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Tuesday 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

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    Verba mea auribusBCP p. 588

    1Give ear to my words, O Lord; *consider my meditation.

    2Hearken to my cry for help, my King and my God, *for I make my prayer to you.

    3In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; *early in the morning I make my appeal and watch for you.

    4For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, *and evil cannot dwell with you.

    5Braggarts cannot stand in your sight; *you hate all those who work wickedness.

    6You destroy those who speak lies; *the bloodthirsty and deceitful, O Lord, you abhor.

    7But as for me, through the greatness of your mercy I will go into your house; *I will bow down toward your holy temple in awe of you.

    8Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness, because of those who lie in wait for me; *make your way straight before me.

    9For there is no truth in their mouth; *there is destruction in their heart;

    10Their throat is an open grave; *they flatter with their tongue.

    11Declare them guilty, O God; *let them fall, because of their schemes.

    12Because of their many transgressions cast them out, *for they have rebelled against you.

    13But all who take refuge in you will be glad; *they will sing out their joy for ever.

    14You will shelter them, *so that those who love your Name may exult in you.

    15For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous; *you will defend them with your favor as with a shield.

    6

    Domine, ne in furoreBCP p. 589

    1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; *do not punish me in your wrath.

    2Have pity on me, Lord, for I am weak; *heal me, Lord, for my bones are racked.

    3My spirit shakes with terror; *how long, O Lord, how long?

    4Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; *save me for your mercy’s sake.

    5For in death no one remembers you; *and who will give you thanks in the grave?

    6I grow weary because of my groaning; *every night I drench my bed and flood my couch with tears.

    7My eyes are wasted with grief *and worn away because of all my enemies.

    8Depart from me, all evildoers, *for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

    9The Lord has heard my supplication; *the Lord accepts my prayer.

    10All my enemies shall be confounded and quake with fear; *they shall turn back and suddenly be put to shame.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Heb. 2:1-10

    1 Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. 2 For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him, 4 while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will. 5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them? 7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor, 8 subjecting all things under their feet.” Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, 9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

    John 1:19-28

    19 This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” 21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.” 22 Then they said to him, “Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’” as the prophet Isaiah said. 24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. 25 They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, 27 the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal.” 28 This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing.

    Gen. 3:1-24

    1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; 5 for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. 8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” 16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” 17 And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” 20 The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21 And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.