Daily Readings: January 26, 2023

Thursday after the Third Sunday after the Epiphany

Timothy and Titus, Companions of Saint Paul

Morning	Evening
Psalm 50	Psalm 59 Psalm 60
Isa. 49:13-23 Gal. 3:1-14 Mark 6:30-46

The Collect of the Day

Third Sunday after the Epiphany

Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Titus and Timothy

Almighty God, who called Timothy and Titus to be evangelists and teachers, and made them strong to endure hardship: Strengthen us to stand fast in adversity, and to live godly and righteous lives in this present time, that with sure confidence we may look for our blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Psalms

50

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¹The Lord, the God of gods, has spoken; *he has called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

²Out of Zion, perfect in its beauty, *God reveals himself in glory.

³Our God will come and will not keep silence; *before him there is a consuming flame, and round about him a raging storm.

⁴He calls the heavens and the earth from above *to witness the judgment of his people.

⁵“Gather before me my loyal followers, *those who have made a covenant with me and sealed it with sacrifice.”

⁶Let the heavens declare the rightness of his cause; *for God himself is judge.

⁷Hear, O my people, and I will speak: “O Israel, I will bear witness against you; *for I am God, your God.

⁸I do not accuse you because of your sacrifices; *your offerings are always before me.

⁹I will take no bull-calf from your stalls, *nor he-goats out of your pens;

¹⁰For all the beasts of the forest are mine, *the herds in their thousands upon the hills.

¹¹I know every bird in the sky, *and the creatures of the fields are in my sight.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, *for the whole world is mine and all that is in it.

¹³Do you think I eat the flesh of bulls, *or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving *and make good your vows to the Most High.

¹⁵Call upon me in the day of trouble; *I will deliver you, and you shall honor me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says: *“Why do you recite my statutes, and take my covenant upon your lips;

¹⁷Since you refuse discipline, *and toss my words behind your back?

¹⁸When you see a thief, you make him your friend, *and you cast in your lot with adulterers.

¹⁹You have loosed your lips for evil, *and harnessed your tongue to a lie.

²⁰You are always speaking evil of your brother *and slandering your own mother’s son.

²¹These things you have done, and I kept still, *and you thought that I am like you.”

²²“I have made my accusation; *I have put my case in order before your eyes.

²³Consider this well, you who forget God, *lest I rend you and there be none to deliver you.

²⁴Whoever offers me the sacrifice of thanksgiving honors me; *but to those who keep in my way will I show the salvation of God.”

Daily Office Readings

Isa. 49:13-23

A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah.

¹³Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. ¹⁴But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me.” ¹⁵Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. ¹⁶See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. ¹⁷Your builders outdo your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go away from you. ¹⁸Lift up your eyes all around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you shall put all of them on like an ornament, and like a bride you shall bind them on. ¹⁹Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land— surely now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. ²⁰The children born in the time of your bereavement will yet say in your hearing: “The place is too crowded for me; make room for me to settle.” ²¹Then you will say in your heart, “Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away— so who has reared these? I was left all alone— where then have these come from?” ²²Thus says the Lord God: I will soon lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. ²³Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.

³⁰The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. ³¹He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. ³²And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. ³³Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. ³⁴As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. ³⁵When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is now very late; ³⁶send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.’ ³⁷But he answered them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ They said to him, ‘Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?’ ³⁸And he said to them, ‘How many loaves have you? Go and see.’ When they had found out, they said, ‘Five, and two fish.’ ³⁹Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰So they sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. ⁴¹Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and he divided the two fish among them all. ⁴²And all ate and were filled; ⁴³and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. ⁴⁴Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men. ⁴⁵Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. ⁴⁶After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray.