Daily Readings: September 24, 2022

Saturday after the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Ember Day

Morning	Evening
Psalm 87 Psalm 90	Psalm 136
Hosea 1:1-2:1 Acts 20:1-16 Luke 4:38-44

The Collect of the Day

Proper 20

The Sunday closest to September 21

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

15. For the Ministry (Ember Days)

I. For those to be ordained

Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, in your divine providence you have appointed various orders in your Church: Give your grace, we humbly pray, to all who are [now] called to any office and ministry for your people; and so fill them with the truth of your doctrine and clothe them with holiness of life, that they may faithfully serve before you, to the glory of your great Name and for the benefit of your holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

15. For the Ministry (Ember Days)

II. For the choice of fit persons for the ministry

O God, you led your holy apostles to ordain ministers in every place: Grant that your Church, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, may choose suitable persons for the ministry of Word and Sacrament, and may uphold them in their work for the extension of your kingdom; through him who is the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

15. For the Ministry (Ember Days)

III. For all Christians in their vocation

Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalms

87

Fundamenta ejusBCP p. 711

¹On the holy mountain stands the city he has founded; *the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

²Glorious things are spoken of you, *O city of our God.

³I count Egypt and Babylon among those who know me; *behold Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia: in Zion were they born.

⁴Of Zion it shall be said, “Everyone was born in her, *and the Most High himself shall sustain her.”

⁵The Lord will record as he enrolls the peoples, *“These also were born there.”

⁶The singers and the dancers will say, *“All my fresh springs are in you.”

90

Domine, refugiumBCP p. 717

¹Lord, you have been our refuge *from one generation to another.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or the land and the earth were born, *from age to age you are God.

³You turn us back to the dust and say, *“Go back, O child of earth.”

⁴For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past *and like a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep us away like a dream; *we fade away suddenly like the grass.

⁶In the morning it is green and flourishes; *in the evening it is dried up and withered.

⁷For we consume away in your displeasure; *we are afraid because of your wrathful indignation.

⁸Our iniquities you have set before you, *and our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

⁹When you are angry, all our days are gone; *we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

¹⁰The span of our life is seventy years, perhaps in strength even eighty; *yet the sum of them is but labor and sorrow, for they pass away quickly and we are gone.

¹¹Who regards the power of your wrath? *who rightly fears your indignation?

¹²So teach us to number our days *that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³Return, O Lord; how long will you tarry? *be gracious to your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us by your loving-kindness in the morning; *so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

¹⁵Make us glad by the measure of the days that you afflicted us *and the years in which we suffered adversity.

¹⁶Show your servants your works *and your splendor to their children.

¹⁷May the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; *prosper the work of our hands; prosper our handiwork.

Daily Office Readings

¹After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples; and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left for Macedonia. ²When he had gone through those regions and had given the believers much encouragement, he came to Greece, ³where he stayed for three months. He was about to set sail for Syria when a plot was made against him by the Jews, and so he decided to return through Macedonia. ⁴He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Beroea, by Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, by Gaius from Derbe, and by Timothy, as well as by Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia. ⁵They went ahead and were waiting for us in Troas; ⁶but we sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we joined them in Troas, where we stayed for seven days. ⁷On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul was holding a discussion with them; since he intended to leave the next day, he continued speaking until midnight. ⁸There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were meeting. ⁹A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, began to sink off into a deep sleep while Paul talked still longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell to the ground three floors below and was picked up dead. ¹⁰But Paul went down, and bending over him took him in his arms, and said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” ¹¹Then Paul went upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he continued to converse with them until dawn; then he left. ¹²Meanwhile they had taken the boy away alive and were not a little comforted. ¹³We went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there; for he had made this arrangement, intending to go by land himself. ¹⁴When he met us in Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. ¹⁵We sailed from there, and on the following day we arrived opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we came to Miletus. ¹⁶For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; he was eager to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.