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Thursday after the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

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The Collect of the Day

Proper 26

The Sunday closest to November 2

Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Willibrord

Pour out your Holy Spirit, O God, upon your church in every land, that like your servant Willibrord we might proclaim the Gospel to all nations, that your kingdom might be enlarged and that your holy Name might be glorified in all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the same Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

74

Ut quid, Deus?BCP p. 689

1O God, why have you utterly cast us off? *why is your wrath so hot against the sheep of your pasture?

2Remember your congregation that you purchased long ago, *the tribe you redeemed to be your inheritance, and Mount Zion where you dwell.

3Turn your steps toward the endless ruins; *the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary.

4Your adversaries roared in your holy place; *they set up their banners as tokens of victory.

5They were like men coming up with axes to a grove of trees; *they broke down all your carved work with hatchets and hammers.

6They set fire to your holy place; *they defiled the dwelling-place of your Name and razed it to the ground.

7They said to themselves, “Let us destroy them altogether.” *They burned down all the meeting-places of God in the land.

8There are no signs for us to see; there is no prophet left; *there is not one among us who knows how long.

9How long, O God, will the adversary scoff? *will the enemy blaspheme your Name for ever?

10Why do you draw back your hand? *why is your right hand hidden in your bosom?

11Yet God is my King from ancient times, *victorious in the midst of the earth.

12You divided the sea by your might *and shattered the heads of the dragons upon the waters;

13You crushed the heads of Leviathan *and gave him to the people of the desert for food.

14You split open spring and torrent; *you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

15Yours is the day, yours also the night; *you established the moon and the sun.

16You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; *you made both summer and winter.

17Remember, O Lord, how the enemy scoffed, *how a foolish people despised your Name.

18Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; *never forget the lives of your poor.

19Look upon your covenant; *the dark places of the earth are haunts of violence.

20Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed; *let the poor and needy praise your Name.

21Arise, O God, maintain your cause; *remember how fools revile you all day long.

22Forget not the clamor of your adversaries, *the unending tumult of those who rise up against you.

Daily Office Readings

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Rev. 16:12-21

12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 And I saw three foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet. 14 These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 15 (“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.”) 16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Harmagedon. 17 The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a violent earthquake, such as had not occurred since people were upon the earth, so violent was that earthquake. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered great Babylon and gave her the wine-cup of the fury of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found; 21 and huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, dropped from heaven on people, until they cursed God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that plague.

Ecclus. 44:1-15

1 Let us now sing the praises of famous men,    our ancestors in their generations. 2 The Lord apportioned to them great glory,    his majesty from the beginning. 3 There were those who ruled in their kingdoms,    and made a name for themselves by their valour; those who gave counsel because they were intelligent;    those who spoke in prophetic oracles; 4 those who led the people by their counsels    and by their knowledge of the people’s lore;    they were wise in their words of instruction; 5 those who composed musical tunes,    or put verses in writing; 6 rich men endowed with resources,    living peacefully in their homes— 7 all these were honoured in their generations,    and were the pride of their times. 8 Some of them have left behind a name,    so that others declare their praise. 9 But of others there is no memory;    they have perished as though they had never existed; they have become as though they had never been born,    they and their children after them. 10 But these also were godly men,    whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten; 11 their wealth will remain with their descendants,    and their inheritance with their children’s children. 12 Their descendants stand by the covenants;    their children also, for their sake. 13 Their offspring will continue for ever,    and their glory will never be blotted out. 14 Their bodies are buried in peace,    but their name lives on generation after generation. 15 The assembly declares their wisdom, and the congregation proclaims their praise.

Luke 13:18-30

18 He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? 19 It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.” 20 And again he said, “To what should I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.” 22 Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. 29 Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”