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Monday after the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 25

    The Sunday closest to October 26

    Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    41

    Beatus qui intelligitBCP p. 641

    1Happy are they who consider the poor and needy! *the Lord will deliver them in the time of trouble.

    2The Lord preserves them and keeps them alive, so that they may be happy in the land; *he does not hand them over to the will of their enemies.

    3The Lord sustains them on their sickbed *and ministers to them in their illness.

    4I said, “Lord, be merciful to me; *heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

    5My enemies are saying wicked things about me: *“When will he die, and his name perish?”

    6Even if they come to see me, they speak empty words; *their heart collects false rumors; they go outside and spread them.

    7All my enemies whisper together about me *and devise evil against me.

    8“A deadly thing,” they say, “has fastened on him; *he has taken to his bed and will never get up again.”

    9Even my best friend, whom I trusted, who broke bread with me, *has lifted up his heel and turned against me.

    10But you, O Lord, be merciful to me and raise me up, *and I shall repay them.

    11By this I know you are pleased with me, *that my enemy does not triumph over me.

    12In my integrity you hold me fast, *and shall set me before your face for ever.

    13Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, *from age to age. Amen. Amen.

    52

    Quid gloriaris?BCP p. 657

    1You tyrant, why do you boast of wickedness *against the godly all day long?

    2You plot ruin; your tongue is like a sharpened razor, *O worker of deception.

    3You love evil more than good *and lying more than speaking the truth.

    4You love all words that hurt, *O you deceitful tongue.

    5Oh, that God would demolish you utterly, *topple you, and snatch you from your dwelling, and root you out of the land of the living!

    6The righteous shall see and tremble, *and they shall laugh at him, saying,

    7“This is the one who did not take God for a refuge, *but trusted in great wealth and relied upon wickedness.”

    8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; *I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

    9I will give you thanks for what you have done *and declare the goodness of your Name in the presence of the godly.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Rev. 1:4-20

    4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7 Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen. 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. 9 I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying, “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.” 12 Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest. 14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force. 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades. 19 Now write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after this. 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

    Zech. 1:7-17

    7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo; and Zechariah said, 8 In the night I saw a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. 9 Then I said, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.” 10 So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, “They are those whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.” 11 Then they spoke to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and lo, the whole earth remains at peace.” 12 Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry these seventy years?” 13 Then the Lord replied with gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, Proclaim this message: Thus says the Lord of hosts; I am very jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 15 And I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse. 16 Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. 17 Proclaim further: Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.

    Matt. 12:43-50

    43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.” 46 While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. 47 Someone told him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” 48 But to the one who had told him this, Jesus replied, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”