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Epiphany
Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:3

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 Lord has shown forth his glory: 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 Chapter 110

⁽¹⁾ The LORD says to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.' ⁽²⁾ The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies. ⁽³⁾ Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth. ⁽⁴⁾ The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: 'You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.'

⁽⁵⁾ The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath. ⁽⁶⁾ He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth. ⁽⁷⁾ He will drink from a brook beside the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

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 Chapter 116

⁽¹⁾ I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. ⁽²⁾ Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. ⁽³⁾ The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came upon me; I was overcome by trouble and sorrow. ⁽⁴⁾ Then I called on the name of the LORD: 'O LORD, save me!'

⁽⁵⁾ The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. ⁽⁶⁾ The LORD protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me. ⁽⁷⁾ Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. ⁽⁸⁾ For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,

⁽⁹⁾ that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living. ⁽¹⁰⁾ I believed; therefore I said, 'I am greatly afflicted.' ⁽¹¹⁾ And in my dismay I said, 'All men are liars.' ⁽¹²⁾ How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?

⁽¹³⁾ I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD. ⁽¹⁴⁾ I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people. ⁽¹⁵⁾ Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. ⁽¹⁶⁾ O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant; you have freed me from my chains.

⁽¹⁷⁾ I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the LORD. ⁽¹⁸⁾ I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people, ⁽¹⁹⁾ in the courts of the house of the LORD-- in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.

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 Chapter 117

⁽¹⁾ Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. ⁽²⁾ For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.

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.

Genesis Chapter 6

⁽⁹⁾ This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. ⁽¹⁰⁾ Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. ⁽¹¹⁾ Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. ⁽¹²⁾ God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

⁽¹³⁾ So God said to Noah, 'I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. ⁽¹⁴⁾ So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. ⁽¹⁵⁾ This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. ⁽¹⁶⁾ Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

⁽¹⁷⁾ I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. ⁽¹⁸⁾ But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-- you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. ⁽¹⁹⁾ You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. ⁽²⁰⁾ Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

⁽²¹⁾ You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.' ⁽²²⁾ Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Hebrews Chapter 4

⁽¹⁾ Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. ⁽²⁾ For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. ⁽³⁾ Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, 'So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'' And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. ⁽⁴⁾ For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: 'And on the seventh day God rested from all his work.'

⁽⁵⁾ And again in the passage above he says, 'They shall never enter my rest.' ⁽⁶⁾ It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. ⁽⁷⁾ Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.' ⁽⁸⁾ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

⁽⁹⁾ There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; ⁽¹⁰⁾ for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. ⁽¹¹⁾ Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience. ⁽¹²⁾ For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

⁽¹³⁾ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

John Chapter 2

⁽¹³⁾ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ⁽¹⁴⁾ In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. ⁽¹⁵⁾ So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ⁽¹⁶⁾ To those who sold doves he said, 'Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!'

⁽¹⁷⁾ His disciples remembered that it is written: 'Zeal for your house will consume me.' ⁽¹⁸⁾ Then the Jews demanded of him, 'What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?' ⁽¹⁹⁾ Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.' ⁽²⁰⁾ The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?'

⁽²¹⁾ But the temple he had spoken of was his body. ⁽²²⁾ After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

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 First Song of Isaiah       Kyrie Pantokrator Isaiah 12:2 to 6
 
Surely, it is God who saves me;
  I will trust in him and not be afraid.
For the Lord is my stronghold
and my sure defense,
  and he will be my Savior.
Therefore you shall draw water with rejoicing
  from the springs of salvation.
And on that day you shall say,
  Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name;
Make his deeds known among the peoples;
  see that they remember that his Name is exalted.
Sing the praises of the Lord,
for he has done great things,
  and this is known in all the world.
Cry aloud, inhabitants of Zion, ring out your joy,
  for the great one in the midst of you is the Holy One of 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 Song of Mary       Magnificat Luke 1:46-55  
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
The promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children 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 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:  First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord
Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

Collect of the Day:  A Collect for Saturdays O God, the source of eternal light: Shed forth your unending day upon us who watch for you, that our lips may praise you, our lives may bless you, and our worship on the morrow give you glory; 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   Chrysostom

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