Daily Readings: October 9, 2022

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Morning	Evening
Psalm 146 Psalm 147	Psalm 111 Psalm 112 Psalm 113
Micah 6:1-8 1 Cor. 4:9-16 Matt. 15:21-28

The Collect of the Day

Proper 23

The Sunday closest to October 12

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.

Psalms

146

Lauda, anima meaBCP p. 803

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul! *I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

²Put not your trust in rulers, nor in any child of earth, *for there is no help in them.

³When they breathe their last, they return to earth, *and in that day their thoughts perish.

⁴Happy are they who have the God of Jacob for their help! *whose hope is in the Lord their God;

⁵Who made heaven and earth, the seas, and all that is in them; *who keeps his promise for ever;

⁶Who gives justice to those who are oppressed, *and food to those who hunger.

⁷The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind; *the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;

⁸The Lord loves the righteous; the Lord cares for the stranger; *he sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked.

⁹The Lord shall reign for ever, *your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. Hallelujah!

147

Laudate DominumBCP p. 804

¹Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! *how pleasant it is to honor him with praise!

²The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem; *he gathers the exiles of Israel.

³He heals the brokenhearted *and binds up their wounds.

⁴He counts the number of the stars *and calls them all by their names.

⁵Great is our Lord and mighty in power; *there is no limit to his wisdom.

⁶The Lord lifts up the lowly, *but casts the wicked to the ground.

⁷Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; *make music to our God upon the harp.

⁸He covers the heavens with clouds *and prepares rain for the earth;

⁹He makes grass to grow upon the mountains *and green plants to serve mankind.

¹⁰He provides food for flocks and herds *and for the young ravens when they cry.

¹¹He is not impressed by the might of a horse; *he has no pleasure in the strength of a man;

¹²But the Lord has pleasure in those who fear him, *in those who await his gracious favor.

¹³Worship the Lord, O Jerusalem; *praise your God, O Zion;

¹⁴For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; *he has blessed your children within you.

¹⁵He has established peace on your borders; *he satisfies you with the finest wheat.

¹⁶He sends out his command to the earth, *and his word runs very swiftly.

¹⁷He gives snow like wool; *he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.

¹⁸He scatters his hail like bread crumbs; *who can stand against his cold?

¹⁹He sends forth his word and melts them; *he blows with his wind, and the waters flow.

²⁰He declares his word to Jacob, *his statutes and his judgments to Israel.

²¹He has not done so to any other nation; *to them he has not revealed his judgments. Hallelujah!

Daily Office Readings

Micah 6:1-8

A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Micah.

¹Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. ²Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. ³“O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! ⁴For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. ⁵O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.” ⁶“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? ⁷Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” ⁸He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

1 Cor. 4:9-16

A Reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians.

⁹For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals. ¹⁰We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. ¹¹To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, ¹²and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; ¹³when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day. ¹⁴I am not writing this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. ¹⁵For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. ¹⁶I appeal to you, then, be imitators of me.

Matt. 15:21-28

A Reading from the Gospel According to Matthew.

²¹Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. ²²Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” ²³But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.” ²⁴He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” ²⁵But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” ²⁶He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” ²⁷She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” ²⁸Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed instantly.