MORNING PRAYER Tuesday, 7 October 2014 Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary Preparation O Lord, open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise. One or more of the following is said or sung: a prayer of thanksgiving (page 109), a suitable hymn, or A Song of God’s Righteousness Bless the Lord, O my soul, • and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, • and forget not all his benefits; Who forgives all your sins • and heals all your infirmities; Who redeems your life from the Pit • and crowns you with faithful love and compassion; Who satisfies you with good things, • so that your youth is renewed like an eagle’s. The Lord executes righteousness • and judgement for all who are oppressed. He made his ways known to Moses • and his works to the children of Israel. The Lord has established his throne in heaven, • and his kingdom has dominion over all. Bless the Lord, you angels of his, • you mighty ones who do his bidding and hearken to the voice of his word. Bless the Lord, all you his hosts, • you ministers of his who do his will. Bless the Lord, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion; • bless the Lord, O my soul. Psalm 103.1-7, 19-22 Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. This opening prayer may be said The night has passed, and the day lies open before us; let us pray with one heart and mind. Silence is kept. As we rejoice in the gift of this new day, so may the light of your presence, O God, set our hearts on fire with love for you; now and for ever. Amen. The Word of God Psalmody The appointed psalmody is said. Psalm 48 We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised, • in the city of our God. His holy mountain is fair and lifted high, • the joy of all the earth. On Mount Zion, the divine dwelling place, • stands the city of the great king. In her palaces God has shown himself • to be a sure refuge. R For behold, the kings of the earth assembled • and swept forward together. They saw, and were dumbfounded; • dismayed, they fled in terror. Trembling seized them there; they writhed like a woman in labour, • as when the east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish. As we had heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, the city of our God: • God has established her for ever. R We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God, • in the midst of your temple. As with your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; • your right hand is full of justice. Let Mount Zion rejoice and the daughters of Judah be glad, • because of your judgements, O Lord. Walk about Zion and go round about her; count all her towers; • consider well her bulwarks; pass through her citadels, That you may tell those who come after that such is our God for ever and ever. • It is he that shall be our guide for evermore. We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God. Father of lights, raise us with Christ to your eternal city, that, with kings and nations, we may wait in the midst of your temple and see your glory for ever and ever. Psalm 52 I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever. Why do you glory in evil, you tyrant, • while the goodness of God endures continually? You plot destruction, you deceiver; • your tongue is like a sharpened razor. You love evil rather than good, • falsehood rather than the word of truth. You love all words that hurt, • O you deceitful tongue. Therefore God shall utterly bring you down; • he shall take you and pluck you out of your tent and root you out of the land of the living. The righteous shall see this and tremble; • they shall laugh you to scorn, and say: ‘This is the one who did not take God for a refuge, • but trusted in great riches and relied upon wickedness.’ But I am like a spreading olive tree in the house of God; • I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever. I will always give thanks to you for what you have done; • I will hope in your name, for your faithful ones delight in it. I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever. Faithful and steadfast God, nourish your people in this wicked world, and, through prayer and the Scriptures, give us our daily bread; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Each psalm or group of psalms may end with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. If there are two Scripture readings, the first may be read here, or both may be read after the canticle. 1 Kings 13.11-end Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel. One of his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words also that he had spoken to the king, they told to their father. Their father said to them, ‘Which way did he go?’ And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone. Then he said to his sons, ‘Saddle a donkey for me.’ So they saddled a donkey for him, and he mounted it. He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak tree. He said to him, ‘Are you the man of God who came from Judah?’ He answered, ‘I am.’ Then he said to him, ‘Come home with me and eat some food.’ But he said, ‘I cannot return with you, or go in with you; nor will I eat food or drink water with you in this place; for it was said to me by the word of the Lord: You shall not eat food or drink water there, or return by the way that you came.’ Then the other said to him, ‘I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord: Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.’ But he was deceiving him. Then the man of God went back with him, and ate food and drank water in his house. As they were sitting at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back; and he proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, ‘Thus says the Lord: Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment that the Lord your God commanded you, but have come back and have eaten food and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no food, and drink no water”, your body shall not come to your ancestral tomb.’ After the man of God had eaten food and had drunk, they saddled for him a donkey belonging to the prophet who had brought him back. Then as he went away, a lion met him on the road and killed him. His body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body. People passed by and saw the body thrown in the road, with the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the town where the old prophet lived. When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, ‘It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.’ Then he said to his sons, ‘Saddle a donkey for me.’ So they saddled one, and he went and found the body thrown in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or attacked the donkey. The prophet took up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to the city, to mourn and to bury him. He laid the body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, ‘Alas, my brother!’ After he had buried him, he said to his sons, ‘When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. For the saying that he proclaimed by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.’ Even after this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who wanted to be priests he consecrated for the high places. This matter became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth. Canticle A Song of Peace, or another suitable canticle, for example, number 26 (page 577), may be said Refrain: Spirit of God, teach us your ways, that we may walk in the paths of peace. Come, let us go up to the mountain of God, • to the house of the God of Jacob; That God may teach us his ways, • and that we may walk in his paths. For the law shall go out from Zion, • and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. God shall judge between the nations, • and shall mediate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, • and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, • neither shall they learn war any more. O people of Jacob, come: • let us walk in the light of the Lord. Isaiah 2.3-5 Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. Spirit of God, teach us your ways, that we may walk in the paths of peace. Scripture Reading One or more readings appointed for the day are read. The reading(s) may be followed by a time of silence. Acts 19.21-end Now after these things had been accomplished, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go through Macedonia and Achaia, and then to go on to Jerusalem. He said, ‘After I have gone there, I must also see Rome.’ So he sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he himself stayed for some time longer in Asia. About that time no little disturbance broke out concerning the Way. A man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the artisans. These he gathered together, with the workers of the same trade, and said, ‘Men, you know that we get our wealth from this business. You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods. And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be scorned, and she will be deprived of her majesty that brought all Asia and the world to worship her.’ When they heard this, they were enraged and shouted, ‘Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!’ The city was filled with the confusion; and people rushed together to the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s travelling-companions. Paul wished to go into the crowd, but the disciples would not let him; even some officials of the province of Asia, who were friendly to him, sent him a message urging him not to venture into the theatre. Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing, some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. Some of the crowd gave instructions to Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed forward. And Alexander motioned for silence and tried to make a defence before the people. But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours all of them shouted in unison, ‘Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!’ But when the town clerk had quietened the crowd, he said, ‘Citizens of Ephesus, who is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple-keeper of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven? Since these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash. You have brought these men here who are neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess. If therefore Demetrius and the artisans with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges there against one another. If there is anything further you want to know, it must be settled in the regular assembly. For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.’ When he had said this, he dismissed the assembly. A suitable song or chant, or a responsory in this or another form, may follow Open my eyes, O Lord that I may see the wonders of your law. Open my eyes, O Lord that I may see the wonders of your law. Lead me in the path of your commandments that I may see the wonders of your law. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Open my eyes, O Lord that I may see the wonders of your law. from Psalm 119 Gospel Canticle The Benedictus (The Song of Zechariah) is normally said, or The Song of Christs Glory (page 619) may be said Refrain: In your tender compassion, O God, the dawn from on high shall break upon us. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, • who has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour, • born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy prophets God promised of old • to save us from our enemies, from the hands of all that hate us, To show mercy to our ancestors, • and to remember his holy covenant. This was the oath God swore to our father Abraham: • to set us free from the hands of our enemies, Free to worship him without fear, • holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, • for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, To give his people knowledge of salvation • by the forgiveness of all their sins. In the tender compassion of our God • the dawn from on high shall break upon us, To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, • and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1.68-79 Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. Refrain: In your tender compassion, O God, the dawn from on high shall break upon us. Prayers Intercessions are offered ¶ for the day and its tasks ¶ for the world and its needs ¶ for the Church and her life The cycle on pages 364–365 and the prayer on page 377 may be used. These responses may be used Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer (or) Lord, hear us. Lord, graciously hear us. Silence may be kept. The Collect of the day is said O Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Lord’s Prayer is said As our Saviour taught us, so we pray Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen. (or) Let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. The Conclusion The Lord bless us, and preserve us from all evil, and keep us in eternal life. Amen. Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God.
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