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Wednesday after the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 24

    The Sunday closest to October 19

    Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession 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

    38

    Domine, ne in furoreBCP p. 636

    1O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; *do not punish me in your wrath.

    2For your arrows have already pierced me, *and your hand presses hard upon me.

    3There is no health in my flesh, because of your indignation; *there is no soundness in my body, because of my sin.

    4For my iniquities overwhelm me; *like a heavy burden they are too much for me to bear.

    5My wounds stink and fester *by reason of my foolishness.

    6I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; *I go about in mourning all the day long.

    7My loins are filled with searing pain; *there is no health in my body.

    8I am utterly numb and crushed; *I wail, because of the groaning of my heart.

    9O Lord, you know all my desires, *and my sighing is not hidden from you.

    10My heart is pounding, my strength has failed me, *and the brightness of my eyes is gone from me.

    11My friends and companions draw back from my affliction; *my neighbors stand afar off.

    12Those who seek after my life lay snares for me; *those who strive to hurt me speak of my ruin and plot treachery all the day long.

    13But I am like the deaf who do not hear, *like those who are mute and who do not open their mouth.

    14I have become like one who does not hear *and from whose mouth comes no defense.

    15For in you, O Lord, have I fixed my hope; *you will answer me, O Lord my God.

    16For I said, “Do not let them rejoice at my expense, *those who gloat over me when my foot slips.”

    17Truly, I am on the verge of falling, *and my pain is always with me.

    18I will confess my iniquity *and be sorry for my sin.

    19Those who are my enemies without cause are mighty, *and many in number are those who wrongfully hate me.

    20Those who repay evil for good slander me, *because I follow the course that is right.

    21O Lord, do not forsake me; *be not far from me, O my God.

    22Make haste to help me, *O Lord of my salvation.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Matt. 12:1-14

    1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” 3 He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? 6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.” 9 He left that place and entered their synagogue; 10 a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?” so that they might accuse him. 11 He said to them, “Suppose one of you has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and it was restored, as sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

    Lam. 2:8-15

    8 The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of daughter Zion; he stretched the line; he did not withhold his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languish together. 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord. 10 The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young girls of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers’ bosom. 13 What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can heal you? 14 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen oracles for you that are false and misleading. 15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at daughter Jerusalem; “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

    1 Cor. 15:51-58

    51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.