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Saturday after the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 16

    The Sunday closest to August 24

    Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory 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

    20

    Exaudiat te DominusBCP p. 608

    1May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble, *the Name of the God of Jacob defend you;

    2Send you help from his holy place *and strengthen you out of Zion;

    3Remember all your offerings *and accept your burnt sacrifice;

    4Grant you your heart’s desire *and prosper all your plans.

    5We will shout for joy at your victory and triumph in the Name of our God; *may the Lord grant all your requests.

    6Now I know that the Lord gives victory to his anointed; *he will answer him out of his holy heaven, with the victorious strength of his right hand.

    7Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses, *but we will call upon the Name of the Lord our God.

    8They collapse and fall down, *but we will arise and stand upright.

    9O Lord, give victory to the king *and answer us when we call.

    21

    Domine, in virtute tuaBCP p. 608

    1The king rejoices in your strength, O Lord; *how greatly he exults in your victory!

    2You have given him his heart’s desire; *you have not denied him the request of his lips.

    3For you meet him with blessings of prosperity, *and set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

    4He asked you for life, and you gave it to him: *length of days, for ever and ever.

    5His honor is great, because of your victory; *splendor and majesty have you bestowed upon him.

    6For you will give him everlasting felicity *and will make him glad with the joy of your presence.

    7For the king puts his trust in the Lord; *because of the loving-kindness of the Most High, he will not fall.

    8Your hand will lay hold upon all your enemies; *your right hand will seize all those who hate you.

    9You will make them like a fiery furnace *at the time of your appearing, O Lord;

    10You will swallow them up in your wrath, *and fire shall consume them.

    11You will destroy their offspring from the land *and their descendants from among the peoples of the earth.

    12Though they intend evil against you and devise wicked schemes, *yet they shall not prevail.

    13For you will put them to flight *and aim your arrows at them.

    14Be exalted, O Lord, in your might; *we will sing and praise your power.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Job 9:1,10:1-9,16-22

    1 Then Job answered: 1 “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. 3 Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked? 4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see? 5 Are your days like the days of mortals, or your years like human years, 6 that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand? 8 Your hands fashioned and made me; and now you turn and destroy me. 9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again? 16 Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me. 17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. 18 “Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me, 19 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. 20 Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort 21 before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness, 22 the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.”

    Acts 11:1-18

    1 Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, 3 saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?” 4 Then Peter began to explain it to them, step by step, saying, 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. There was something like a large sheet coming down from heaven, being lowered by its four corners; and it came close to me. 6 As I looked at it closely I saw four-footed animals, beasts of prey, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’ 8 But I replied, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ 9 But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’ 10 This happened three times; then everything was pulled up again to heaven. 11 At that very moment three men, sent to me from Caesarea, arrived at the house where we were. 12 The Spirit told me to go with them and not to make a distinction between them and us. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon, who is called Peter; 14 he will give you a message by which you and your entire household will be saved.’ 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?” 18 When they heard this, they were silenced. And they praised God, saying, “Then God has given even to the Gentiles the repentance that leads to life.”

    John 8:12-20

    12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” 13 Then the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid.” 14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. 15 You judge by human standards; I judge no one. 16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. 17 In your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. 18 I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf.” 19 Then they said to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20 He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.