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Thursday after the Fifth Sunday of Easter

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The Collect of the Day

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Athanasius of Alexandria

O Lord, who established your servant Athanasius, through wisdom, in your truth: Grant that we, perceiving the humanity and divinity of your Son Jesus Christ, may follow in his footsteps and ascend the way to eternal life, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalms

74

Ut quid, Deus?BCP p. 689

1O God, why have you utterly cast us off? *why is your wrath so hot against the sheep of your pasture?

2Remember your congregation that you purchased long ago, *the tribe you redeemed to be your inheritance, and Mount Zion where you dwell.

3Turn your steps toward the endless ruins; *the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary.

4Your adversaries roared in your holy place; *they set up their banners as tokens of victory.

5They were like men coming up with axes to a grove of trees; *they broke down all your carved work with hatchets and hammers.

6They set fire to your holy place; *they defiled the dwelling-place of your Name and razed it to the ground.

7They said to themselves, “Let us destroy them altogether.” *They burned down all the meeting-places of God in the land.

8There are no signs for us to see; there is no prophet left; *there is not one among us who knows how long.

9How long, O God, will the adversary scoff? *will the enemy blaspheme your Name for ever?

10Why do you draw back your hand? *why is your right hand hidden in your bosom?

11Yet God is my King from ancient times, *victorious in the midst of the earth.

12You divided the sea by your might *and shattered the heads of the dragons upon the waters;

13You crushed the heads of Leviathan *and gave him to the people of the desert for food.

14You split open spring and torrent; *you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

15Yours is the day, yours also the night; *you established the moon and the sun.

16You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; *you made both summer and winter.

17Remember, O Lord, how the enemy scoffed, *how a foolish people despised your Name.

18Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; *never forget the lives of your poor.

19Look upon your covenant; *the dark places of the earth are haunts of violence.

20Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed; *let the poor and needy praise your Name.

21Arise, O God, maintain your cause; *remember how fools revile you all day long.

22Forget not the clamor of your adversaries, *the unending tumult of those who rise up against you.

Daily Office Readings

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2 Thess. 1:1-12

1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of everyone of you for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring. 5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. 6 For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. 11 To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lev. 19:26-37

26 You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft. 27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord. 29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the land not become prostituted and full of depravity. 30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. 31 Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. 32 You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old; and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord. 33 When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. 34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 35 You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or quantity. 36 You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and observe them: I am the Lord.

Matt. 6:25-34

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.