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Wednesday after the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 18

    The Sunday closest to September 7

    Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    119

    Zayin

    Memor esto verbi tuiBCP p. 767

    49Remember your word to your servant, *because you have given me hope.

    50This is my comfort in my trouble, *that your promise gives me life.

    51The proud have derided me cruelly, *but I have not turned from your law.

    52When I remember your judgments of old, *O Lord, I take great comfort.

    53I am filled with a burning rage, *because of the wicked who forsake your law.

    54Your statutes have been like songs to me *wherever I have lived as a stranger.

    55I remember your Name in the night, O Lord, *and dwell upon your law.

    56This is how it has been with me, *because I have kept your commandments.

    Heth

    Portio mea, Domine

    57You only are my portion, O Lord; *I have promised to keep your words.

    58I entreat you with all my heart, *be merciful to me according to your promise.

    59I have considered my ways *and turned my feet toward your decrees.

    60I hasten and do not tarry *to keep your commandments.

    61Though the cords of the wicked entangle me, *I do not forget your law.

    62At midnight I will rise to give you thanks, *because of your righteous judgments.

    63I am a companion of all who fear you *and of those who keep your commandments.

    64The earth, O Lord, is full of your love; *instruct me in your statutes.

    Teth

    Bonitatem fecisti

    65O Lord, you have dealt graciously with your servant, *according to your word.

    66Teach me discernment and knowledge, *for I have believed in your commandments.

    67Before I was afflicted I went astray, *but now I keep your word.

    68You are good and you bring forth good; *instruct me in your statutes.

    69The proud have smeared me with lies, *but I will keep your commandments with my whole heart.

    70Their heart is gross and fat, *but my delight is in your law.

    71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, *that I might learn your statutes.

    72The law of your mouth is dearer to me *than thousands in gold and silver.

    Daily Office Readings

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    John 11:1-16

    1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6 after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10 But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.” 11 After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.” 12 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” 13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15 For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16 Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

    Job 29:1,30:1-2,16-31

    1 Job again took up his discourse and said: 1 “But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2 What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone. 16 “And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17 The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. 18 With violence he seizes my garment; he grasps me by the collar of my tunic. 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry to you and you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me. 21 You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. 22 You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. 23 I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 24 “Surely one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help. 25 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? 26 But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. 27 My inward parts are in turmoil, and are never still; days of affliction come to meet me. 28 I go about in sunless gloom; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 29 I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches. 30 My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. 31 My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

    Acts 14:19-28

    19 But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. Then they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. 20 But when the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the city. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. 21 After they had proclaimed the good news to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, then on to Iconium and Antioch. 22 There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.” 23 And after they had appointed elders for them in each church, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe. 24 Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. 26 From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had completed. 27 When they arrived, they called the church together and related all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles. 28 And they stayed there with the disciples for some time.