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Saturday after the Fourth Sunday of Easter

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    The Collect of the Day

    Fourth Sunday of Easter

    O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    138

    Confitebor tibiBCP p. 793

    1I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; *before the gods I will sing your praise.

    2I will bow down toward your holy temple and praise your Name, *because of your love and faithfulness;

    3For you have glorified your Name *and your word above all things.

    4When I called, you answered me; *you increased my strength within me.

    5All the kings of the earth will praise you, O Lord, *when they have heard the words of your mouth.

    6They will sing of the ways of the Lord, *that great is the glory of the Lord.

    7Though the Lord be high, he cares for the lowly; *he perceives the haughty from afar.

    8Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you keep me safe; *you stretch forth your hand against the fury of my enemies; your right hand shall save me.

    9The Lord will make good his purpose for me; *O Lord, your love endures for ever; do not abandon the works of your hands.

    139

    Domine, probastiBCP p. 794

    1Lord, you have searched me out and known me; *you know my sitting down and my rising up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

    2You trace my journeys and my resting-places *and are acquainted with all my ways.

    3Indeed, there is not a word on my lips, *but you, O Lord, know it altogether.

    4You press upon me behind and before *and lay your hand upon me.

    5Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; *it is so high that I cannot attain to it.

    6Where can I go then from your Spirit? *where can I flee from your presence?

    7If I climb up to heaven, you are there; *if I make the grave my bed, you are there also.

    8If I take the wings of the morning *and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

    9Even there your hand will lead me *and your right hand hold me fast.

    10If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, *and the light around me turn to night,”

    11Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; *darkness and light to you are both alike.

    12For you yourself created my inmost parts; *you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

    13I will thank you because I am marvelously made; *your works are wonderful, and I know it well.

    14My body was not hidden from you, *while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths of the earth.

    15Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb; all of them were written in your book; *they were fashioned day by day, when as yet there was none of them.

    16How deep I find your thoughts, O God! *how great is the sum of them!

    17If I were to count them, they would be more in number than the sand; *to count them all, my life span would need to be like yours.

    18Oh, that you would slay the wicked, O God! *You that thirst for blood, depart from me.

    19They speak despitefully against you; *your enemies take your Name in vain.

    20Do I not hate those, O Lord, who hate you? *and do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

    21I hate them with a perfect hatred; *they have become my own enemies.

    22Search me out, O God, and know my heart; *try me and know my restless thoughts.

    23Look well whether there be any wickedness in me *and lead me in the way that is everlasting.

    Daily Office Readings

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    1 Thess. 4:1-12

    1 Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we have already told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you. 9 Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; 10 and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more, 11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you, 12 so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one.

    Matt. 5:38-48

    38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; 40 and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; 41 and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile. 42 Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you. 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

    Exod. 40:18-38

    18 Moses set up the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars; 19 and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 20 He took the covenant and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above the ark; 21 and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the curtain for screening, and screened the ark of the covenant; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 22 He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain, 23 and set the bread in order on it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 24 He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, 25 and set up the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 26 He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the curtain, 27 and offered fragrant incense on it; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 28 He also put in place the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle. 29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering as the Lord had commanded Moses. 30 He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, 31 with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. 32 When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the Lord had commanded Moses. 33 He set up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and put up the screen at the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on each stage of their journey; 37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up. 38 For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.