Thursday after the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

The lessons

Morning, first lesson

Esther 8In place of 1 Macc. 1:1-19. The 1922 table appoints that lesson from the Apocrypha.

Morning, second lesson

Philippians 2:12–30

Evening, first lesson

Esther 9:1–19In place of 1 Macc. 1:20-40. The 1922 table appoints that lesson from the Apocrypha.

Evening, second lesson

John 16:1–15

The lessons come from the Revised Tables of Lessons (1922). The psalms follow the day of the month, in the order of 1662. Open a date in the app to sing the psalm of that day.

The collect

The collect for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, from the Book of Common Prayer (1662).

KEEP, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy: and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.