The Fourth Sunday
after Trinity.
Psalm 119.25-32
Adhaesit pavimento
MY SOUL cleaveth to the dust : O quicken thou me, according to thy
word.
26. I have acknowledged my ways, and thou heardest me : O teach me thy
statutes.
27. Make me to understand the way of thy commandments : and so shall I
talk of thy wondrous works.
28. My soul melteth away for very heaviness : comfort thou me according
unto thy word.
29. Take from me the way of lying : and cause thou me to make much of
thy law.
30. I have chosen the way of truth : and thy judgements have I laid
before me.
31. I have stuck unto thy testimonies : O Lord, confound me not.
32. I will run the way of thy commandments : when thou hast set my
heart at liberty..
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
Personal Reflections on the Gospel Reading: http://mphilliber.blogspot.com/2013/09/brief-reflection-luke-637-38.html
C.S. Lewis: “Not long ago when I was using the
collect for the fourth Sunday after Trinity in my private prayers I found that
I had made a slip of the tongue. I had meant to pray that I might so pass
through things temporal that I finally lost not the things eternal; I found I
had prayed so to pass through things eternal that I finally lost not the things
temporal. Of course, I don't think that a slip of the tongue is a sin. I am not
sure that I am even a strict enough Freudian to believe that all such slips,
without exception, are deeply significant. But I think some of them are
significant, and I thought this was one of that sort. I thought that what I had
inadvertently said very nearly expressed something I had really wished. Very
nearly; not, of course, precisely. I had never been quite stupid enough to
think that the eternal could, strictly, be ‘passed through.’ What I had wanted
to pass through without prejudice to my things temporal was those hours or
moments in which I attended to the eternal, in which I exposed myself to it. I
mean this sort of thing. I say my prayers, I read my book of devotion, I
prepare for, or receive, the Sacrament. But while I do these things, there is,
so to speak, a voice inside me that urges caution. It tells me to be careful,
to keep my head, not to go to far, not to burn my boats. I come into the
presence of God with a great fear lest anything should happen to me within that
presence which will prove too intolerably inconvenient when I have come out
again into my “ordinary” life. I don’t want to be carried away into any
resolution which I shall afterwards regret” (“A Slip of the Tongue,” The
Weight of Glory, 184-6).
Saint Peter the
Apostle (29 June)
Psalm
144
Benedictus Dominus
BLESSED be the Lord my strength : who teacheth
my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.
2. My hope and my fortress, my castle and
deliverer, my defender in whom I trust : who subdueth my people that is under
me.
3. Lord, what is man, that thou hast such
respect unto him : or the son of man, that thou so regardest him?
4. Man is like a thing of nought : his time
passeth away like a shadow.
5. Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down :
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6. Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them :
shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.
7. Send down thine hand from above : deliver
me, and take me out of the great waters, from the hand of strange children.
8. Whose mouth talketh of vanity : and their
right hand is a right hand of wickedness.
9. I will sing a new song unto thee, O God :
and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed lute.
10. Thou hast given victory unto kings : and
hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword.
11. Save me, and deliver me from the hand of
strange children : whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their right hand is a
right hand of iniquity.
12. That our sons may grow up as the young
plants : and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple.
13. That our garners may be full and plenteous
with all manner of store : that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands
in our streets.
14. That our oxen may be strong to labour,
that there be no decay : no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our
streets.
15. Happy are the people that are in such a
case : yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God.
The Collect
O almighty God, who by thy Son Jesus Christ
didst give to thy Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts, and commandedst him
earnestly to feed thy flock: Make, we beseech thee, all Bishops and Pastors
diligently to preach thy holy Word, and the people obediently to follow the
same, that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
Epistle Reading: Acts 12.1-11
Gospel Reading: Matthew 16.13-19
