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Wednesday after the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

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    The Collect of the Day

    Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

    O God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because in our weakness we can do nothing good without you, give us the help of your grace, that in keeping your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    101

    Misericordiam ed judiciumBCP p. 730

    1I will sing of mercy and justice; *to you, O Lord, will I sing praises.

    2I will strive to follow a blameless course; oh, when will you come to me? *I will walk with sincerity of heart within my house.

    3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; *I hate the doers of evil deeds; they shall not remain with me.

    4A crooked heart shall be far from me; *I will not know evil.

    5Those who in secret slander their neighbors I will destroy; *those who have a haughty look and a proud heart I cannot abide.

    6My eyes are upon the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me, *and only those who lead a blameless life shall be my servants.

    7Those who act deceitfully shall not dwell in my house, *and those who tell lies shall not continue in my sight.

    8I will soon destroy all the wicked in the land, *that I may root out all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

    109

    Deus, laudemBCP p. 750

    1Hold not your tongue, O God of my praise; *for the mouth of the wicked, the mouth of the deceitful, is opened against me.

    2They speak to me with a lying tongue; *they encompass me with hateful words and fight against me without a cause.

    3Despite my love, they accuse me; *but as for me, I pray for them.

    4They repay evil for good, *and hatred for my love.

    5Set a wicked man against him, *and let an accuser stand at his right hand.

    6When he is judged, let him be found guilty, *and let his appeal be in vain.

    7Let his days be few, *and let another take his office.

    8Let his children be fatherless, *and his wife become a widow.

    9Let his children be waifs and beggars; *let them be driven from the ruins of their homes.

    10Let the creditor seize everything he has; *let strangers plunder his gains.

    11Let there be no one to show him kindness, *and none to pity his fatherless children.

    12Let his descendants be destroyed, *and his name be blotted out in the next generation.

    13Let the wickedness of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, *and his mother’s sin not be blotted out;

    14Let their sin be always before the Lord; *but let him root out their names from the earth;

    15Because he did not remember to show mercy, *but persecuted the poor and needy and sought to kill the brokenhearted.

    16He loved cursing, let it come upon him; *he took no delight in blessing, let it depart from him.

    17He put on cursing like a garment, *let it soak into his body like water and into his bones like oil;

    18Let it be to him like the cloak which he wraps around himself, *and like the belt that he wears continually.

    19Let this be the recompense from the Lord to my accusers, *and to those who speak evil against me.

    20But you, O Lord my God, oh, deal with me according to your Name; *for your tender mercy’s sake, deliver me.

    21For I am poor and needy, *and my heart is wounded within me.

    22I have faded away like a shadow when it lengthens; *I am shaken off like a locust.

    23My knees are weak through fasting, *and my flesh is wasted and gaunt.

    24I have become a reproach to them; *they see and shake their heads.

    25Help me, O Lord my God; *save me for your mercy’s sake.

    26Let them know that this is your hand, *that you, O Lord, have done it.

    27They may curse, but you will bless; *let those who rise up against me be put to shame, and your servant will rejoice.

    28Let my accusers be clothed with disgrace *and wrap themselves in their shame as in a cloak.

    29I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth; *in the midst of the multitude will I praise him;

    30Because he stands at the right hand of the needy, *to save his life from those who would condemn him.

    Daily Office Readings

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    1 Tim. 3:1-16

    1 The saying is sure: whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task. 2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way— 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the snare of the devil. 8 Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money; 9 they must hold fast to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10 And let them first be tested; then, if they prove themselves blameless, let them serve as deacons. 11 Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be married only once, and let them manage their children and their households well; 13 for those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus. 14 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that, 15 if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. 16 Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

    Isa 63:15-64:9

    15 Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are withheld from me. 16 For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our father; our Redeemer from of old is your name. 17 Why, O Lord, do you make us stray from your ways and harden our heart, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, for the sake of the tribes that are your heritage. 18 Your holy people took possession for a little while; but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary. 19 We have long been like those whom you do not rule, like those not called by your name. 1 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— 2 as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! 3 When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. 4 From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him. 5 You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed. 6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7 There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. 8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. 9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.

    Mark 11:27-12:12

    27 Again they came to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him 28 and said, ‘By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?’ 29 Jesus said to them, ‘I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 30 Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin? Answer me.’ 31 They argued with one another, ‘If we say, “From heaven”, he will say, “Why then did you not believe him?” 32 But shall we say, “Of human origin”?’—they were afraid of the crowd, for all regarded John as truly a prophet. 33 So they answered Jesus, ‘We do not know.’ And Jesus said to them, ‘Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.’ 1 Then he began to speak to them in parables. ‘A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watch-tower; then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 2 When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. 3 But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. 4 And again he sent another slave to them; this one they beat over the head and insulted. 5 Then he sent another, and that one they killed. And so it was with many others; some they beat, and others they killed. 6 He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, “They will respect my son.” 7 But those tenants said to one another, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.” 8 So they seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this scripture: “The stone that the builders rejected    has become the cornerstone; 11 this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes”?’ 12 When they realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away.