Daily Readings: October 12, 2024

Saturday after the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Morning	Evening
Psalm 137:1-6(7-9) Psalm 144	Psalm 104
Micah 5:1-4,10-15 Acts 25:13-27 Luke 8:16-25

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.

Psalms

137

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¹By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, *when we remembered you, O Zion.

²As for our harps, we hung them up *on the trees in the midst of that land.

³For those who led us away captive asked us for a song, and our oppressors called for mirth: *“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

⁴How shall we sing the Lord’s song *upon an alien soil?

⁵If I forget you, O Jerusalem, *let my right hand forget its skill.

⁶Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, *if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.

⁷Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord, against the people of Edom, *who said, “Down with it! down with it! even to the ground!”

⁸O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, *happy the one who pays you back for what you have done to us!

⁹Happy shall he be who takes your little ones, *and dashes them against the rock!

144

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¹Blessed be the Lord my rock! *who trains my hands to fight and my fingers to battle;

²My help and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, *my shield in whom I trust, who subdues the peoples under me.

³O Lord, what are we that you should care for us? *mere mortals that you should think of us?

⁴We are like a puff of wind; *our days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; *touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Hurl the lightning and scatter them; *shoot out your arrows and rout them.

⁷Stretch out your hand from on high; *rescue me and deliver me from the great waters, from the hand of foreign peoples,

⁸Whose mouths speak deceitfully *and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

⁹O God, I will sing to you a new song; *I will play to you on a ten-stringed lyre.

¹⁰You give victory to kings *and have rescued David your servant.

¹¹Rescue me from the hurtful sword *and deliver me from the hand of foreign peoples,

¹²Whose mouths speak deceitfully *and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

¹³May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, *and our daughters like sculptured corners of a palace.

¹⁴May our barns be filled to overflowing with all manner of crops; *may the flocks in our pastures increase by thousands and tens of thousands; may our cattle be fat and sleek.

¹⁵May there be no breaching of the walls, no going into exile, *no wailing in the public squares.

¹⁶Happy are the people of whom this is so! *happy are the people whose God is the Lord!

Daily Office Readings

Luke 8:16-25

A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.

¹⁶“No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. ¹⁷For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not become known and come to light. ¹⁸Then pay attention to how you listen; for to those who have, more will be given; and from those who do not have, even what they seem to have will be taken away.” ¹⁹Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. ²⁰And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” ²¹But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.” ²²One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they put out, ²³and while they were sailing he fell asleep. A windstorm swept down on the lake, and the boat was filling with water, and they were in danger. ²⁴They went to him and woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. ²⁵He said to them, “Where is your faith?” They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

¹³After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus. ¹⁴Since they were staying there several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man here who was left in prison by Felix. ¹⁵When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him and asked for a sentence against him. ¹⁶I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge. ¹⁷So when they met here, I lost no time, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought. ¹⁸When the accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the crimes that I was expecting. ¹⁹Instead they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, but whom Paul asserted to be alive. ²⁰Since I was at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges. ²¹But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of his Imperial Majesty, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to the emperor.” ²²Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you will hear him.” ²³So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then Festus gave the order and Paul was brought in. ²⁴And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all here present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer. ²⁵But I found that he had done nothing deserving death; and when he appealed to his Imperial Majesty, I decided to send him. ²⁶But I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write— ²⁷for it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner without indicating the charges against him.”