Daily Readings: October 9, 2024

Wednesday after the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253

Morning	Evening
Psalm 119:145-176	Psalm 128 Psalm 129 Psalm 130
Micah 2:1-13 Acts 23:23-35 Luke 7:18-35

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.

Robert Grosseteste

O God, our heavenly Father, who raised up your faithful servant Robert Grosseteste to be a bishop and pastor in your church and to feed your flock: Give abundantly to all pastors the gifts of your Holy Spirit, that they may minister in your household as true servants of Christ and stewards of your divine mysteries; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

119 Qoph

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¹⁴⁵I call with my whole heart; *answer me, O Lord, that I may keep your statutes.

¹⁴⁶I call to you; oh, that you would save me! *I will keep your decrees.

¹⁴⁷Early in the morning I cry out to you, *for in your word is my trust.

¹⁴⁸My eyes are open in the night watches, *that I may meditate upon your promise.

¹⁴⁹Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your loving-kindness; *according to your judgments, give me life.

¹⁵⁰They draw near who in malice persecute me; *they are very far from your law.

¹⁵¹You, O Lord, are near at hand, *and all your commandments are true.

¹⁵²Long have I known from your decrees *that you have established them for ever.

Resh

Vide humilitatem

¹⁵³Behold my affliction and deliver me, *for I do not forget your law.

¹⁵⁴Plead my cause and redeem me; *according to your promise, give me life.

¹⁵⁵Deliverance is far from the wicked, *for they do not study your statutes.

¹⁵⁶Great is your compassion, O Lord; *preserve my life, according to your judgments.

¹⁵⁷There are many who persecute and oppress me, *yet I have not swerved from your decrees.

¹⁵⁸I look with loathing at the faithless, *for they have not kept your word.

¹⁵⁹See how I love your commandments! *O Lord, in your mercy, preserve me.

¹⁶⁰The heart of your word is truth; *all your righteous judgments endure for evermore.

Shin

Principes persecuti sunt

¹⁶¹Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, *but my heart stands in awe of your word.

¹⁶²I am as glad because of your promise *as one who finds great spoils.

¹⁶³As for lies, I hate and abhor them, *but your law is my love.

¹⁶⁴Seven times a day do I praise you, *because of your righteous judgments.

¹⁶⁵Great peace have they who love your law; *for them there is no stumbling block.

¹⁶⁶I have hoped for your salvation, O Lord, *and have fulfilled your commandments.

¹⁶⁷I have kept your decrees *and I have loved them deeply.

¹⁶⁸I have kept your commandments and decrees, *for all my ways are before you.

Taw

Appropinquet deprecatio

¹⁶⁹Let my cry come before you, O Lord; *give me understanding, according to your word.

¹⁷⁰Let my supplication come before you; *deliver me, according to your promise.

¹⁷¹My lips shall pour forth your praise, *when you teach me your statutes.

¹⁷²My tongue shall sing of your promise, *for all your commandments are righteous.

¹⁷³Let your hand be ready to help me, *for I have chosen your commandments.

¹⁷⁴I long for your salvation, O Lord, *and your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁵Let me live, and I will praise you, *and let your judgments help me.

¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost; *search for your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Daily Office Readings

Luke 7:18-35

A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.

¹⁸The disciples of John reported all these things to him. So John summoned two of his disciples ¹⁹and sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” ²⁰When the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’” ²¹Jesus had just then cured many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind. ²²And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them. ²³And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.” ²⁴When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? ²⁵What then did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who put on fine clothing and live in luxury are in royal palaces. ²⁶What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. ²⁷This is the one about whom it is written, ‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’ ²⁸I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” ²⁹(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism. ³⁰But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves.) ³¹“To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? ³²They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’ ³³For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon’; ³⁴the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ ³⁵Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

¹Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power. ²They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance. ³Therefore thus says the Lord: Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time. ⁴On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, “We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.” ⁵Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord. ⁶“Do not preach” —thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.” ⁷Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Lord’s patience exhausted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to one who walks uprightly? ⁸But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war. ⁹The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever. ¹⁰Arise and go; for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction. ¹¹If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people! ¹²I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the survivors of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture; it will resound with people. ¹³The one who breaks out will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.