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Friday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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The Collect of the Day

Proper 18

The Sunday closest to September 7

Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Cyprian of Carthage

Almighty God, who gave to your servant Cyprian boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

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Expectans, expectaviBCP p. 640

1I waited patiently upon the Lord; *he stooped to me and heard my cry.

2He lifted me out of the desolate pit, out of the mire and clay; *he set my feet upon a high cliff and made my footing sure.

3He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; *many shall see, and stand in awe, and put their trust in the Lord.

4Happy are they who trust in the Lord! *they do not resort to evil spirits or turn to false gods.

5Great things are they that you have done, O Lord my God! how great your wonders and your plans for us! *there is none who can be compared with you.

6Oh, that I could make them known and tell them! *but they are more than I can count.

7In sacrifice and offering you take no pleasure *(you have given me ears to hear you);

8Burnt-offering and sin-offering you have not required, *and so I said, “Behold, I come.

9In the roll of the book it is written concerning me: *‘I love to do your will, O my God; your law is deep in my heart.’”

10I proclaimed righteousness in the great congregation; *behold, I did not restrain my lips; and that, O Lord, you know.

11Your righteousness have I not hidden in my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your deliverance; *I have not concealed your love and faithfulness from the great congregation.

12You are the Lord; do not withhold your compassion from me; *let your love and your faithfulness keep me safe for ever,

13For innumerable troubles have crowded upon me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see; *they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; *O Lord, make haste to help me.

15Let them be ashamed and altogether dismayed who seek after my life to destroy it; *let them draw back and be disgraced who take pleasure in my misfortune.

16Let those who say “Aha!” and gloat over me be confounded, *because they are ashamed.

17Let all who seek you rejoice in you and be glad; *let those who love your salvation continually say, “Great is the Lord!”

18Though I am poor and afflicted, *the Lord will have regard for me.

19You are my helper and my deliverer; *do not tarry, O my God.

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1Save me, O God, by your Name; *in your might, defend my cause.

2Hear my prayer, O God; *give ear to the words of my mouth.

3For the arrogant have risen up against me, and the ruthless have sought my life, *those who have no regard for God.

4Behold, God is my helper; *it is the Lord who sustains my life.

5Render evil to those who spy on me; *in your faithfulness, destroy them.

6I will offer you a freewill sacrifice *and praise your Name, O Lord, for it is good.

7For you have rescued me from every trouble, *and my eye has seen the ruin of my foes.

Daily Office Readings

Job 29:1,31:24-40

A Reading from the Book of Job.

1 Job again took up his discourse and said: 24 “If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence; 25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much; 26 if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, 27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand; 28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above. 29 “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook them— 30 I have not let my mouth sin by asking for their lives with a curse— 31 if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’ — 32 the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler— 33 if I have concealed my transgressions as others do, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, 34 because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors— 35 Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! 36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown; 37 I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him. 38 “If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together; 39 if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners; 40 let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Acts 15:12-21

A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

12 The whole assembly kept silence, and listened to Barnabas and Paul as they told of all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles. 13 After they finished speaking, James replied, “My brothers, listen to me. 14 Simeon has related how God first looked favorably on the Gentiles, to take from among them a people for his name. 15 This agrees with the words of the prophets, as it is written, 16 ‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the dwelling of David, which has fallen; from its ruins I will rebuild it, and I will set it up, 17 so that all other peoples may seek the Lord— even all the Gentiles over whom my name has been called. Thus says the Lord, who has been making these things 18 known from long ago.’ 19 Therefore I have reached the decision that we should not trouble those Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood. 21 For in every city, for generations past, Moses has had those who proclaim him, for he has been read aloud every sabbath in the synagogues.”

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John 11:30-44

30 Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. 34 He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus began to weep. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” 38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”