Daily Readings: December 1, 2022

Thursday after the First Sunday of Advent

Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637

Morning	Evening
Psalm 18:1-20	Psalm 18:21-50
Isa. 2:12-22 1 Thess. 3:1-13 Luke 20:27-40

The Collect of the Day

First Sunday of Advent

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Nicholas Ferrar

Lord God, make us worthy of your perfect love; that, with your deacon Nicholas Ferrar and his household, we may rule ourselves according to your Word, and serve you with our whole heart; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

18 Part I

Diligam te, Domine.BCP p. 602

¹I love you, O Lord my strength, *O Lord my stronghold, my crag, and my haven.

²My God, my rock in whom I put my trust, *my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge; you are worthy of praise.

³I will call upon the Lord, *and so shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁴The breakers of death rolled over me, *and the torrents of oblivion made me afraid.

⁵The cords of hell entangled me, *and the snares of death were set for me.

⁶I called upon the Lord in my distress *and cried out to my God for help.

⁷He heard my voice from his heavenly dwelling; *my cry of anguish came to his ears.

⁸The earth reeled and rocked; *the roots of the mountains shook; they reeled because of his anger.

⁹Smoke rose from his nostrils and a consuming fire out of his mouth; *hot burning coals blazed forth from him.

¹⁰He parted the heavens and came down *with a storm cloud under his feet.

¹¹He mounted on cherubim and flew; *he swooped on the wings of the wind.

¹²He wrapped darkness about him; *he made dark waters and thick clouds his pavilion.

¹³From the brightness of his presence, through the clouds, *burst hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴The Lord thundered out of heaven; *the Most High uttered his voice.

¹⁵He loosed his arrows and scattered them; *he hurled thunderbolts and routed them.

¹⁶The beds of the seas were uncovered, and the foundations of the world laid bare, *at your battle cry, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

¹⁷He reached down from on high and grasped me; *he drew me out of great waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemies and from those who hated me; *for they were too mighty for me.

¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my disaster; *but the Lord was my support.

²⁰He brought me out into an open place; *he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Daily Office Readings

Isa. 2:12-22

A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah.

¹²For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high; ¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; ¹⁴against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills; ¹⁵against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; ¹⁶against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft. ¹⁷The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day. ¹⁸The idols shall utterly pass away. ¹⁹Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. ²⁰On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, ²¹to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts in the crags, from the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. ²²Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?

Luke 20:27-40

A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.

²⁷Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him ²⁸and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. ²⁹Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; ³⁰then the second ³¹and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. ³²Finally the woman also died. ³³In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” ³⁴Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; ³⁵but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. ³⁷And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ³⁸Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” ³⁹Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” ⁴⁰For they no longer dared to ask him another question.