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The Last Sunday after the Epiphany

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    The Collect of the Day

    Last Sunday after the Epiphany

    O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

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    Laudate DominumBCP p. 805

    1Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; *praise him in the heights.

    2Praise him, all you angels of his; *praise him, all his host.

    3Praise him, sun and moon; *praise him, all you shining stars.

    4Praise him, heaven of heavens, *and you waters above the heavens.

    5Let them praise the Name of the Lord; *for he commanded, and they were created.

    6He made them stand fast for ever and ever; *he gave them a law which shall not pass away.

    7Praise the Lord from the earth, *you sea-monsters and all deeps;

    8Fire and hail, snow and fog, *tempestuous wind, doing his will;

    9Mountains and all hills, *fruit trees and all cedars;

    10Wild beasts and all cattle, *creeping things and wingèd birds;

    11Kings of the earth and all peoples, *princes and all rulers of the world;

    12Young men and maidens, *old and young together.

    13Let them praise the Name of the Lord, *for his Name only is exalted, his splendor is over earth and heaven.

    14He has raised up strength for his people and praise for all his loyal servants, *the children of Israel, a people who are near him. Hallelujah!

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    1Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song; *sing his praise in the congregation of the faithful.

    2Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; *let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

    3Let them praise his Name in the dance; *let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.

    4For the Lord takes pleasure in his people *and adorns the poor with victory.

    5Let the faithful rejoice in triumph; *let them be joyful on their beds.

    6Let the praises of God be in their throat *and a two-edged sword in their hand;

    7To wreak vengeance on the nations *and punishment on the peoples;

    8To bind their kings in chains *and their nobles with links of iron;

    9To inflict on them the judgment decreed; *this is glory for all his faithful people. Hallelujah!

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    Laudate DomiBCP p. 807

    1Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy temple; *praise him in the firmament of his power.

    2Praise him for his mighty acts; *praise him for his excellent greatness.

    3Praise him with the blast of the ram’s-horn; *Praise him with lyre and harp.

    4Praise him with timbrel and dance; *praise him with strings and pipe.

    5Praise him with resounding cymbals; *praise him with loud-clanging cymbals.

    6Let everything that has breath *praise the Lord. Hallelujah!

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    Ecclus. 48:1-11

    1 Then Elijah arose, a prophet like fire,    and his word burned like a torch. 2 He brought a famine upon them,    and by his zeal he made them few in number. 3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens,    and also three times brought down fire. 4 How glorious you were, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!    Whose glory is equal to yours? 5 You raised a corpse from death    and from Hades, by the word of the Most High. 6 You sent kings down to destruction,    and famous men, from their sickbeds. 7 You heard rebuke at Sinai    and judgements of vengeance at Horeb. 8 You anointed kings to inflict retribution,    and prophets to succeed you. 9 You were taken up by a whirlwind of fire,    in a chariot with horses of fire. 10 At the appointed time, it is written, you are destined    to calm the wrath of God before it breaks out in fury, to turn the hearts of parents to their children,    and to restore the tribes of Jacob. 11 Happy are those who saw you and were adorned with your love! For we also shall surely live.

    Luke 9:18-27

    18 Once when Jesus was praying alone, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” 19 They answered, “John the Baptist; but others, Elijah; and still others, that one of the ancient prophets has arisen.” 20 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Messiah of God.” 21 He sternly ordered and commanded them not to tell anyone, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” 23 Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. 25 What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose or forfeit themselves? 26 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words, of them the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. 27 But truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”

    2 Cor. 3:7-18

    7 Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’ face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, 8 how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! 10 Indeed, what once had glory has lost its glory because of the greater glory; 11 for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory! 12 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, 13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. 14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside. 15 Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.