Daily Readings: October 16, 2022

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Morning	Evening
Psalm 148 Psalm 149 Psalm 150	Psalm 114 Psalm 115
Ecclus. 4:1-10 1 Cor. 10:1-13 Matt. 16:13-20

The Collect of the Day

Proper 24

The Sunday closest to October 19

Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

148

Laudate DominumBCP p. 805

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; *praise him in the heights.

²Praise him, all you angels of his; *praise him, all his host.

³Praise him, sun and moon; *praise him, all you shining stars.

⁴Praise him, heaven of heavens, *and you waters above the heavens.

⁵Let them praise the Name of the Lord; *for he commanded, and they were created.

⁶He made them stand fast for ever and ever; *he gave them a law which shall not pass away.

⁷Praise the Lord from the earth, *you sea-monsters and all deeps;

⁸Fire and hail, snow and fog, *tempestuous wind, doing his will;

⁹Mountains and all hills, *fruit trees and all cedars;

¹⁰Wild beasts and all cattle, *creeping things and wingèd birds;

¹¹Kings of the earth and all peoples, *princes and all rulers of the world;

¹²Young men and maidens, *old and young together.

¹³Let them praise the Name of the Lord, *for his Name only is exalted, his splendor is over earth and heaven.

¹⁴He has raised up strength for his people and praise for all his loyal servants, *the children of Israel, a people who are near him. Hallelujah!

149

Cantate DominoBCP p. 807

¹Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song; *sing his praise in the congregation of the faithful.

²Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; *let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

³Let them praise his Name in the dance; *let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.

⁴For the Lord takes pleasure in his people *and adorns the poor with victory.

⁵Let the faithful rejoice in triumph; *let them be joyful on their beds.

⁶Let the praises of God be in their throat *and a two-edged sword in their hand;

⁷To wreak vengeance on the nations *and punishment on the peoples;

⁸To bind their kings in chains *and their nobles with links of iron;

⁹To inflict on them the judgment decreed; *this is glory for all his faithful people. Hallelujah!

150

Laudate DomiBCP p. 807

¹Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy temple; *praise him in the firmament of his power.

²Praise him for his mighty acts; *praise him for his excellent greatness.

³Praise him with the blast of the ram’s-horn; *Praise him with lyre and harp.

⁴Praise him with timbrel and dance; *praise him with strings and pipe.

⁵Praise him with resounding cymbals; *praise him with loud-clanging cymbals.

⁶Let everything that has breath *praise the Lord. Hallelujah!

Daily Office Readings

Ecclus. 4:1-10

A Reading from the Wisdom of Ben Sira.

¹My child, do not cheat the poor of their living, and do not keep needy eyes waiting. ² Do not grieve the hungry, or anger one in need. ³ Do not add to the troubles of the desperate, or delay giving to the needy. ⁴ Do not reject a suppliant in distress, or turn your face away from the poor. ⁵ Do not avert your eye from the needy, and give no one reason to curse you; ⁶ for if in bitterness of soul some should curse you, their Creator will hear their prayer. ⁷ Endear yourself to the congregation; bow your head low to the great. ⁸ Give a hearing to the poor, and return their greeting politely. ⁹ Rescue the oppressed from the oppressor; and do not be hesitant in giving a verdict. ¹⁰ Be a father to orphans, and be like a husband to their mother; you will then be like a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than does your mother.

1 Cor. 10:1-13

A Reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians.

¹I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, ²and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. ⁵Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness. ⁶Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. ⁷Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.” ⁸We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. ⁹We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹¹These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹²So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall. ¹³No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.