who gave me
victory *
and cast down the peoples beneath me.
48 You
rescued me from the fury of my enemies;
you exalted me above those
who rose against me; *
you saved me from my deadly foe.
49
Therefore will I extol you among the nations, O Lord, *
and sing
praises to your Name.
50 He multiplies the victories of his
king; *
he shows loving-kindness to his anointed,
to David and
his descendants for ever.
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
‘Do not
think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come
to bring peace, but a sword.
For I have come to set a man against
his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
and one’s foes
will be members of one’s own household.
Whoever loves
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves
son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does
not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who
find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my
sake will find it.
‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.’
The Word of the
Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Canticle 17
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.
That this evening may be holy, good, and peaceful,
We entreat you, O Lord.
That your holy angels may lead us in paths of peace and goodwill,
We entreat you, O Lord.
That we may be pardoned and forgiven for our sins and offenses,
We entreat you, O Lord.
That there may be peace to your Church and to the whole world,
We entreat you, O Lord.
That
we may depart this life in your faith and fear,
and not be
condemned before the great judgment seat of Christ,
We entreat you, O Lord.
That
we may be bound together by your Holy Spirit in
the communion of
all your saints,
entrusting one another and all our life to
Christ,
We entreat you, O Lord.
Collect of the Day: Pentecost, proper 23
Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
For Protection
O God, the life of all who live, the light of the faithful, the strength of those who labor, and the repose of the dead: We thank you for the blessings of the day that is past, and humbly ask for your protection through the coming night. Bring us in safety to the morning hours; through him who died and rose again for us, your Son our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
For Mission
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 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.
The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen.
2
Corinthians 13:14