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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

    26

    Judica me, DomineBCP p. 616

    1Give judgment for me, O Lord, for I have lived with integrity; *I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.

    2Test me, O Lord, and try me; *examine my heart and my mind.

    3For your love is before my eyes; *I have walked faithfully with you.

    4I have not sat with the worthless, *nor do I consort with the deceitful.

    5I have hated the company of evildoers; *I will not sit down with the wicked.

    6I will wash my hands in innocence, O Lord, *that I may go in procession round your altar,

    7Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving *and recounting all your wonderful deeds.

    8Lord, I love the house in which you dwell *and the place where your glory abides.

    9Do not sweep me away with sinners, *nor my life with those who thirst for blood,

    10Whose hands are full of evil plots, *and their right hand full of bribes.

    11As for me, I will live with integrity; *redeem me, O Lord, and have pity on me.

    12My foot stands on level ground; *in the full assembly I will bless the Lord.

    28

    Ad te, DomineBCP p. 619

    1O Lord, I call to you; my Rock, do not be deaf to my cry; *lest, if you do not hear me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.

    2Hear the voice of my prayer when I cry out to you, *when I lift up my hands to your holy of holies.

    3Do not snatch me away with the wicked or with the evildoers, *who speak peaceably with their neighbors, while strife is in their hearts.

    4Repay them according to their deeds, *and according to the wickedness of their actions.

    5According to the work of their hands repay them, *and give them their just deserts.

    6They have no understanding of the Lord’s doings, nor of the works of his hands; *therefore he will break them down and not build them up.

    7Blessed is the Lord! *for he has heard the voice of my prayer.

    8The Lord is my strength and my shield; *my heart trusts in him, and I have been helped;

    9Therefore my heart dances for joy, *and in my song will I praise him.

    10The Lord is the strength of his people, *a safe refuge for his anointed.

    11Save your people and bless your inheritance; *shepherd them and carry them for ever.

    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.”