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September 19, 2024

Thursday after the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
  • THEODORE OF TARSUS, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690

Psalms

Deus, in adjutorium

1

Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; *

O Lord, make haste to help me.

2

Let those who seek my life be ashamed
and altogether dismayed; *

let those who take pleasure in my misfortune
draw back and be disgraced.

3

Let those who say to me “Aha!” and gloat over me turn back, *

because they are ashamed.

4

Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; *

let those who love your salvation say for ever,
“Great is the Lord!”

5

But as for me, I am poor and needy; *

come to me speedily, O God.

6

You are my helper and my deliverer; *

O Lord, do not tarry.

In te, Domine, speravi

1

In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge; *

let me never be ashamed.

2

In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free; *

incline your ear to me and save me.

3

Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe; *

you are my crag and my stronghold.

4

Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, *

from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.

5

For you are my hope, O Lord God, *

my confidence since I was young.

6

I have been sustained by you ever since I was born;
from my mother’s womb you have been my strength; *

my praise shall be always of you.

7

I have become a portent to many; *

but you are my refuge and my strength.

8

Let my mouth be full of your praise *

and your glory all the day long.

9

Do not cast me off in my old age; *

forsake me not when my strength fails.

10

For my enemies are talking against me, *

and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together.

11

They say, “God has forsaken him;
go after him and seize him; *

because there is none who will save.”

12

O God, be not far from me; *

come quickly to help me, O my God.

13

Let those who set themselves against me be put to shame and be disgraced; *

let those who seek to do me evil be covered with scorn and reproach.

14

But I shall always wait in patience, *

and shall praise you more and more.

15

My mouth shall recount your mighty acts
and saving deeds all day long; *

though I cannot know the number of them.

16

I will begin with the mighty works of the Lord God; *

I will recall your righteousness, yours alone.

17

O God, you have taught me since I was young, *

and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.

18

And now that I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, *

till I make known your strength to this generation
and your power to all who are to come.

19

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; *

you have done great things;
who is like you, O God?

20

You have showed me great troubles and adversities, *

but you will restore my life
and bring me up again from the deep places of the earth.

21

You strengthen me more and more; *

you enfold and comfort me,

22

Therefore I will praise you upon the lyre for your faithfulness, O my God; *

I will sing to you with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

23

My lips will sing with joy when I play to you, *

and so will my soul, which you have redeemed.

24

My tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long, *

for they are ashamed and disgraced who sought to do me harm.

Lessons

Collects

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Almighty God, who gave your servant Theodore of Tarsus gifts of grace and wisdom to establish unity where there had been division and order where there had been chaos: Create in your church, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, such godly union and concord that it may proclaim, both by word and example, the Gospel of the Prince of Peace; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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