Independence Day
(USA)
July 4
The Collect
O ETERNAL God, through whose mighty
power our fathers won their liberties of old; Grant, we beseech thee, that we
and all the people of this land may have grace to maintain these liberties in
righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For the Epistle. Deuteronomy x. 17: THE LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of
lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor
taketh reward: he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and
loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the
stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy
God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and
terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Psalm
119.49-64
vii. Memor
esto verbi tui.
O THINK upon thy servant, as concerning
thy word, * wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust.
50 The same is my comfort in my
trouble; * for thy word hath quickened me.
51 The proud have had me exceedingly in
derision; * yet have I not shrinked from thy law.
52 For I remembered thine everlasting
judgments, O Lord, * and received comfort.
53 I am horribly afraid, * for the
ungodly that forsake thy law.
54 Thy statutes have been my songs, *
in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have thought upon thy Name, O
Lord, in the night season, * and have kept thy law.
56 This I had, * because I kept thy
commandments.
viii. Portio
mea, Domine.
THOU art my portion, O Lord; * I have
promised to keep thy law.
58 I made my humble petition in thy
presence with my whole heart; * O be merciful unto me, according to thy word.
59 I called mine own ways to
remembrance, * and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and prolonged not the
time, * to keep thy commandments.
61 The snares of the ungodly have
compassed me about; * but I have not forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give
thanks unto thee, * because of thy righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all them that
fear thee, * and keep thy commandments.
64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy
mercy: * O teach me thy statutes.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son
* and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be * world without end. Amen.
The Collect.
O GOD, the protector of all that trust in thee, without
whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; Increase and multiply upon us thy
mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things
temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal: Grant this, O heavenly
Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake our Lord. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Lamentations 3.22-33
Psalter: Psalm 19, 20 | 24, 25
Epistle Reading: Romans 8.18-23
Gospel Reading: St. Luke 6.36-42
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