Daily Readings: May 20, 2024

Monday after Pentecost

Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804

Morning	Evening
Psalm 1 Psalm 2 Psalm 3	Psalm 4 Psalm 7
Prov. 3:11-20 1 John 3:18-4:6 Matt. 11:1-6

The Collect of the Day

Proper 2

Week of the Sunday closest to May 18

Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness keep us, we pray, from all things that may hurt us, that we, being ready both in mind and body, may accomplish with free hearts those things which belong to your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever; Amen.No Proper Preface is used. Amen.

Alcuin of York

Almighty God, who raised up your servant Alcuin as a beacon of learning: Shine in our hearts, we pray that we may also show forth your praise in our own generation, for you have called us out of darkness and into your marvelous light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalms

1

Beatus vir qui non abiitBCP p. 585

¹Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, *nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful!

²Their delight is in the law of the Lord, *and they meditate on his law day and night.

³They are like trees planted by streams of water, bearing fruit in due season, with leaves that do not wither; *everything they do shall prosper.

⁴It is not so with the wicked; *they are like chaff which the wind blows away.

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes, *nor the sinner in the council of the righteous.

⁶For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, *but the way of the wicked is doomed.

2

Quare fremuerunt gentes?BCP p. 586

¹Why are the nations in an uproar? *Why do the peoples mutter empty threats?

²Why do the kings of the earth rise up in revolt, and the princes plot together, *against the Lord and against his Anointed?

³“Let us break their yoke,” they say; *“let us cast off their bonds from us.”

⁴He whose throne is in heaven is laughing; *the Lord has them in derision.

⁵Then he speaks to them in his wrath, *and his rage fills them with terror.

⁶“I myself have set my king *upon my holy hill of Zion.”

⁷Let me announce the decree of the Lord: *he said to me, “You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

⁸Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance *and the ends of the earth for your possession.

⁹You shall crush them with an iron rod *and shatter them like a piece of pottery.”

¹⁰And now, you kings, be wise; *be warned, you rulers of the earth.

¹¹Submit to the Lord with fear, *and with trembling bow before him;

¹²Lest he be angry and you perish; *for his wrath is quickly kindled.

¹³Happy are they all *who take refuge in him!

3

Domine, quid multiplicatiBCP p. 587

¹Lord, how many adversaries I have! *how many there are who rise up against me!

²How many there are who say of me, *“There is no help for him in his God.”

³But you, O Lord, are a shield about me; *you are my glory, the one who lifts up my head.

⁴I call aloud upon the Lord, *and he answers me from his holy hill;

⁵I lie down and go to sleep; *I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.

⁶I do not fear the multitudes of people *who set themselves against me all around.

⁷Rise up, O Lord; set me free, O my God; *surely, you will strike all my enemies across the face, you will break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸Deliverance belongs to the Lord. *Your blessing be upon your people!

Daily Office Readings

¹⁸Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. ¹⁹And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him ²⁰whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. ²¹Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; ²²and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him. ²³And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. ²⁴All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us. ¹Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. ²By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world. ⁴Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. ⁵They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.