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Monday after the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

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The Collect of the Day

Proper 19

The Sunday closest to September 14

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Ninian

O God, who by the preaching of your blessed servant and bishop Ninian caused the light of the Gospel to shine in the land of Britain: Grant, we pray, that having his life and labors in remembrance we may show our thankfulness by following the example of his zeal and patience; 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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Miserere mei, DeusBCP p. 662

1Have mercy on me, O God, for my enemies are hounding me; *all day long they assault and oppress me.

2They hound me all the day long; *truly there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

3Whenever I am afraid, *I will put my trust in you.

4In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust and will not be afraid, *for what can flesh do to me?

5All day long they damage my cause; *their only thought is to do me evil.

6They band together; they lie in wait; *they spy upon my footsteps; because they seek my life.

7Shall they escape despite their wickedness? *O God, in your anger, cast down the peoples.

8You have noted my lamentation; put my tears into your bottle; *are they not recorded in your book?

9Whenever I call upon you, my enemies will be put to flight; *this I know, for God is on my side.

10In God the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust and will not be afraid, *for what can mortals do to me?

11I am bound by the vow I made to you, O God; *I will present to you thank-offerings;

12For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from stumbling, *that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

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Miserere mei, DeusBCP p. 663

1Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful, for I have taken refuge in you; *in the shadow of your wings will I take refuge until this time of trouble has gone by.

2I will call upon the Most High God, *the God who maintains my cause.

3He will send from heaven and save me; he will confound those who trample upon me; *God will send forth his love and his faithfulness.

4I lie in the midst of lions that devour the people; *their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongue a sharp sword.

5They have laid a net for my feet, and I am bowed low; *they have dug a pit before me, but have fallen into it themselves.

6Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

7My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; *I will sing and make melody.

8Wake up, my spirit; awake, lute and harp; *I myself will waken the dawn.

9I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord; *I will sing praise to you among the nations.

10For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens, *and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

11Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

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Si vere utiqueBCP p. 664

1Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers? *do you judge the peoples with equity?

2No; you devise evil in your hearts, *and your hands deal out violence in the land.

3The wicked are perverse from the womb; *liars go astray from their birth.

4They are as venomous as a serpent, *they are like the deaf adder which stops its ears,

5Which does not heed the voice of the charmer, *no matter how skillful his charming.

6O God, break their teeth in their mouths; *pull the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

7Let them vanish like water that runs off; *let them wither like trodden grass.

8Let them be like the snail that melts away, *like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

9Before they bear fruit, let them be cut down like a brier; *like thorns and thistles let them be swept away.

10The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance; *they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

11And they will say, “Surely, there is a reward for the righteous; *surely, there is a God who rules in the earth.”

Daily Office Readings

Job 40:1-24

A Reading from the Book of Job.

1 And the Lord said to Job: 2 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.” 3 Then Job answered the Lord: 4 “See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but will proceed no further.” 6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: 7 “Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me. 8 Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified? 9 Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? 10 “Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor. 11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on all who are proud, and abase them. 12 Look on all who are proud, and bring them low; tread down the wicked where they stand. 13 Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below. 14 Then I will also acknowledge to you that your own right hand can give you victory. 15 “Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you; it eats grass like an ox. 16 Its strength is in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly. 17 It makes its tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are knit together. 18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron. 19 “It is the first of the great acts of God— only its Maker can approach it with the sword. 20 For the mountains yield food for it where all the wild animals play. 21 Under the lotus plants it lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh. 22 The lotus trees cover it for shade; the willows of the wadi surround it. 23 Even if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident though Jordan rushes against its mouth. 24 Can one take it with hooks or pierce its nose with a snare?

Acts 15:36-16:5

A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the believers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” 37 Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. 38 But Paul decided not to take with them one who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work. 39 The disagreement became so sharp that they parted company; Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus. 40 But Paul chose Silas and set out, the believers commending him to the grace of the Lord. 41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. 1 Paul went on also to Derbe and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek. 2 He was well spoken of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium. 3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4 As they went from town to town, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. 5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in numbers daily.

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John 11:55-12:8

55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. 56 They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?” 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him. 1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6 (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. 8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”