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Wednesday after the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

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The Collect of the Day

Proper 28

The Sunday closest to November 16

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Margaret of Scotland

O God, who called your servant Margaret toan earthly throne that she might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave her zeal for your church and love for your people: Mercifully grant that we also may be fruitful in good works, and attain to the glorious crown of your saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

101

Misericordiam ed judiciumBCP p. 730

1I will sing of mercy and justice; *to you, O Lord, will I sing praises.

2I will strive to follow a blameless course; oh, when will you come to me? *I will walk with sincerity of heart within my house.

3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; *I hate the doers of evil deeds; they shall not remain with me.

4A crooked heart shall be far from me; *I will not know evil.

5Those who in secret slander their neighbors I will destroy; *those who have a haughty look and a proud heart I cannot abide.

6My eyes are upon the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me, *and only those who lead a blameless life shall be my servants.

7Those who act deceitfully shall not dwell in my house, *and those who tell lies shall not continue in my sight.

8I will soon destroy all the wicked in the land, *that I may root out all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

109

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1Hold not your tongue, O God of my praise; *for the mouth of the wicked, the mouth of the deceitful, is opened against me.

2They speak to me with a lying tongue; *they encompass me with hateful words and fight against me without a cause.

3Despite my love, they accuse me; *but as for me, I pray for them.

4They repay evil for good, *and hatred for my love.

5Set a wicked man against him, *and let an accuser stand at his right hand.

6When he is judged, let him be found guilty, *and let his appeal be in vain.

7Let his days be few, *and let another take his office.

8Let his children be fatherless, *and his wife become a widow.

9Let his children be waifs and beggars; *let them be driven from the ruins of their homes.

10Let the creditor seize everything he has; *let strangers plunder his gains.

11Let there be no one to show him kindness, *and none to pity his fatherless children.

12Let his descendants be destroyed, *and his name be blotted out in the next generation.

13Let the wickedness of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, *and his mother’s sin not be blotted out;

14Let their sin be always before the Lord; *but let him root out their names from the earth;

15Because he did not remember to show mercy, *but persecuted the poor and needy and sought to kill the brokenhearted.

16He loved cursing, let it come upon him; *he took no delight in blessing, let it depart from him.

17He put on cursing like a garment, *let it soak into his body like water and into his bones like oil;

18Let it be to him like the cloak which he wraps around himself, *and like the belt that he wears continually.

19Let this be the recompense from the Lord to my accusers, *and to those who speak evil against me.

20But you, O Lord my God, oh, deal with me according to your Name; *for your tender mercy’s sake, deliver me.

21For I am poor and needy, *and my heart is wounded within me.

22I have faded away like a shadow when it lengthens; *I am shaken off like a locust.

23My knees are weak through fasting, *and my flesh is wasted and gaunt.

24I have become a reproach to them; *they see and shake their heads.

25Help me, O Lord my God; *save me for your mercy’s sake.

26Let them know that this is your hand, *that you, O Lord, have done it.

27They may curse, but you will bless; *let those who rise up against me be put to shame, and your servant will rejoice.

28Let my accusers be clothed with disgrace *and wrap themselves in their shame as in a cloak.

29I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth; *in the midst of the multitude will I praise him;

30Because he stands at the right hand of the needy, *to save his life from those who would condemn him.

Daily Office Readings

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James 3:13-4:12

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace. 1 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, “God yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor?

Mal. 1:1,6-14

1 An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 6 A son honors his father, and servants their master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?” 7 By offering polluted food on my altar. And you say, “How have we polluted it?” By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised. 8 When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not wrong? Try presenting that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts. 9 And now implore the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. The fault is yours. Will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts. 10 Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands. 11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. 12 But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised. 13 “What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at me, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord. 14 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in the flock and vows to give it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished; for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is reverenced among the nations.

Luke 17:11-19

11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, 13 they called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 14 When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean. 15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. 16 He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? 18 Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him, “Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.”