Daily Readings: May 6, 2024

Monday after the Sixth Sunday of Easter

Rogation Day

Morning	Evening
Psalm 80	Psalm 77 Psalm 79
Lev. 25:35-55 Col. 1:9-14 Matt. 13:1-16

The Collect of the Day

Sixth Sunday of Easter

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

19. For Rogation Days

I. For fruitful seasons

Almighty God, Lord of heaven and earth: We humbly pray that your gracious providence may give and preserve to our use the harvests of the land and of the seas, and may prosper all who labor to gather them, that we, who are constantly receiving good things from your hand, may always give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

19. For Rogation Days

II. For commerce and industry

Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ in his earthly life shared our toil and hallowed our labor: Be present with your people where they work; make those who carry on the industries and commerce of this land responsive to your will; and give to us all a pride in what we do, and a just return for our labor; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

19. For Rogation Days

III. For stewardship of creation

O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature: Make us always thankful for your loving providence; and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your good gifts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

80

Qui regis IsraelBCP p. 702

¹Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock; *shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim.

²In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, *stir up your strength and come to help us.

³Restore us, O God of hosts; *show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

⁴O Lord God of hosts, *how long will you be angered despite the prayers of your people?

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears; *you have given them bowls of tears to drink.

⁶You have made us the derision of our neighbors, *and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts; *show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

⁸You have brought a vine out of Egypt; *you cast out the nations and planted it.

⁹You prepared the ground for it; *it took root and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shadow *and the towering cedar trees by its boughs.

¹¹You stretched out its tendrils to the Sea *and its branches to the River.

¹²Why have you broken down its wall, *so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?

¹³The wild boar of the forest has ravaged it, *and the beasts of the field have grazed upon it.

¹⁴Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven; behold and tend this vine; *preserve what your right hand has planted.

¹⁵They burn it with fire like rubbish; *at the rebuke of your countenance let them perish.

¹⁶Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, *and son of man you have made so strong for yourself.

¹⁷And so will we never turn away from you; *give us life, that we may call upon your Name.

¹⁸Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; *show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

Daily Office Readings

³⁵If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident aliens. ³⁶Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you. ³⁷You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit. ³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God. ³⁹If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves. ⁴⁰They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. ⁴¹Then they and their children with them shall be free from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property. ⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold. ⁴³You shall not rule over them with harshness, but shall fear your God. ⁴⁴As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves. ⁴⁵You may also acquire them from among the aliens residing with you, and from their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property. ⁴⁶You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your fellow Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness. ⁴⁷If resident aliens among you prosper, and if any of your kin fall into difficulty with one of them and sell themselves to an alien, or to a branch of the alien’s family, ⁴⁸after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them, ⁴⁹or their uncle or their uncle’s son may redeem them, or anyone of their family who is of their own flesh may redeem them; or if they prosper they may redeem themselves. ⁵⁰They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer. ⁵¹If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price; ⁵²and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption. ⁵³As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien’s authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight. ⁵⁴And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go free in the jubilee year. ⁵⁵For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.