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Monday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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The Collect of the Day

Proper 19

The Sunday closest to September 14

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Cyprian of Carthage

Almighty God, who gave to your servant Cyprian boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

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Miserere mei, DeusBCP p. 662

1Have mercy on me, O God, for my enemies are hounding me; *all day long they assault and oppress me.

2They hound me all the day long; *truly there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

3Whenever I am afraid, *I will put my trust in you.

4In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust and will not be afraid, *for what can flesh do to me?

5All day long they damage my cause; *their only thought is to do me evil.

6They band together; they lie in wait; *they spy upon my footsteps; because they seek my life.

7Shall they escape despite their wickedness? *O God, in your anger, cast down the peoples.

8You have noted my lamentation; put my tears into your bottle; *are they not recorded in your book?

9Whenever I call upon you, my enemies will be put to flight; *this I know, for God is on my side.

10In God the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust and will not be afraid, *for what can mortals do to me?

11I am bound by the vow I made to you, O God; *I will present to you thank-offerings;

12For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from stumbling, *that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

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Miserere mei, DeusBCP p. 663

1Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful, for I have taken refuge in you; *in the shadow of your wings will I take refuge until this time of trouble has gone by.

2I will call upon the Most High God, *the God who maintains my cause.

3He will send from heaven and save me; he will confound those who trample upon me; *God will send forth his love and his faithfulness.

4I lie in the midst of lions that devour the people; *their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongue a sharp sword.

5They have laid a net for my feet, and I am bowed low; *they have dug a pit before me, but have fallen into it themselves.

6Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

7My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; *I will sing and make melody.

8Wake up, my spirit; awake, lute and harp; *I myself will waken the dawn.

9I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord; *I will sing praise to you among the nations.

10For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens, *and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

11Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

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Si vere utiqueBCP p. 664

1Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers? *do you judge the peoples with equity?

2No; you devise evil in your hearts, *and your hands deal out violence in the land.

3The wicked are perverse from the womb; *liars go astray from their birth.

4They are as venomous as a serpent, *they are like the deaf adder which stops its ears,

5Which does not heed the voice of the charmer, *no matter how skillful his charming.

6O God, break their teeth in their mouths; *pull the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

7Let them vanish like water that runs off; *let them wither like trodden grass.

8Let them be like the snail that melts away, *like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

9Before they bear fruit, let them be cut down like a brier; *like thorns and thistles let them be swept away.

10The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance; *they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

11And they will say, “Surely, there is a reward for the righteous; *surely, there is a God who rules in the earth.”

Daily Office Readings

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Matt. 4:1-11

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’” 7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; 9 and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” 10 Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’” 11 Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.

1 Cor. 1:1-19

1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, 5 for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— 6 just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose. 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters. 12 What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.” 13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name. 16 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power. 18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

1 Kings 21:1-16

1 Later the following events took place: Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. 2 And Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, so that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.” 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance.” 4 Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, “I will not give you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat. 5 His wife Jezebel came to him and said, “Why are you so depressed that you will not eat?” 6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it’; but he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” 7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal; she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived with Naboth in his city. 9 She wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the assembly; 10 seat two scoundrels opposite him, and have them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out, and stone him to death.” 11 The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. Just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 12 they proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the assembly. 13 The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him; and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.” 15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Go, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” 16 As soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab set out to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.