Daily Readings
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Morning Prayer — First Lesson
He that shows mercy will lend to his neighbor; And he that strengthens him with his hand keeps the commandments. Lend to your neighbor in time of his need; And pay you your neighbor again in due season. Confirm your word, and keep faith with him; And at all seasons you shall find what you need. Many have reckoned a loan as a windfall, And have given trouble to those that helped them. Till he has received, he will kiss a man’s hands; And for his neighbor’s money he will speak submissly: And when payment is due, he will prolong the time, And return words of heaviness, and complain of the times. If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half; And he will count it as a windfall: If not, he has deprived him of his money, And he has gotten him for an enemy without cause: He will pay him with cursings and railings; And for honor he will pay him disgrace. Many on account of men’s ill-dealing have turned away; They have feared to be defrauded for nothing. Howbeit with a man in poor estate be longsuffering; And let him not wait for your alms. Help a poor man for the commandment’s sake; And according to his need send him not empty away. Lose your money for a brother and a friend; And let it not rust under the stone to be lost. Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High; And it shall profit you more than gold. Shut up alms in your store-chambers; And it shall deliver you out of all affliction: It shall fight for you against your enemy Better than a mighty shield and a ponderous spear. A good man will be surety for his neighbor; And he that has lost shame will fail him. Forget not the good offices of your surety; For he has given his life for you. A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety; And he that is of an unthankful mind will fail him that delivered him. Suretiship has undone many that were prospering, And shaken them as a wave of the sea: Mighty men has it driven from their homes; And they wandered among strange nations. A sinner that falls into suretiship, And undertakes contracts for work, shall fall into lawsuits. Help your neighbor according to your power, And take heed to yourself that you fall not to the same. The chief thing for life is water, and bread, And a garment, and a house to cover shame. Better is the life of a poor man under a shelter of logs, Than sumptuous fare in another man’s house. With little or with much, be well satisfied. It is a miserable life to go from house to house: And where you are a sojourner, you shall not dare to open your mouth. You shall entertain, and give to drink, and have no thanks: And besides this you shall hear bitter words. Come hither, you sojourner, furnish a table, And if you have anything in your hand, feed me with it. Go forth, you sojourner, from the face of honor; My brother is come to be my guest; I have need of my house. These things are grievous to a man of understanding; The upbraiding of house-room, and the reproaching of the money-lender.
Morning Prayer — Second Lesson
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?” They remembered his words, returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles. These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened. Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?” One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?” He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.” He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?” Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further. They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them. When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them. Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight. They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?” They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. He took them, and ate in front of them. He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.” He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven. They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
Evening Prayer — First Lesson
He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him, That he may have joy of him in the end. He that chastises his son shall have profit of him, And shall glory of him among his acquaintance. He that teaches his son shall provoke his enemy to jealousy; And before friends he shall rejoice of him. His father dieth, and is as though he had not died; For he has left one behind him like himself. In his life, he saw and rejoiced in him; And when he died, he sorrowed not: He left behind him an avenger against his enemies, And one to requite kindness to his friends. He that makes too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; And his heart will be troubled at every cry. An unbroken horse becomes stubborn; And a son left at large becomes headstrong. Cocker your child, and he shall make you afraid: Play with him, and he will grieve you. Laugh not with him, lest you have sorrow with him; And you shall gnash your teeth in the end. Give him no liberty in his youth, And wink not at his follies. Bow down his neck in his youth, And beat him on the sides while he is a child, Lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient to you; And there shall be sorrow to your soul. Chastise your son, and take pains with him, Lest his shameless behavior be an offence to you. Better is a poor man, being sound and strong of constitution, Than a rich man that is plagued in his body. Health and a good constitution are better than all gold; And a strong body than wealth without measure. There is no riches better than health of body; And there is no gladness above the joy of the heart. Death is better than a bitter life, And eternal rest than a continual sickness. Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed Are as messes of meat laid upon a grave. What does an offering profit an idol? For neither shall it eat nor smell: So is he that is afflicted of the Lord, Seeing with his eyes and groaning, As an eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning. Give not over your soul to sorrow; And afflict not yourself in your own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of a man; And the joyfulness of a man is length of days. Love your own soul, and comfort your heart: And remove sorrow far from you; For sorrow has destroyed many, And there is no profit therein. Envy and wrath shorten a man’s days; And care brings old age before the time. A cheerful and good heart Will have a care of his meat and diet.
Evening Prayer — Second Lesson
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Readings follow the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (public domain). Scripture text is in the public domain. (World English Bible)
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