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The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 26

    The Sunday closest to November 2

    Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    24

    Domini est terraBCP p. 613

    1The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, *the world and all who dwell therein.

    2For it is he who founded it upon the seas *and made it firm upon the rivers of the deep.

    3“Who can ascend the hill of the Lord? *and who can stand in his holy place?”

    4“Those who have clean hands and a pure heart, *who have not pledged themselves to falsehood, nor sworn by what is a fraud.

    5They shall receive a blessing from the Lord *and a just reward from the God of their salvation.”

    6Such is the generation of those who seek him, *of those who seek your face, O God of Jacob.

    7Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high, O everlasting doors; *and the King of glory shall come in.

    8“Who is this King of glory?” *“The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.”

    9Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high, O everlasting doors; *and the King of glory shall come in.

    10“Who is he, this King of glory?” *“The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.”

    29

    Afferte DominoBCP p. 620

    1Ascribe to the Lord, you gods, *ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

    2Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his Name; *worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

    3The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders; *the Lord is upon the mighty waters.

    4The voice of the Lord is a powerful voice; *the voice of the Lord is a voice of splendor.

    5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedar trees; *the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon;

    6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, *and Mount Hermon like a young wild ox.

    7The voice of the Lord splits the flames of fire; the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; *the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

    8The voice of the Lord makes the oak trees writhe *and strips the forests bare.

    9And in the temple of the Lord *all are crying, “Glory!”

    10The Lord sits enthroned above the flood; *the Lord sits enthroned as King for evermore.

    11The Lord shall give strength to his people; *the Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Ecclus. 36:1-22

    1 Have mercy upon us, O God of all, 2    and put all the nations in fear of you. 3 Lift up your hand against foreign nations    and let them see your might. 4 As you have used us to show your holiness to them,    so use them to show your glory to us. 5 Then they will know, as we have known,    that there is no God but you, O Lord. 6 Give new signs, and work other wonders; 7    make your hand and right arm glorious. 8 Rouse your anger and pour out your wrath; 9    destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy. 10 Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time,    and let people recount your mighty deeds. 11 Let survivors be consumed in the fiery wrath,    and may those who harm your people meet destruction. 12 Crush the heads of hostile rulers    who say, ‘There is no one but ourselves.’ 13 Gather all the tribes of Jacob, 16    and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning. 17 Have mercy, O Lord, on the people called by your name,    on Israel, whom you have named your firstborn, 18 Have pity on the city of your sanctuary,    Jerusalem, the place of your dwelling. 19 Fill Zion with your majesty,    and your temple with your glory. 20 Bear witness to those whom you created in the beginning,    and fulfil the prophecies spoken in your name. 21 Reward those who wait for you    and let your prophets be found trustworthy. 22 Hear, O Lord, the prayer of your servants, according to your goodwill towards your people, and all who are on the earth will know that you are the Lord, the God of the ages.

    1 Cor. 12:27-13:13

    27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. 1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

    Matt. 18:21-35

    21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. 23 “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him; 25 and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and payment to be made. 26 So the slave fell on his knees before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ 27 And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt. 28 But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat, he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’ 29 Then his fellow slave fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ 30 But he refused; then he went and threw him into prison until he would pay the debt. 31 When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. 32 Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’ 34 And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. 35 So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

    Ecclus. 36:1-17

    1 Have mercy upon us, O God of all, 2    and put all the nations in fear of you. 3 Lift up your hand against foreign nations    and let them see your might. 4 As you have used us to show your holiness to them,    so use them to show your glory to us. 5 Then they will know, as we have known,    that there is no God but you, O Lord. 6 Give new signs, and work other wonders; 7    make your hand and right arm glorious. 8 Rouse your anger and pour out your wrath; 9    destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy. 10 Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time,    and let people recount your mighty deeds. 11 Let survivors be consumed in the fiery wrath,    and may those who harm your people meet destruction. 12 Crush the heads of hostile rulers    who say, ‘There is no one but ourselves.’ 13 Gather all the tribes of Jacob, 16    and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning. 17 Have mercy, O Lord, on the people called by your name, on Israel, whom you have named your firstborn,