Morning Prayer

Ordinary Time
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14

Confession of Sin
Most merciful God,
I confess that I have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what I have done, and by what I have left undone. I have not loved you with my whole heart; I have not loved my neighbors as myself. I am truly sorry and I humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on me and forgive me; that I may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen

The Invitatory and Psalter

Lord, open our lips. And our mouth shall proclaim your praise
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen   Alleluia

Venite
The Antiphon:

ⓘ   A short, reflective sentence recited alongside a psalm to deepen our understanding of the readings.

The earth is the Lord's for he made it: Come let us adore him.

The Lessons

Psalm 118

⁽¹⁾ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. ⁽²⁾ Let Israel now say, 'His mercy endures forever.' ⁽³⁾ Let the house of Aaron now say, 'His mercy endures forever.' ⁽⁴⁾ Let those who fear the LORD now say, 'His mercy endures forever.'

⁽⁵⁾ I called on the LORD in distress; The LORD answered me and set me in a broad place. ⁽⁶⁾ The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? ⁽⁷⁾ The LORD is for me among those who help me; Therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me. ⁽⁸⁾ It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.

⁽⁹⁾ It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes. ⁽¹⁰⁾ All nations surrounded me, But in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ⁽¹¹⁾ They surrounded me, Yes, they surrounded me; But in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ⁽¹²⁾ They surrounded me like bees; They were quenched like a fire of thorns; For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

⁽¹³⁾ You pushed me violently, that I might fall, But the LORD helped me. ⁽¹⁴⁾ The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation. ⁽¹⁵⁾ The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly. ⁽¹⁶⁾ The right hand of the LORD is exalted; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

⁽¹⁷⁾ I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD. ⁽¹⁸⁾ The LORD has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death. ⁽¹⁹⁾ Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the LORD. ⁽²⁰⁾ This is the gate of the LORD, Through which the righteous shall enter.

⁽²¹⁾ I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation. ⁽²²⁾ The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. ⁽²³⁾ This was the LORD's doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. ⁽²⁴⁾ This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

⁽²⁵⁾ Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity. ⁽²⁶⁾ Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD. ⁽²⁷⁾ God is the LORD, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. ⁽²⁸⁾ You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You.

⁽²⁹⁾ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

2 Samuel Chapter 17

⁽¹⁾ Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, 'Now let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. ⁽²⁾ I will come upon him while he is weary and weak, and make him afraid. And all the people who are with him will flee, and I will strike only the king. ⁽³⁾ Then I will bring back all the people to you. When all return except the man whom you seek, all the people will be at peace.' ⁽⁴⁾ And the saying pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

⁽⁵⁾ Then Absalom said, 'Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he says too.' ⁽⁶⁾ And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, 'Ahithophel has spoken in this manner. Shall we do as he says? If not, speak up.' ⁽⁷⁾ So Hushai said to Absalom: 'The advice that Ahithophel has given is not good at this time. ⁽⁸⁾ For,' said Hushai, 'you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are enraged in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not camp with the people.

⁽⁹⁾ Surely by now he is hidden in some pit, or in some other place. And it will be, when some of them are overthrown at the first, that whoever hears it will say, 'There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.' ⁽¹⁰⁾ And even he who is valiant, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will melt completely. For all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. ⁽¹¹⁾ Therefore I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person. ⁽¹²⁾ So we will come upon him in some place where he may be found, and we will fall on him as the dew falls on the ground. And of him and all the men who are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

⁽¹³⁾ Moreover, if he has withdrawn into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city; and we will pull it into the river, until there is not one small stone found there.' ⁽¹⁴⁾ So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, 'The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.' For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring disaster on Absalom. ⁽¹⁵⁾ Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, 'Thus and so Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so I have advised. ⁽¹⁶⁾ Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, 'Do not spend this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily cross over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.' '

⁽¹⁷⁾ Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed at En Rogel, for they dared not be seen coming into the city; so a female servant would come and tell them, and they would go and tell King David. ⁽¹⁸⁾ Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom. But both of them went away quickly and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into it. ⁽¹⁹⁾ Then the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the thing was not known. ⁽²⁰⁾ And when Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' So the woman said to them, 'They have gone over the water brook.' And when they had searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

⁽²¹⁾ Now it came to pass, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well and went and told King David, and said to David, 'Arise and cross over the water quickly. For thus has Ahithophel advised against you.' ⁽²²⁾ So David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed over the Jordan. By morning light not one of them was left who had not gone over the Jordan. ⁽²³⁾ Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city. Then he put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father's tomb.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Galatians Chapter 3

⁽⁶⁾ just as Abraham 'believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.' ⁽⁷⁾ Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁽⁸⁾ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, 'In you all the nations shall be blessed.' ⁽⁹⁾ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

⁽¹⁰⁾ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.' ⁽¹¹⁾ But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for 'the just shall live by faith.' ⁽¹²⁾ Yet the law is not of faith, but 'the man who does them shall live by them.' ⁽¹³⁾ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree'),

⁽¹⁴⁾ that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

John Chapter 5

⁽³⁰⁾ I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. ⁽³¹⁾ If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. ⁽³²⁾ There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. ⁽³³⁾ You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

⁽³⁴⁾ Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. ⁽³⁵⁾ He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. ⁽³⁶⁾ But I have a greater witness than John's; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish -- the very works that I do -- bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. ⁽³⁷⁾ And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.

⁽³⁸⁾ But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. ⁽³⁹⁾ You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. ⁽⁴⁰⁾ But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. ⁽⁴¹⁾ I do not receive honor from men.

⁽⁴²⁾ But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. ⁽⁴³⁾ I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. ⁽⁴⁴⁾ How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? ⁽⁴⁵⁾ Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you -- Moses, in whom you trust.

⁽⁴⁶⁾ For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. ⁽⁴⁷⁾ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?'

The Gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.


The Song of Zechariah Luke 1: 68 to 79
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;
he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
born of the house of his servant David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old,
that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham,
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
Free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life.
You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High,
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
To give his people knowledge of salvation
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

You are God        
You are God: we praise you;
You are the Lord; we acclaim you;
You are the eternal Father:
All creation worships you.
To you all angels, all the powers of heaven,
Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
The glorious company of apostles praise you.
The noble fellowship of prophets praise you.
The white-robed army of martyrs praise you.
Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you;
Father, of majesty unbounded,
your true and only Son, worthy of all worship,
and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.
You, Christ, are the king of glory,
the eternal Son of the Father.
When you became man to set us free
you did not shun the Virgin's womb.
You overcame the sting of death
and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
You are seated at God's right hand in glory.
We believe that you will come and be our judge.
Come then, Lord, and help your people,
bought with the price of your own blood,
and bring us with your saints
to glory everlasting.


The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord.
  He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
  He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
  He descended to the dead.
  On the third day he rose again.
  He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
  He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
  the holy catholic Church,
  the communion of saints,
  the forgiveness of sins,
  the resurrection of the body,
  and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Prayers

The Lord's Prayer   Traditional
Suffrages A

Seasonal Collect:  Proper 15 The Sunday closest to August 17
Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Collect of the Day: O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Mission: Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

Personal Prayers and Reflection

This is a time to pause, consider and listen. Pray for yourself and others. When you lack the words


Closing Prayers   Thanksgiving

Conclude with the following
Let Us Bless the Lord, Thanks be to God

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen. 2 Corinthians 13:14