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Tuesday after the Second Sunday of Advent

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The Collect of the Day

Second Sunday of Advent

Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Nicholas of Myra

Grant, Almighty God, that your church may be so inspired by the example of your servant Nicholas of Myra, that it may never cease to work for the welfare of children, the safety of sailors, the relief of the poor, and the help of those tossed by tempests of doubt or grief; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

First Sunday of Advent

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalms

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Judica me, DomineBCP p. 616

1Give judgment for me, O Lord, for I have lived with integrity; *I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.

2Test me, O Lord, and try me; *examine my heart and my mind.

3For your love is before my eyes; *I have walked faithfully with you.

4I have not sat with the worthless, *nor do I consort with the deceitful.

5I have hated the company of evildoers; *I will not sit down with the wicked.

6I will wash my hands in innocence, O Lord, *that I may go in procession round your altar,

7Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving *and recounting all your wonderful deeds.

8Lord, I love the house in which you dwell *and the place where your glory abides.

9Do not sweep me away with sinners, *nor my life with those who thirst for blood,

10Whose hands are full of evil plots, *and their right hand full of bribes.

11As for me, I will live with integrity; *redeem me, O Lord, and have pity on me.

12My foot stands on level ground; *in the full assembly I will bless the Lord.

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Ad te, DomineBCP p. 619

1O Lord, I call to you; my Rock, do not be deaf to my cry; *lest, if you do not hear me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.

2Hear the voice of my prayer when I cry out to you, *when I lift up my hands to your holy of holies.

3Do not snatch me away with the wicked or with the evildoers, *who speak peaceably with their neighbors, while strife is in their hearts.

4Repay them according to their deeds, *and according to the wickedness of their actions.

5According to the work of their hands repay them, *and give them their just deserts.

6They have no understanding of the Lord’s doings, nor of the works of his hands; *therefore he will break them down and not build them up.

7Blessed is the Lord! *for he has heard the voice of my prayer.

8The Lord is my strength and my shield; *my heart trusts in him, and I have been helped;

9Therefore my heart dances for joy, *and in my song will I praise him.

10The Lord is the strength of his people, *a safe refuge for his anointed.

11Save your people and bless your inheritance; *shepherd them and carry them for ever.

Daily Office Readings

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Luke 21:29-38

29 Then he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees; 30 as soon as they sprout leaves you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near. 31 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. 32 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things have taken place. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly, 35 like a trap. For it will come upon all who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.” 37 Every day he was teaching in the temple, and at night he would go out and spend the night on the Mount of Olives, as it was called. 38 And all the people would get up early in the morning to listen to him in the temple.

1 Thess. 5:12-28

12 But we appeal to you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who labor among you, and have charge of you in the Lord and admonish you; 13 esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the faint hearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them. 15 See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise the words of prophets, 21 but test everything; hold fast to what is good; 22 abstain from every form of evil. 23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this. 25 Beloved, pray for us. 26 Greet all the brothers and sisters with a holy kiss. 27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all of them. 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Isa. 5:13-17, 24-25

13 Therefore my people go into exile without knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst. 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure; the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and all who exult in her. 15 People are bowed down, everyone is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled. 16 But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness. 17 Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins. 24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.