Daily Readings: May 2, 2023

Tuesday after the Fourth Sunday of Easter

Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373

Morning	Evening
Psalm 45	Psalm 47 Psalm 48
Wisdom 3:1-9 Col 1:15-23 Luke 6:12-26

The Collect of the Day

Fourth Sunday of Easter

O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Athanasius of Alexandria

O Lord, who established your servant Athanasius, through wisdom, in your truth: Grant that we, perceiving the humanity and divinity of your Son Jesus Christ, may follow in his footsteps and ascend the way to eternal life, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalms

45

Eructavit cor meumBCP p. 647

¹My heart is stirring with a noble song; let me recite what I have fashioned for the king; *my tongue shall be the pen of a skilled writer.

²You are the fairest of men; *grace flows from your lips, because God has blessed you for ever.

³Strap your sword upon your thigh, O mighty warrior, *in your pride and in your majesty.

⁴Ride out and conquer in the cause of truth *and for the sake of justice.

⁵Your right hand will show you marvelous things; *your arrows are very sharp, O mighty warrior.

⁶The peoples are falling at your feet, *and the king’s enemies are losing heart.

⁷Your throne, O God, endures for ever and ever, *a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom; you love righteousness and hate iniquity.

⁸Therefore God, your God, has anointed you *with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

⁹All your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia, *and the music of strings from ivory palaces makes you glad.

¹⁰Kings’ daughters stand among the ladies of the court; *on your right hand is the queen, adorned with the gold of Ophir.

¹¹“Hear, O daughter; consider and listen closely; *forget your people and your father’s house.

¹²The king will have pleasure in your beauty; *he is your master; therefore do him honor.

¹³The people of Tyre are here with a gift; *the rich among the people seek your favor.”

¹⁴All glorious is the princess as she enters; *her gown is cloth-of-gold.

¹⁵In embroidered apparel she is brought to the king; *after her the bridesmaids follow in procession.

¹⁶With joy and gladness they are brought, *and enter into the palace of the king.

¹⁷“In place of fathers, O king, you shall have sons; *you shall make them princes over all the earth.

¹⁸I will make your name to be remembered from one generation to another; *therefore nations will praise you for ever and ever.”

Daily Office Readings

Luke 6:12-26

A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.

¹²Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. ¹³And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: ¹⁴Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, ¹⁵and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. ¹⁷He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. ¹⁸They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. ¹⁹And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. ²⁰Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. ²¹“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. ²²“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. ²³Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. ²⁴“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. ²⁵“Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. ²⁶“Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; ¹⁶for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. ¹⁹For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, ²⁰and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross. ²¹And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, ²²he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him— ²³provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel.