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Monday after the First Sunday after the Epiphany

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    The Collect of the Day

    First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord

    Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

    Psalms

    1

    Beatus vir qui non abiitBCP p. 585

    1Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, *nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful!

    2Their delight is in the law of the Lord, *and they meditate on his law day and night.

    3They are like trees planted by streams of water, bearing fruit in due season, with leaves that do not wither; *everything they do shall prosper.

    4It is not so with the wicked; *they are like chaff which the wind blows away.

    5Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes, *nor the sinner in the council of the righteous.

    6For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, *but the way of the wicked is doomed.

    2

    Quare fremuerunt gentes?BCP p. 586

    1Why are the nations in an uproar? *Why do the peoples mutter empty threats?

    2Why do the kings of the earth rise up in revolt, and the princes plot together, *against the Lord and against his Anointed?

    3“Let us break their yoke,” they say; *“let us cast off their bonds from us.”

    4He whose throne is in heaven is laughing; *the Lord has them in derision.

    5Then he speaks to them in his wrath, *and his rage fills them with terror.

    6“I myself have set my king *upon my holy hill of Zion.”

    7Let me announce the decree of the Lord: *he said to me, “You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

    8Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance *and the ends of the earth for your possession.

    9You shall crush them with an iron rod *and shatter them like a piece of pottery.”

    10And now, you kings, be wise; *be warned, you rulers of the earth.

    11Submit to the Lord with fear, *and with trembling bow before him;

    12Lest he be angry and you perish; *for his wrath is quickly kindled.

    13Happy are they all *who take refuge in him!

    3

    Domine, quid multiplicatiBCP p. 587

    1Lord, how many adversaries I have! *how many there are who rise up against me!

    2How many there are who say of me, *“There is no help for him in his God.”

    3But you, O Lord, are a shield about me; *you are my glory, the one who lifts up my head.

    4I call aloud upon the Lord, *and he answers me from his holy hill;

    5I lie down and go to sleep; *I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.

    6I do not fear the multitudes of people *who set themselves against me all around.

    7Rise up, O Lord; set me free, O my God; *surely, you will strike all my enemies across the face, you will break the teeth of the wicked.

    8Deliverance belongs to the Lord. *Your blessing be upon your people!

    Daily Office Readings

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    John 1:1-18

    1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. 15 (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’”) 16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

    Heb. 1:1-14

    1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. 3 He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. 5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”? 6 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.” 7 Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire.” 8 But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.” 10 And, “In the beginning, Lord, you founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands; 11 they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like clothing; 12 like a cloak you will roll them up, and like clothing they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will never end.” 13 But to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? 14 Are not all angels spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

    Gen. 2:4-9[10-15]16-25

    4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; 6 but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.[ 10 A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.] 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.” 24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.