The Second Sunday
after Easter.
Psalm 49
Audite haec, omnes
( . . . )
6. There be some that put their trust in their
goods : and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
7. But no man may deliver his brother : nor make
agreement unto God for him;
8. For it cost more to redeem their souls : so that
he must let that alone for ever;
9. Yea, though he live long : and see not the
grave.
( . . . )
Interesting
note: the 1662 BCP Psalter is different here from the 1928 BCP. In the 1928 BCP
Psalter, v.9 looks this way: “9 That he shall live always, * and not see the
grave.”
The Collect.
ALMIGHTY God,
who has given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also
an ensample of godly life; Give us grace that we may always most thankfully
receive that his inestimable benefit, and also daily endeavour ourselves to
follow the blessed steps of his most holy life; through the same Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.
Old Testament
Reading: Isaiah 40.1-11
Psalter:
Psalm 21, 23 | 116, 117
Epistle
Reading: 1 Peter 2.19-25
Gospel
Reading: St. John 10.11-16
Barbee and Zahl: “Practical Pelagianism is any way
of living by which responsibility for the willing and doing of the right thing
is yours. The ball is in your court, really and actually, rather than that of
the unseen God. You may pray to God, even for specific assistance, but you act
as though it were up to you. ( . . . ) The Collect for the Second Sunday after
Easter parries Pelagianism. Yes, it invites us to follow Christ. Yes, it sets
out Christ as the way-shower and exemplar of the human race. But it beds the
exemplary character of Christ’s life in his “sacrifice for sin” and “his
inestimable benefit” (i.e., for us). In theological language, we could say that
the Collect invokes the Atonement as the foundation of our living out
concretely a Christ-like life” (55).
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