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Friday after the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 17

    The Sunday closest to August 31

    Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    31

    In te, Domine, speraviBCP p. 622

    1In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; *deliver me in your righteousness.

    2Incline your ear to me; *make haste to deliver me.

    3Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe, for you are my crag and my stronghold; *for the sake of your Name, lead me and guide me.

    4Take me out of the net that they have secretly set for me, *for you are my tower of strength.

    5Into your hands I commend my spirit, *for you have redeemed me, O Lord, O God of truth.

    6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, *and I put my trust in the Lord.

    7I will rejoice and be glad because of your mercy; *for you have seen my affliction; you know my distress.

    8You have not shut me up in the power of the enemy; *you have set my feet in an open place.

    9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; *my eye is consumed with sorrow, and also my throat and my belly.

    10For my life is wasted with grief, and my years with sighing; *my strength fails me because of affliction, and my bones are consumed.

    11I have become a reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbors, a dismay to those of my acquaintance; *when they see me in the street they avoid me.

    12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; *I am as useless as a broken pot.

    13For I have heard the whispering of the crowd; fear is all around; *they put their heads together against me; they plot to take my life.

    14But as for me, I have trusted in you, O Lord. *I have said, “You are my God.

    15My times are in your hand; *rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

    16Make your face to shine upon your servant, *and in your loving-kindness save me.”

    17Lord, let me not be ashamed for having called upon you; *rather, let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in the grave.

    18Let the lying lips be silenced which speak against the righteous, *haughtily, disdainfully, and with contempt.

    19How great is your goodness, O Lord! which you have laid up for those who fear you; *which you have done in the sight of all for those who put their trust in you.

    20You hide them in the covert of your presence from those who slander them; *you keep them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

    21Blessed be the Lord! *for he has shown me the wonders of his love in a besieged city.

    22Yet I said in my alarm, “I have been cut off from the sight of your eyes.” *Nevertheless, you heard the sound of my entreaty when I cried out to you.

    23Love the Lord, all you who worship him; *the Lord protects the faithful, but repays to the full those who act haughtily.

    24Be strong and let your heart take courage, *all you who wait for the Lord.

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    James 4:13-5:6

    13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.” 14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin. 1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. 4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

    1 Kings 11:26-43

    26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, rebelled against the king. 27 The following was the reason he rebelled against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the gap in the wall of the city of his father David. 28 The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph. 29 About that time, when Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Ahijah had clothed himself with a new garment. The two of them were alone in the open country 30 when Ahijah laid hold of the new garment he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 He then said to Jeroboam: Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “See, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes. 32 One tribe will remain his, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. 33 This is because he has forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did. 34 Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom away from him but will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of my servant David whom I chose and who did keep my commandments and my statutes; 35 but I will take the kingdom away from his son and give it to you—that is, the ten tribes. 36 Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that my servant David may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name. 37 I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires; you shall be king over Israel. 38 If you will listen to all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you, and will build you an enduring house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 39 For this reason I will punish the descendants of David, but not forever.” 40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam promptly fled to Egypt, to King Shishak of Egypt, and remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon. 41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, all that he did as well as his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon? 42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 43 Solomon slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam succeeded him.

    Mark 15:22-32

    22 Then they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull). 23 And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh; but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him, and divided his clothes among them, casting lots to decide what each should take. 25 It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. 26 The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” 27 And with him they crucified two bandits, one on his right and one on his left. 29 Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!” 31 In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were also mocking him among themselves and saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. 32 Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.