Daily Readings: November 23, 2024

Saturday after the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100

Morning	Evening
Psalm 107:33-43 Psalm 108:1-6(7-13)	Psalm 33
Mal. 3:13-4:6 James 5:13-20 Luke 18:9-14

The Collect of the Day

Proper 28

The Sunday closest to November 16

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Clement of Rome

Almighty God, who chose your servant Clement of Rome to recall the church in Corinth to obedience and stability: Grant that your church may be grounded and settled in your truth by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; reveal to it what is not yet known; fill up what is lacking; confirm what has already been revealed; and keep it blameless in your service; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

107 Part II

Confitemini DominoBCP p. 746

³³The Lord changed rivers into deserts, *and water-springs into thirsty ground,

³⁴A fruitful land into salt flats, *because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

³⁵He changed deserts into pools of water *and dry land into water-springs.

³⁶He settled the hungry there, *and they founded a city to dwell in.

³⁷They sowed fields, and planted vineyards, *and brought in a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blessed them, so that they increased greatly; *he did not let their herds decrease.

³⁹Yet when they were diminished and brought low, *through stress of adversity and sorrow,

⁴⁰(He pours contempt on princes *and makes them wander in trackless wastes)

⁴¹He lifted up the poor out of misery *and multiplied their families like flocks of sheep.

⁴²The upright will see this and rejoice, *but all wickedness will shut its mouth.

⁴³Whoever is wise will ponder these things, *and consider well the mercies of the Lord.

108

Paratum cor meumBCP p. 749

¹My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; *I will sing and make melody.

²Wake up, my spirit; awake, lute and harp; *I myself will waken the dawn.

³I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord; *I will sing praises to you among the nations.

⁴For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens, *and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

⁶So that those who are dear to you may be delivered, *save with your right hand and answer me.

⁷God spoke from his holy place and said, *“I will exult and parcel out Shechem; I will divide the valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine; *Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my scepter.

⁹Moab is my washbasin, on Edom I throw down my sandal to claim it, *and over Philistia will I shout in triumph.”

¹⁰Who will lead me into the strong city? *who will bring me into Edom?

¹¹Have you not cast us off, O God? *you no longer go out, O God, with our armies.

¹²Grant us your help against the enemy, *for vain is the help of man.

¹³With God we will do valiant deeds, *and he shall tread our enemies under foot.

Daily Office Readings

¹³You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have we spoken against you?” ¹⁴You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts? ¹⁵Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.” ¹⁶Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name. ¹⁷They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them. ¹⁸Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. ¹See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. ²But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. ³And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts. ⁴Remember the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. ⁵Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. ⁶He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.