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Tuesday after the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 24

    The Sunday closest to October 19

    Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    36

    Dixit injustusBCP p. 632

    1There is a voice of rebellion deep in the heart of the wicked; *there is no fear of God before his eyes.

    2He flatters himself in his own eyes *that his hateful sin will not be found out.

    3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; *he has left off acting wisely and doing good.

    4He thinks up wickedness upon his bed and has set himself in no good way; *he does not abhor that which is evil.

    5Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, *and your faithfulness to the clouds.

    6Your righteousness is like the strong mountains, your justice like the great deep; *you save both man and beast, O Lord.

    7How priceless is your love, O God! *your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

    8They feast upon the abundance of your house; *you give them drink from the river of your delights.

    9For with you is the well of life, *and in your light we see light.

    10Continue your loving-kindness to those who know you, *and your favor to those who are true of heart.

    11Let not the foot of the proud come near me, *nor the hand of the wicked push me aside.

    12See how they are fallen, those who work wickedness! *they are cast down and shall not be able to rise.

    39

    Dixi, CustodiamBCP p. 638

    1I said, “I will keep watch upon my ways, *so that I do not offend with my tongue.

    2I will put a muzzle on my mouth *while the wicked are in my presence.”

    3So I held my tongue and said nothing; *I refrained from rash words; but my pain became unbearable.

    4My heart was hot within me; while I pondered, the fire burst into flame; *I spoke out with my tongue:

    5Lord, let me know my end and the number of my days, *so that I may know how short my life is.

    6You have given me a mere handful of days, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight; *truly, even those who stand erect are but a puff of wind.

    7We walk about like a shadow, and in vain we are in turmoil; *we heap up riches and cannot tell who will gather them.

    8And now, what is my hope? *O Lord, my hope is in you.

    9Deliver me from all my transgressions *and do not make me the taunt of the fool.

    10I fell silent and did not open my mouth, *for surely it was you that did it.

    11Take your affliction from me; *I am worn down by the blows of your hand.

    12With rebukes for sin you punish us; like a moth you eat away all that is dear to us; *truly, everyone is but a puff of wind.

    13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; *hold not your peace at my tears.

    14For I am but a sojourner with you, *a wayfarer, as all my forebears were.

    15Turn your gaze from me, that I may be glad again, *before I go my way and am no more.

    Daily Office Readings

    Ecclus. 6:5-17

    A Reading from the Wisdom of Ben Sira.

    5 Pleasant speech multiplies friends,    and a gracious tongue multiplies courtesies. 6 Let those who are friendly with you be many,    but let your advisers be one in a thousand. 7 When you gain friends, gain them through testing,    and do not trust them hastily. 8 For there are friends who are such when it suits them,    but they will not stand by you in time of trouble. 9 And there are friends who change into enemies,    and tell of the quarrel to your disgrace. 10 And there are friends who sit at your table,    but they will not stand by you in time of trouble. 11 When you are prosperous, they become your second self,    and lord it over your servants; 12 but if you are brought low, they turn against you,    and hide themselves from you. 13 Keep away from your enemies, and be on guard with your friends. 14 Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter:    whoever finds one has found a treasure. 15 Faithful friends are beyond price;    no amount can balance their worth. 16 Faithful friends are life-saving medicine;    and those who fear the Lord will find them. 17 Those who fear the Lord direct their friendship aright, for as they are, so are their neighbours also.

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    Luke 10:1-16

    1 After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 2 He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house!’ 6 And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. 7 Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; 9 cure the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town. 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But at the judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades. 16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

    Rev. 7:9-17

    9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. 10 They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 singing, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” 13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?” 14 I said to him, “Sir, you are the one that knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. 16 They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; 17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”