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Tuesday April 29 - Morning
Tuesday April 29 - Evening

ANZPB Online
The Lectionary - Year C - 2024
New Zealand Prayer Book Daily Prayer - Bosco Peters

Tuesday April 29 - Morning

Recommended liturgies
ANZPB pp69-71 or pp114-116

The readings are those set for Morning Prayer for April 29.

Psalm 8
Deuteronomy 1:19-40
John 20:11-18
Collect

Psalm 8

¹ Lord, our Lord,
 how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
 in the heavens.
² Through the praise of children and infants
 you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
 to silence the foe and the avenger.
³ When I consider your heavens,
 the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
 which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
 human beings that you care for them?

⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels
 and crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
 you put everything under their feet:
⁷ all flocks and herds,
 and the animals of the wild,
⁸ the birds in the sky,
 and the fish in the sea,
 all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
 how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and shall be for ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 1:19-40

¹⁹ Then, as the Lord our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful wilderness that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. ²⁰ Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. ²¹ See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

²² Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.”

²³ The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. ²⁴ They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it. ²⁵ Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.”

²⁶ But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷ You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. ²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’”

²⁹ Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. ³⁰ The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, ³¹ and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

³² In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, ³³ who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

³⁴ When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: ³⁵ “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors, ³⁶ except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.”

³⁷ Because of you the Lord became angry with me also and said, “You shall not enter it, either. ³⁸ But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it. ³⁹ And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.

John 20:11-18

¹¹ Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb ¹² and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

¹³ They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” ¹⁴ At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

¹⁵ He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

¹⁷ Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Collect

God of life,
who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross,
and by his glorious resurrection
have delivered us from the power of our enemy:
grant us so to die daily to sin,
the we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord
Amen.

Daily Office SFF, p45

Tuesday April 29 - Evening

Recommended liturgies
ANZPB pp72-74 or pp116-118

The readings are those set for Evening Prayer for April 29.

Psalm 104
Exodus 15:22-16:10
Colossians 1:15-end
Collect

Psalm 104

¹ Praise the Lord, my soul.

Lord my God, you are very great;
 you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

² The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;
 he stretches out the heavens like a tent
 ³ and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot
 and rides on the wings of the wind.
⁴ He makes winds his messengers,
 flames of fire his servants.

⁵ He set the earth on its foundations;
 it can never be moved.
⁶ You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment;
 the waters stood above the mountains.
⁷ But at your rebuke the waters fled,
 at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
⁸ they flowed over the mountains,
 they went down into the valleys,
 to the place you assigned for them.
⁹ You set a boundary they cannot cross;
 never again will they cover the earth.

¹⁰ He makes springs pour water into the ravines;
 it flows between the mountains.
¹¹ They give water to all the beasts of the field;
 the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² The birds of the sky nest by the waters;
 they sing among the branches.
¹³ He waters the mountains from his upper chambers;
 the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.
¹⁴ He makes grass grow for the cattle,
 and plants for people to cultivate—
 bringing forth food from the earth:
¹⁵ wine that gladdens human hearts,
 oil to make their faces shine,
 and bread that sustains their hearts.
¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are well watered,
 the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
¹⁷ There the birds make their nests;
 the stork has its home in the junipers.
¹⁸ The high mountains belong to the wild goats;
 the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

¹⁹ He made the moon to mark the seasons,
 and the sun knows when to go down.
²⁰ You bring darkness, it becomes night,
 and all the beasts of the forest prowl.
²¹ The lions roar for their prey
 and seek their food from God.
²² The sun rises, and they steal away;
 they return and lie down in their dens.
²³ Then people go out to their work,
 to their labor until evening.

²⁴ How many are your works, Lord!
 In wisdom you made them all;
 the earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵ There is the sea, vast and spacious,
 teeming with creatures beyond number—
 living things both large and small.
²⁶ There the ships go to and fro,
 and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

²⁷ All creatures look to you
 to give them their food at the proper time.
²⁸ When you give it to them,
 they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
 they are satisfied with good things.
²⁹ When you hide your face,
 they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
 they die and return to the dust.
³⁰ When you send your Spirit,
 they are created,
 and you renew the face of the ground.

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
 may the Lord rejoice in his works—
³² he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,
 who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³ I will sing to the Lord all my life;
 I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
³⁴ May my meditation be pleasing to him,
 as I rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵ But may sinners vanish from the earth
 and the wicked be no more.

Praise the Lord, my soul.

Praise the Lord.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and shall be for ever. Amen.

Exodus 15:22-16:10

²² Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. ²³ When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) ²⁴ So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

²⁵ Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.

There the Lord issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test. ²⁶ He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”

²⁷ Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.

^{[16] 1} The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. ² In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. ³ The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. ⁵ On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

⁶ So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, ⁷ and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” ⁸ Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”

⁹ Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”

¹⁰ While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud.

Colossians 1:15-end

¹⁵ The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. ¹⁹ For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, ²⁰ and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. ²² But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— ²³ if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. ²⁵ I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— ²⁶ the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. ²⁷ To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

²⁸ He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. ²⁹ To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

Collect

God of life,
who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross,
and by his glorious resurrection
have delivered us from the power of our enemy:
grant us so to die daily to sin,
the we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord
Amen.

Daily Office SFF, p45