Daily Lectionary:

Morning: Psalm 149:1-9
Ezekiel 47:1-12
1 John 3:11-18
Matthew 10:34-42

Eve of Trinity Sunday:

Ecclesiasticus 42:15-25 or Isaiah 6:1-8
Ephesians 3:14-21
Evening: Psalm 90:1-17

Morning: Psalm 149:1-9

¹Praise the Lord!

Sing to the Lord a new song,

his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

²Let Israel be glad in its Maker;

let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

³Let them praise his name with dancing,

making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.

⁴For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;

he adorns the humble with victory.

⁵Let the faithful exult in glory;

let them sing for joy on their couches.

⁶Let the high praises of God be in their throats

and two-edged swords in their hands,

⁷to execute vengeance on the nations

and punishment on the peoples,

⁸to bind their kings with fetters

and their nobles with chains of iron,

⁹to execute on them the judgment decreed.

This is glory for all his faithful ones.

Praise the Lord!

Ezekiel 47:1-12

¹Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold of the temple towards the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. ²Then he brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me round on the outside to the outer gate that faces towards the east;* and the water was coming out on the south side.

³Going on eastwards with a cord in his hand, the man measured one thousand cubits, and then led me through the water; and it was ankle-deep. ⁴Again he measured one thousand, and led me through the water; and it was knee-deep. Again he measured one thousand, and led me through the water; and it was up to the waist. ⁵Again he
measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed. ⁶He said to me, ‘Mortal, have you seen this?’ Then he led me back along the bank of the river. ⁷As I came back, I saw on the bank of the river a great many trees on one side and on the other. ⁸He said to me, ‘This water flows towards the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the
sea, the sea of stagnant waters, the water will become fresh.

⁹Wherever the river goes,* every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish, once these waters reach there. It will become fresh; and everything will live where the river
goes.¹⁰People will stand fishing beside the sea* from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of a great many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

¹¹But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. ¹²On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.’

1 John 3:11-18

¹¹For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹²We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. ¹³Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. ¹⁵All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them. ¹⁶We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. ¹⁷How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

¹⁸Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

Matthew 10:34-42

³⁴"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. ³⁵For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; ³⁶and one's foes will be members of one's own household. ³⁷Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; ³⁸and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

⁴⁰"Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. ⁴¹Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; ⁴²and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward."

Eve of Trinity Sunday
Ecclesiasticus 42:15-25

¹⁵I will now call to mind the works of the Lord, and will declare what I have seen. By the word of the Lord his works are made; and all his creatures do his will. ¹⁶The sun looks down on everything with its light, and the work of the Lord is full of his glory. ¹⁷The Lord has not empowered even his holy ones to recount all his marvelous works, which the Lord the Almighty has established so that the universe may stand firm in his glory. ¹⁸He searches out the abyss and the human heart; he understands their innermost secrets. For the Most High knows all that may be known; he sees from of old the things that are to come. ¹⁹He discloses what has been and what is to be, and he reveals the traces of hidden things. ²⁰No thought escapes him, and nothing is hidden from him. ²¹He has set in order the splendors of his wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counsellor. ²²How desirable are all his works, and how sparkling they are to see! ²³All these things live and remain for ever; each creature is preserved to meet a particular need. ²⁴All things come in pairs, one opposite to the other, and he has made nothing incomplete. ²⁵Each supplements the virtues of the other. Who could ever tire of seeing his glory?

or Isaiah 6:1-8

¹In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. ²Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. ³And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory." ⁴The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. ⁵And I said: "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

⁶Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. ⁷The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out." ⁸Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me!"

Ephesians 3:14-21

¹⁴For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. ¹⁶I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, ¹⁷and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. ¹⁸I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, ²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Evening: Psalm 90:1-17

¹Lord, you have been our dwelling place

in all generations.

²Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever you had formed the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³You turn us back to dust,

and say, "Turn back, you mortals."

⁴For a thousand years in your sight

are like yesterday when it is past,

or like a watch in the night.

⁵You sweep them away; they are like a dream,

like grass that is renewed in the morning;

⁶in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;

in the evening it fades and withers.

⁷For we are consumed by your anger;

by your wrath we are overwhelmed.

⁸You have set our iniquities before you,

our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

⁹For all our days pass away under your wrath;

our years come to an end like a sigh.

¹⁰The days of our life are seventy years,

or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;

even then their span is only toil and trouble;

they are soon gone, and we fly away.

¹¹Who considers the power of your anger?

Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

¹²So teach us to count our days

that we may gain a wise heart.

¹³Turn, O LORD! How long?

Have compassion on your servants!

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,

so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us,

and as many years as we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let your work be manifest to your servants,

and your glorious power to their children.

¹⁷Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,

and prosper for us the work of our hands --

O prosper the work of our hands!