Daily Readings: October 9, 2023

Monday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253

Morning	Evening
Psalm 106:1-18	Psalm 106:19-48
2 Kings 21:1-18 1 Cor. 10:14-11:1 Matt. 8:28-34

The Collect of the Day

Proper 22

The Sunday closest to October 5

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Robert Grosseteste

O God, our heavenly Father, who raised up your faithful servant Robert Grosseteste to be a bishop and pastor in your church and to feed your flock: Give abundantly to all pastors the gifts of your Holy Spirit, that they may minister in your household as true servants of Christ and stewards of your divine mysteries; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

106 Part I

Confitemini DominoBCP p. 741

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, *for his mercy endures for ever.

²Who can declare the mighty acts of the Lord *or show forth all his praise?

³Happy are those who act with justice *and always do what is right!

⁴Remember me, O Lord, with the favor you have for your people, *and visit me with your saving help;

⁵That I may see the prosperity of your elect and be glad with the gladness of your people, *that I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned as our forebears did; *we have done wrong and dealt wickedly.

⁷In Egypt they did not consider your marvelous works, nor remember the abundance of your love; *they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.

⁸But he saved them for his Name’s sake, *to make his power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, *and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand of those who hated them *and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their oppressors; *not one of them was left.

¹²Then they believed his words *and sang him songs of praise.

¹³But they soon forgot his deeds *and did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴A craving seized them in the wilderness, *and they put God to the test in the desert.

¹⁵He gave them what they asked, *but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶They envied Moses in the camp, *and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed Dathan *and covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire blazed up against their company, *and flames devoured the wicked.

Daily Office Readings

2 Kings 21:1-18

A Reading from the Second Book of Kings.

¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. ²He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, following the abominable practices of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. ³For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he erected altars for Baal, made a sacred pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.” ⁵He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁷The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever; ⁸I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land that I gave to their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.” ⁹But they did not listen; Manasseh misled them to do more evil than the nations had done that the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel. ¹⁰The Lord said by his servants the prophets, ¹¹“Because King Manasseh of Judah has committed these abominations, has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has caused Judah also to sin with his idols; ¹²therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. ¹³I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line for Samaria, and the plummet for the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies; they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, ¹⁵because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their ancestors came out of Egypt, even to this day.” ¹⁶Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁷Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? ¹⁸Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza. His son Amon succeeded him.

¹⁴Therefore, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. ¹⁵I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. ¹⁶The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? ¹⁷Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar? ¹⁹What do I imply then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons. ²¹You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²²Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? ²³“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. ²⁴Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other. ²⁵Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience, ²⁶for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.” ²⁷If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁸But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— ²⁹I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience? ³⁰If I partake with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of that for which I give thanks? ³¹So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. ³²Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, ³³just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, so that they may be saved. ¹Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.