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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

70

Deus, in adjutoriumBCP p. 682

1Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; *O Lord, make haste to help me.

2Let those who seek my life be ashamed and altogether dismayed; *let those who take pleasure in my misfortune draw back and be disgraced.

3Let those who say to me “Aha!” and gloat over me turn back, *because they are ashamed.

4Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; *let those who love your salvation say for ever, “Great is the Lord!”

5But as for me, I am poor and needy; *come to me speedily, O God.

6You are my helper and my deliverer; *O Lord, do not tarry.

71

In te, Domine, speraviBCP p. 683

1In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge; *let me never be ashamed.

2In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free; *incline your ear to me and save me.

3Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe; *you are my crag and my stronghold.

4Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, *from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.

5For you are my hope, O Lord God, *my confidence since I was young.

6I have been sustained by you ever since I was born; from my mother’s womb you have been my strength; *my praise shall be always of you.

7I have become a portent to many; *but you are my refuge and my strength.

8Let my mouth be full of your praise *and your glory all the day long.

9Do not cast me off in my old age; *forsake me not when my strength fails.

10For my enemies are talking against me, *and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together.

11They say, “God has forsaken him; go after him and seize him; *because there is none who will save.”

12O God, be not far from me; *come quickly to help me, O my God.

13Let those who set themselves against me be put to shame and be disgraced; *let those who seek to do me evil be covered with scorn and reproach.

14But I shall always wait in patience, *and shall praise you more and more.

15My mouth shall recount your mighty acts and saving deeds all day long; *though I cannot know the number of them.

16I will begin with the mighty works of the Lord God; *I will recall your righteousness, yours alone.

17O God, you have taught me since I was young, *and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.

18And now that I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, *till I make known your strength to this generation and your power to all who are to come.

19Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; *you have done great things; who is like you, O God?

20You have showed me great troubles and adversities, *but you will restore my life and bring me up again from the deep places of the earth.

21You strengthen me more and more; *you enfold and comfort me,

22Therefore I will praise you upon the lyre for your faithfulness, O my God; *I will sing to you with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

23My lips will sing with joy when I play to you, *and so will my soul, which you have redeemed.

24My tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long, *for they are ashamed and disgraced who sought to do me harm.

Daily Office Readings

Lev. 19:26-37

A Reading from the Book of Leviticus.

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.

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.

Matt. 6:25-34

A Reading from the Gospel According to Matthew.

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.
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