Daily Lectionary:

Morning: Psalm 150:1-6
Proverbs 9:1-12
Acts 8:14-25
Luke 10:25-29, 38-42
Evening: Psalm 113:1-9

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary:

Isaiah 49:8-16a
Psalm 131:1-3
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Matthew 6:24-34

Morning: Psalm 150:1-6

¹Praise the Lord!

Praise God in his sanctuary;

praise him in his mighty firmament!

²Praise him for his mighty deeds;

praise him according to his surpassing greatness!

³Praise him with trumpet sound;

praise him with lute and harp!

⁴Praise him with tambourine and dance;

praise him with strings and pipe!

⁵Praise him with clanging cymbals;

praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

⁶Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord!

Proverbs 9:1-12

¹Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. ²She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. ³She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town, ⁴‘You that are simple, turn in here!’ To those without sense she says, ⁵‘Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. ⁶Lay aside immaturity,* and live, and walk in the way of insight.’

⁷Whoever corrects a scoffer wins abuse; whoever rebukes the wicked gets hurt. ⁸A scoffer who is rebuked will only hate you; the wise, when rebuked, will love you. ⁹Give instruction* to the wise, and they will become wiser still;
teach the righteous and they will gain in learning. ¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. ¹¹For by me your days will be multiplied,
and years will be added to your life. ¹²If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Acts 8:14-25

¹⁴Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. ¹⁵The two went down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit ¹⁶(for as yet the Spirit had not come upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). ¹⁷Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, ¹⁹saying, "Give me also this power so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit." ²⁰But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's gift with money! ²¹You have no part or share in this, for your heart is not right before God. ²²Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the chains of wickedness." ²⁴Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may happen to me."
²⁵Now after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, proclaiming the good news to many villages of the Samaritans.

Luke 10:25-29, 38-42

²⁵Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.* ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ²⁶He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ ²⁷He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself.’ ²⁸And he said to him, ‘You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.’ ²⁹But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’

³⁸Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. ³⁹She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.’ ⁴¹But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried
and distracted by many things; ⁴²there is need of only one thing.* Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.’

Evening: Psalm 113:1-9

¹Praise the LORD!

Praise, O servants of the LORD;

praise the name of the LORD.

²Blessed be the name of the LORD

from this time on and forevermore.

³From the rising of the sun to its setting

the name of the LORD is to be praised.

⁴The LORD is high above all nations,

and his glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like the LORD our God,

who is seated on high,

⁶who looks far down

on the heavens and the earth?

⁷He raises the poor from the dust,

and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

⁸to make them sit with princes,

with the princes of his people.

⁹He gives the barren woman a home,

making her the joyous mother of children.

Praise the LORD!

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary:

Isaiah 49:8-16a

⁸Thus says the Lord:In a time of favour I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you;I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,* to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages; ⁹saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out’, to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’They shall feed along the ways, on all the bare heights* shall be their pasture; ¹⁰they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them down, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them. ¹¹And I will turn all my
mountains into a road, and my highways shall be raised up. ¹²Lo, these shall come from far away, and lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.* ¹³Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. ¹⁴But Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me.’ ¹⁵Can a woman forget her nursing-child, or show no compssion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. ¹⁶See, I have
inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Psalm 131:1-3

¹O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,

my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

too great and too marvellous for me.

²But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother;

my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.*

³O Israel, hope in the Lord

from this time on and for evermore.

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

¹Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. ²Moreover, it is required of stewards that they should be found trustworthy. ³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself. ⁴I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. ⁵ Therefore do not pronounce judgement before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God.

Matthew 6:24-34

²⁴No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.* Do Not Worry ²⁵‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,* or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life
more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?* ²⁸And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you — you of little faith?

³¹Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” ³²For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But strive first for the kingdom of God* and his* righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴‘So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.