Today is the Feast of The Visitation -- Click for Readings
Ordinary Time
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Phillipians 1:2

Saint and Major Saints' Days
Their sound has gone out into all lands, and their message to the ends of the world. Psalm 19:4

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.

The Absolution
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

O God make speed to save us, O Lord make haste to help us

O Gracious Light,
pure brightness of everliving Father in heaven
O Jesus Christ holy and blessed!
Now as we come to the setting of the sun
and our eyes behold the vesper light
we sing your praises O God: Father Son and Holy Spirit.
You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices
O Son of God, O Giver of Life
and to be glorified through all worlds.
The earth is the Lord's for he made it: Come let us adore him.

?The Psalms are unique for the evening, the other lessions can be read in total or those you have not included in Morning Prayer

The Lessons

Psalm 119

⁽²⁵⁾ My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word. ⁽²⁶⁾ I have declared my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes. ⁽²⁷⁾ Make me understand the way of Your precepts; So shall I meditate on Your wondrous works. ⁽²⁸⁾ My soul melts from heaviness; Strengthen me according to Your word.

⁽²⁹⁾ Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously. ⁽³⁰⁾ I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me. ⁽³¹⁾ I cling to Your testimonies; O LORD, do not put me to shame! ⁽³²⁾ I will run the course of Your commandments, For You shall enlarge my heart.

⁽³³⁾ Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, And I shall keep it to the end. ⁽³⁴⁾ Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart. ⁽³⁵⁾ Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it. ⁽³⁶⁾ Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to covetousness.

⁽³⁷⁾ Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way. ⁽³⁸⁾ Establish Your word to Your servant, Who is devoted to fearing You. ⁽³⁹⁾ Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your judgments are good. ⁽⁴⁰⁾ Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness.

⁽⁴¹⁾ Let Your mercies come also to me, O LORD -- Your salvation according to Your word. ⁽⁴²⁾ So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, For I trust in Your word. ⁽⁴³⁾ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, For I have hoped in Your ordinances. ⁽⁴⁴⁾ So shall I keep Your law continually, Forever and ever.

⁽⁴⁵⁾ And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. ⁽⁴⁶⁾ I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, And will not be ashamed. ⁽⁴⁷⁾ And I will delight myself in Your commandments, Which I love. ⁽⁴⁸⁾ My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, Which I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes.

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.

Deuteronomy Chapter 4

⁽²⁵⁾ When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger, ⁽²⁶⁾ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ⁽²⁷⁾ And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. ⁽²⁸⁾ And there you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

⁽²⁹⁾ But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁽³⁰⁾ When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice ⁽³¹⁾ (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

2 Corinthians Chapter 1

⁽²³⁾ Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth. ⁽²⁴⁾ Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand. ⁽¹⁾ But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. ⁽²⁾ For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? ⁽³⁾ And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁽⁴⁾ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

⁽⁵⁾ But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent -- not to be too severe. ⁽⁶⁾ This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man, ⁽⁷⁾ so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. ⁽⁸⁾ Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

⁽⁹⁾ For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. ⁽¹⁰⁾ Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, ⁽¹¹⁾ lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices. ⁽¹²⁾ Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

⁽¹³⁾ I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia. ⁽¹⁴⁾ Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. ⁽¹⁵⁾ For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. ⁽¹⁶⁾ To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

⁽¹⁷⁾ For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Luke Chapter 15

⁽¹⁾ Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. ⁽²⁾ And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, 'This Man receives sinners and eats with them.' ⁽¹¹⁾ Then He said: 'A certain man had two sons. ⁽¹²⁾ And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood. ⁽¹³⁾ And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. ⁽¹⁴⁾ But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

⁽¹⁵⁾ Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. ⁽¹⁶⁾ And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. ⁽¹⁷⁾ But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! ⁽¹⁸⁾ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

⁽¹⁹⁾ and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.' ' ⁽²⁰⁾ And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. ⁽²¹⁾ And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.' ⁽²²⁾ But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

⁽²³⁾ And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; ⁽²⁴⁾ for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' And they began to be merry. ⁽²⁵⁾ Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. ⁽²⁶⁾ So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

⁽²⁷⁾ And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.' ⁽²⁸⁾ But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. ⁽²⁹⁾ So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. ⁽³⁰⁾ But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.'

⁽³¹⁾ And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. ⁽³²⁾ It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.' '

The Gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

?A canticle is a hymn, or other Christian song of praise with lyrics taken from biblical texts

The Canticles

A Song of Creation Prayer of Manasseh 1 to 2, 4, 6 to 7, 11 to 15

Invocation
Glorify the Lord,
all you works of the Lord,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.
In the firmament of his power, glorify the Lord,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.

The Earth and its Creatures

Let the earth glorify the Lord,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.
Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills,
and all that grows upon the earth,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.
Glorify the Lord,
O springs of water, seas, and streams,
O whales and all that move in the waters.
All birds of the air, glorify the Lord,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.

Glorify the Lord,
O beasts of the wild,
and all you flocks and herds.
O men and women everywhere, glorify the Lord,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.

The Doxology

Let us glorify the Lord:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
praise him and highly exalt him forever.
In the firmament of his power, glorify the Lord,
praise him and highly exalt him forever.


The Song of Simeon       Nunc Dimittis Luke 2:29-32  
Lord, you now have set your servant free
to go in peace as you have promised;
For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior,
whom you have prepared for all the world to see:
A Light to enlighten the nations,
and the glory of your people Israel.

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.


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 3 The Sunday closest to May 25
Grant, O Lord, that the course of this world may be peaceably governed by your providence; and that your Church may joyfully serve you in confidence and serenity; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Collect of the Day: Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought us in safety to this new day: Preserve us with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Mission: O God, you manifest in your servants the signs of your presence: Send forth upon us the spirit of love that in companionship with one another your abounding grace may increase among us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Personal Prayers and Reflection

This is a time to pause, consider and listen. Pray for yourself and others.


Closing Prayers   Thanksgiving

Conclude with following
Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20,21



This concludes the Daily Morning Prayer
Go in Peace to Love and Serve the Lord