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Friday 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

    31

    In te, Domine, speraviBCP p. 622

    1In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; *deliver me in your righteousness.

    2Incline your ear to me; *make haste to deliver me.

    3Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe, for you are my crag and my stronghold; *for the sake of your Name, lead me and guide me.

    4Take me out of the net that they have secretly set for me, *for you are my tower of strength.

    5Into your hands I commend my spirit, *for you have redeemed me, O Lord, O God of truth.

    6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, *and I put my trust in the Lord.

    7I will rejoice and be glad because of your mercy; *for you have seen my affliction; you know my distress.

    8You have not shut me up in the power of the enemy; *you have set my feet in an open place.

    9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; *my eye is consumed with sorrow, and also my throat and my belly.

    10For my life is wasted with grief, and my years with sighing; *my strength fails me because of affliction, and my bones are consumed.

    11I have become a reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbors, a dismay to those of my acquaintance; *when they see me in the street they avoid me.

    12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; *I am as useless as a broken pot.

    13For I have heard the whispering of the crowd; fear is all around; *they put their heads together against me; they plot to take my life.

    14But as for me, I have trusted in you, O Lord. *I have said, “You are my God.

    15My times are in your hand; *rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

    16Make your face to shine upon your servant, *and in your loving-kindness save me.”

    17Lord, let me not be ashamed for having called upon you; *rather, let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in the grave.

    18Let the lying lips be silenced which speak against the righteous, *haughtily, disdainfully, and with contempt.

    19How great is your goodness, O Lord! which you have laid up for those who fear you; *which you have done in the sight of all for those who put their trust in you.

    20You hide them in the covert of your presence from those who slander them; *you keep them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

    21Blessed be the Lord! *for he has shown me the wonders of his love in a besieged city.

    22Yet I said in my alarm, “I have been cut off from the sight of your eyes.” *Nevertheless, you heard the sound of my entreaty when I cried out to you.

    23Love the Lord, all you who worship him; *the Lord protects the faithful, but repays to the full those who act haughtily.

    24Be strong and let your heart take courage, *all you who wait for the Lord.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Ecclus. 11:2-20

    2 Do not praise individuals for their good looks,    or loathe anyone because of appearance alone. 3 The bee is small among flying creatures,    but what it produces is the best of sweet things. 4 Do not boast about wearing fine clothes,    and do not exalt yourself when you are honoured; for the works of the Lord are wonderful,    and his works are concealed from humankind. 5 Many kings have had to sit on the ground,    but one who was never thought of has worn a crown. 6 Many rulers have been utterly disgraced, and the honoured have been handed over to others. 7 Do not find fault before you investigate;    examine first, and then criticize. 8 Do not answer before you listen,    and do not interrupt when another is speaking. 9 Do not argue about a matter that does not concern you, and do not sit with sinners when they judge a case. 10 My child, do not busy yourself with many matters;    if you multiply activities, you will not be held blameless. If you pursue, you will not overtake,    and by fleeing you will not escape. 11 There are those who work and struggle and hurry,    but are so much the more in want. 12 There are others who are slow and need help,    who lack strength and abound in poverty; but the eyes of the Lord look kindly upon them;    he lifts them out of their lowly condition 13 and raises up their heads to the amazement of many. 14 Good things and bad, life and death,    poverty and wealth, come from the Lord. 17 The Lord’s gift remains with the devout,    and his favour brings lasting success. 18 One becomes rich through diligence and self-denial,    and the reward allotted to him is this: 19 when he says, ‘I have found rest, and now I shall feast on my goods!’ he does not know how long it will be until he leaves them to others and dies. 20 Stand by your agreement and attend to it, and grow old in your work.

    Rev. 9:13-21

    13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of humankind. 16 The number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number. 17 And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur; the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they inflict harm. 20 The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. 21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts.

    Luke 10:38-42

    38 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. 40 But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; 42 there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”