--Today is the Feast of St. Dominic--
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

Saint and Major Saints' Days
We give thanks to the Father, who has made us worthy to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. Colossians 1:12

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 89

⁽¹⁹⁾ Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: 'I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted a young man from among the people. ⁽²⁰⁾ I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him. ⁽²¹⁾ My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him. ⁽²²⁾ No enemy will subject him to tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

⁽²³⁾ I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries. ⁽²⁴⁾ My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted. ⁽²⁵⁾ I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. ⁽²⁶⁾ He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.'

⁽²⁷⁾ I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth. ⁽²⁸⁾ I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail. ⁽²⁹⁾ I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure. ⁽³⁰⁾ If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,

⁽³¹⁾ if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands, ⁽³²⁾ I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging; ⁽³³⁾ but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness. ⁽³⁴⁾ I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

⁽³⁵⁾ Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness-- and I will not lie to David-- ⁽³⁶⁾ that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun; ⁽³⁷⁾ it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.' Selah ⁽³⁸⁾ But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.

⁽³⁹⁾ You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust. ⁽⁴⁰⁾ You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins. ⁽⁴¹⁾ All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors. ⁽⁴²⁾ You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁽⁴³⁾ You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle. ⁽⁴⁴⁾ You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground. ⁽⁴⁵⁾ You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame. Selah ⁽⁴⁶⁾ How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁽⁴⁷⁾ Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all men! ⁽⁴⁸⁾ What man can live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave? Selah ⁽⁴⁹⁾ O Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David? ⁽⁵⁰⁾ Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

⁽⁵¹⁾ the taunts with which your enemies have mocked, O LORD, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one. ⁽⁵²⁾ Praise be to the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

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 12

⁽¹⁾ The men of Ephraim called out their forces, crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, 'Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We're going to burn down your house over your head.' ⁽²⁾ Jephthah answered, 'I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn't save me out of their hands. ⁽³⁾ When I saw that you wouldn't help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?' ⁽⁴⁾ Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, 'You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.'

⁽⁵⁾ The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' ⁽⁶⁾ they said, 'All right, say 'Shibboleth.'' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time. ⁽⁷⁾ Jephthah led Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in a town in Gilead.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Acts Chapter 5

⁽¹²⁾ The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade. ⁽¹³⁾ No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. ⁽¹⁴⁾ Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. ⁽¹⁵⁾ As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

⁽¹⁶⁾ Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them were healed. ⁽¹⁷⁾ Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. ⁽¹⁸⁾ They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. ⁽¹⁹⁾ But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.

⁽²⁰⁾ Go, stand in the temple courts,' he said, 'and tell the people the full message of this new life.' ⁽²¹⁾ At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin-- the full assembly of the elders of Israel-- and sent to the jail for the apostles. ⁽²²⁾ But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported, ⁽²³⁾ We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.'

⁽²⁴⁾ On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were puzzled, wondering what would come of this. ⁽²⁵⁾ Then someone came and said, 'Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.' ⁽²⁶⁾ At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

John Chapter 3

⁽¹⁾ Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. ⁽²⁾ He came to Jesus at night and said, 'Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.' ⁽³⁾ In reply Jesus declared, 'I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.' ⁽⁴⁾ How can a man be born when he is old?' Nicodemus asked. 'Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!'

⁽⁵⁾ Jesus answered, 'I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. ⁽⁶⁾ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. ⁽⁷⁾ You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' ⁽⁸⁾ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.'

⁽⁹⁾ How can this be?' Nicodemus asked. ⁽¹⁰⁾ You are Israel's teacher,' said Jesus, 'and do you not understand these things? ⁽¹¹⁾ I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. ⁽¹²⁾ I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

⁽¹³⁾ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven-- the Son of Man. ⁽¹⁴⁾ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ⁽¹⁵⁾ that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. ⁽¹⁶⁾ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

⁽¹⁷⁾ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ⁽¹⁸⁾ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. ⁽¹⁹⁾ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ⁽²⁰⁾ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

⁽²¹⁾ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.'

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

The Song of Moses       Kyrie Pantokrator Exodus 15:1 to 6, 11 to 13, 17 to 18

I will sing to the Lord, for he is lofty and uplifted;
the horse and its rider has he hurled into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my refuge;
the Lord has become my Savior.
This is my God and I will praise him,
the God of my people and I will exalt him.
The Lord is a mighty warrior;
Yahweh is his Name.
The chariots of Pharoah and his army has he hurled into the sea;
the finest of those who bear armor have been drowned in the Red Sea.
The fathomless deep has overwhelmed them;
they sank into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in might;
your right hand, O Lord, has overthrown the enemy.
Who can be compared with you, O Lord, among the gods?
who is like you, glorious in holiness,
awesome in renown, and worker of wonders?
You stretched forth your right hand;
the earth swallowed them up.
With your constant love you led the people you redeemed;
with your might you brought them in safety to
your holy dwelling.
You will bring them in and plant them
on the mount of your possession,
The resting-place you have made for yourself, O Lord,
the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hand has established.
The Lord shall reign
forever and 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.


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 14 The Sunday closest to August 10
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; 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: O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness while it was day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Mission: O God and Father of all, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in peace; 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
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



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