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.

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 mercy of the Lord is everlasting: 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 91

⁽¹⁾ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ⁽²⁾ I will say of the LORD, 'He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.' ⁽³⁾ Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence. ⁽⁴⁾ He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

⁽⁵⁾ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, ⁽⁶⁾ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. ⁽⁷⁾ A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you. ⁽⁸⁾ Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked.

⁽⁹⁾ Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, ⁽¹⁰⁾ No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; ⁽¹¹⁾ For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. ⁽¹²⁾ In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

⁽¹³⁾ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. ⁽¹⁴⁾ Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. ⁽¹⁵⁾ He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. ⁽¹⁶⁾ With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.'

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.

Psalm 92

⁽¹⁾ It is good to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; ⁽²⁾ To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night, ⁽³⁾ On an instrument of ten strings, On the lute, And on the harp, With harmonious sound. ⁽⁴⁾ For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands.

⁽⁵⁾ O LORD, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep. ⁽⁶⁾ A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool understand this. ⁽⁷⁾ When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever. ⁽⁸⁾ But You, LORD, are on high forevermore.

⁽⁹⁾ For behold, Your enemies, O LORD, For behold, Your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ⁽¹⁰⁾ But my horn You have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil. ⁽¹¹⁾ My eye also has seen my desire on my enemies; My ears hear my desire on the wicked Who rise up against me. ⁽¹²⁾ The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

⁽¹³⁾ Those who are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God. ⁽¹⁴⁾ They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, ⁽¹⁵⁾ To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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.

Judges Chapter 9

⁽¹⁾ Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, ⁽²⁾ Please speak in the hearing of all the men of Shechem: 'Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one reign over you?' Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.' ⁽³⁾ And his mother's brothers spoke all these words concerning him in the hearing of all the men of Shechem; and their heart was inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, 'He is our brother.' ⁽⁴⁾ So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men; and they followed him.

⁽⁵⁾ Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself. ⁽⁶⁾ And all the men of Shechem gathered together, all of Beth Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king beside the terebinth tree at the pillar that was in Shechem. ⁽⁷⁾ Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: 'Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to you! ⁽⁸⁾ The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them. And they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us!'

⁽⁹⁾ But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I cease giving my oil, With which they honor God and men, And go to sway over trees?' ⁽¹⁰⁾ Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and reign over us!' ⁽¹¹⁾ But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I cease my sweetness and my good fruit, And go to sway over trees?' ⁽¹²⁾ Then the trees said to the vine, 'You come and reign over us!'

⁽¹³⁾ But the vine said to them, 'Should I cease my new wine, Which cheers both God and men, And go to sway over trees?' ⁽¹⁴⁾ Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'You come and reign over us!' ⁽¹⁵⁾ And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in truth you anoint me as king over you, Then come and take shelter in my shade; But if not, let fire come out of the bramble And devour the cedars of Lebanon!' ⁽¹⁶⁾ Now therefore, if you have acted in truth and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him as he deserves --

⁽¹⁷⁾ for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; ⁽¹⁸⁾ but you have risen up against my father's house this day, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother -- ⁽¹⁹⁾ if then you have acted in truth and sincerity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. ⁽²⁰⁾ But if not, let fire come from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and Beth Millo; and let fire come from the men of Shechem and from Beth Millo and devour Abimelech!'

⁽²¹⁾ And Jotham ran away and fled; and he went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Acts Chapter 4

⁽¹³⁾ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. ⁽¹⁴⁾ And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. ⁽¹⁵⁾ But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, ⁽¹⁶⁾ saying, 'What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

⁽¹⁷⁾ But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.' ⁽¹⁸⁾ And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. ⁽¹⁹⁾ But Peter and John answered and said to them, 'Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. ⁽²⁰⁾ For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.'

⁽²¹⁾ So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done. ⁽²²⁾ For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed. ⁽²³⁾ And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. ⁽²⁴⁾ So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: 'Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

⁽²⁵⁾ who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: 'Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things? ⁽²⁶⁾ The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the LORD and against His Christ.' ⁽²⁷⁾ For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together ⁽²⁸⁾ to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

⁽²⁹⁾ Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, ⁽³⁰⁾ by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.' ⁽³¹⁾ And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

John Chapter 2

⁽¹⁾ On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ⁽²⁾ Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. ⁽³⁾ And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, 'They have no wine.' ⁽⁴⁾ Jesus said to her, 'Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.'

⁽⁵⁾ His mother said to the servants, 'Whatever He says to you, do it.' ⁽⁶⁾ Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. ⁽⁷⁾ Jesus said to them, 'Fill the waterpots with water.' And they filled them up to the brim. ⁽⁸⁾ And He said to them, 'Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.' And they took it.

⁽⁹⁾ When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. ⁽¹⁰⁾ And he said to him, 'Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!' ⁽¹¹⁾ This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. ⁽¹²⁾ After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.

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

Song of the Three Young Men      Benedictus es, Domine

Glory to you, Lord God of our fathers;
you are worthy of praise; glory to you.
Glory to you for the radiance of your holy Name;
we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.
Glory to you in the splendor of your temple;
on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.
Glory to you, seated between the Cherubim;
we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.
Glory to you, beholding the depths;
in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.
Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.
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 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 13 The Sunday closest to August 3
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; 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: Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Mission: Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. 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
May the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Romans 15:13



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