“Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him.
‘Odd, isn’t it,’ he said, ‘that a thief and a vagabond should repent,
when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous,
and without fruit for God or man?”
G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown
(a cold crab washed up on the beach / Rosemary Beach, Fl / Julie Cook / 2019)
The Daily Office for the Thursday closet to March 3—
Words most applicable to the burdens of this week.
The call to prayer:
Come now let us reason together
Isaiah 1:18
The Request for Presence:
Awake, O my God, decree justice, let the assembly of peoples gather around you.
Let the malice of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, for
you test the mind and heart, O righteous God.
The Greeting:
Deliver me, O Lord, by your hand, and peace shall be a pathway from his feet.
Psalm 85:13
A Reading:
Seek out YAHWEH while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near.
Let the wicked abandon his way and the evil one his thoughts,
Let him turn back to YAHWEH who will take pity on him, to our God, for he is rich in
forgiveness, for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways,
declares YAHWEH.
For the heavens are as high above the earth as my ways are above your ways,
my thoughts above your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:6-9
The Refrain:
Righteousness shall go before him, and peace shall be a pathway for his feet.
Midday Psalm:
‘You Will Save a Lowly People’
With the faithful you show yourself faithful, O God, with the forthright you
show yourself forthright.
With the pure you show yourself pure, but with the crooked you are wily.
You will save a lowly people, but you will humble the haughty eyes,
You, O Lord, are my lamp; my God, you make my darkness bright.
With you I will break down an enclosure; with the help of my God I will scale any wall.
As for God, his ways are perfect; the words of the Lord are tried in the fire,
he is a shield to all who trust in him.
For who is God, but the Lord? who is the Rock, except our God?
Psalm 18:26-32
The Refrain:
Righteousness shall go before him, and peach shall be a pathway for his feet.
The Cry of the Chruch:
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.
The Lords Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven hallowed be your Name.
May your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil;
for yours are the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.
The Prayer Appointed for the Week:
O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory
upon the holy mountain:
Grant that I, beholding by faith the light of his countenance,
may be strengthened to bear my cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory;
through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
The Concluding Prayer of the Chruch:
Renew in my heart, O God, the gift of your Holy Spirit,
that I may love you fully in all that
I do and love all others as Christ loves me.
May all that I do proclaim the good news that you are God with us. Amen
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