Friday - Advent 3
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Highlights & Mini-Bible Study
Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication
Friday in the Third Week in Advent
Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also. Isaiah 45:8, NRSV, EOW 1
Today | Friday | 16 December 2016
Psalm 40 | A song of thanksgiving and a plea
I wait for the Lord;
Your deeds are wondrous;
If I were to proclaim them they would be endless;
I delight in your law within my heart.
Isaiah 10 | Prediction that Assyria will fall and Davidic monarchy will be restored.
Zion will be restored; Assyria will be destroyed; the remnant of God will be small but survive.
Matthew 11 |John wonders about Jesus
John was in prison and sends word through his disciples: Are you the one?;
Jesus replies -
The blind see
The lame walk
Lepers are cleansed
The deaf hear
The dead are raised
The poor have good news
Anyone is blessed who hears and are not offended.
They leave and Jesus tells the crowd of John being the fulfillment of prophecy and Elijah has come.
S: Book of Common Prayer; Mission St Clare; New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th ed.; HS+
Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and forever. Amen.
Canticle 16 The Song of Zechariah
Luke 1:68-79
Benedictus Dominus Deus
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;*
he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,*
born of the house of his servant David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old,
that he would save us from our enemies,*
from the hands of all who hate us.
he promised to show mercy to our fathers*
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham,*
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
Free to worship him without fear,*
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life.
You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High,*
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
To give his people knowledge of salvation*
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender compassion of our God*
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,*
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
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