Morning Prayer: Thursday 14 August 2025

Thursday 14 August 2025

This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.

Maximilien Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, 1941
Week B

Week of Proper 19

O Lord, open our lips:
and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Glory to God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit;*
as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever. Amen.
Amen.

PSALMODY

Antiphon: Your sovereignty is an everlasting one;* your dominion endures throughout all ages. (Psalm 145.13)

Opening

Come, let us sing

1 Come, let us sing to the Lord; *
let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before the presence of the Lord with thanksgiving *
and raise a loud shout to God with psalms.
3 For you, O Lord, are a great God, *
and a great sovereign above all gods.
4 In your hand are the caverns of the earth, *
and the heights of the hills are yours also.
5 The sea is yours, for you made it, *
and your hands have moulded the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For you are our God, and we are the people of your pasture and the sheep of your hand. *
Oh, that today we would hearken to your voice!
8 “Harden not your hearts, *
as your forebears did in the wilderness.
9 They put me to the test, *
though they had seen my works.
10 So I swore in my wrath, *
‘They shall not enter into my rest.’”

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

(Or from Psalm 145)

1. I will exalt you, O God my sovereign,*
and bless your name for ever and ever.

2. All your works praise you, O Lord,*
and your faithful servants bless you.

3. They make known the glory of your dominion *
and speak of your power;

4. So that the peoples may know of your power *
and the glorious splendour of your dominion.

Glory ...
or a suitable hymn

Psalm 108
1. My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; *
I will sing and make melody.
2. Wake up, my spirit; awake, lute and harp; *
I myself will waken the dawn.
3. I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord; *
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4. For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens, *
and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
5. Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *
and your glory over all the earth.
6. So that those who are dear to you may be delivered, *
save with your strong hand and answer me.
7. You spoke from your heavenly dwelling and said, *
“I will exult and parcel out Shechem; I will divide the valley of Succoth.
8. Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine; *
Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my sceptre.
9. Moab is my washbasin; on Edom I throw down my sandal to claim it, *
and over Philistia will I shout in triumph.”
10. Who will lead me into the strong city? *
Who will bring me into Edom?
11. Have you not cast us off, O God? *
You no longer go out, O God, with our armies.
12. Grant us your help against the enemy, *
for vain is the help of mortals. You no longer go out, O God, with our armies.
13. With you we will do valiant deeds, *
and you shall tread our enemies under foot.

Glory ...

Psalm 110

1. The Lord said to my lord, ”Sit at my side in honour, *
until I make your enemies your footstool”
2. The Lord will send the sceptre of your power out of Zion, *
saying, ”Rule over your enemies round about you.
3. Royal state has been yours from the day of your birth, *
in the beauty of holiness have I begotten you, like dew from the womb of the morning.”
4. The Lord has sworn and will not recant: *
”You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
5. The Lord who is at your side will smite rulers in the day of wrath; *
and will rule over the nations.
6. The Lord will heap high the corpses, *
smashing heads over the wide earth.
7. The king will drink from the brook beside the road, *
therefore he will lift high his head.



Conclusion

Isaiah 40

1. The Lord is the everlasting God,*
the Creator of the ends of the earth,

2. who does not faint nor grow weary,*
whose understanding is unsearchable,

3. who gives power to the faint,*
increase of strength to those who have no might.

4. Even youth shall faint and be weary;*
the young shall fall exhausted.

5 But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;*
they shall mount up with wings like eagles.

6. They shall run and not be weary,*
they shall walk and not faint.

Glory ...

Your sovereignty is an everlasting one;* your dominion endures throughout all ages.

READING(S)

2 Samuel 15.1-18

After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run ahead of him. Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the road into the gate; and when anyone brought a suit before the king for judgement, Absalom would call out and say, ‘From what city are you?’ When the person said, ‘Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel’, Absalom would say, ‘See, your claims are good and right; but there is no one deputed by the king to hear you.’ Absalom said moreover, ‘If only I were judge in the land! Then all who had a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give them justice.’ Whenever people came near to do obeisance to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of them, and kiss them. Thus Absalom did to every Israelite who came to the king for judgement; so Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel.

At the end of four years Absalom said to the king, ‘Please let me go to Hebron and pay the vow that I have made to the Lord. For your servant made a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram: If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will worship the Lord in Hebron.’ The king said to him, ‘Go in peace.’ So he got up, and went to Hebron. But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, ‘As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then shout: Absalom has become king at Hebron!’ Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom; they were invited guests, and they went in their innocence, knowing nothing of the matter. While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city Giloh. The conspiracy grew in strength, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.
A messenger came to David, saying, ‘The hearts of the Israelites have gone after Absalom.’ Then David said to all his officials who were with him at Jerusalem, ‘Get up! Let us flee, or there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry, or he will soon overtake us, and bring disaster down upon us, and attack the city with the edge of the sword.’ The king’s officials said to the king, ‘Your servants are ready to do whatever our lord the king decides.’ So the king left, followed by all his household, except ten concubines whom he left behind to look after the house. The king left, followed by all the people; and they stopped at the last house. All his officials passed by him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.

Acts 21.27-36

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had seen him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd. They seized him, shouting, ‘Fellow-Israelites, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place; more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.’ For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. Then all the city was aroused, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. While they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. When they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. Then the tribune came, arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he inquired who he was and what he had done. Some in the crowd shouted one thing, some another; and as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks. When Paul came to the steps, the violence of the mob was so great that he had to be carried by the soldiers. The crowd that followed kept shouting, ‘Away with him!’

Silence

Response (Psalm 86.12)

I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart.
I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart.
I will glorify your name for evermore.
With all my heart.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart.

SONG OF ZECHARIAH

Song of Zechariah Antiphon: God has come to us * * and set us free.

1 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel,* for he has come to his people and set them free.
2 He has raised up for us a mighty saviour,* born of the house of his servant David.
3 Through his holy prophets he promised of old* that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all that hate us.
4 He promised to show mercy to our forebears,* and to remember his holy covenant.
5 This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:* to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
6 free to worship him without fear,* holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
7 You my child shall be called the prophet of the Most High,* for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
8 to give his people knowledge of salvation* by the forgiveness of all their sins.
9 In the tender compassion of our God* the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
10 to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,* and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Glory ... (may be said by all)

Song of Zechariah Antiphon: God has come to us * * and set us free.

PRAYERS

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Do not bring us to the time of trial,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and for ever.

Amen



Collect of the Day

Open your merciful ears, O Lord,
to the prayers of your humble servants:
and, that you would graciously grant what we ask,
make us desire what is pleasing in your sight;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end.
Amen

God most holy, we give you thanks for bringing us out of the shadow of night into the light of morning; and we ask you for the joy of spending this day in your service, so that when evening comes, we may once more give you thanks, through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.
Amen

Let us bless the Lord:
Thanks be to God!

The Lord bless us and preserve us from all evil;
and bring us to life eternal.
Amen.