Daily Bible Reading

Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Chief Hymn: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book (1918) #277

Liturgical Color: Green

Introit

THE LORD - || was | my | sup- | port. | - *

He brought me out into a | broad | place;

|| He de- | liv- | ered | me | - *

Because He delighted | in | me. (Psalm 18:18b–19)

|| I will love You, O | Lord, | my | strength. | - *

The Lord is my rock and my | for- | tress.

|| For You will save the | hum- | ble | peo- | ple, *

But will bring down haugh- | ty | looks.

|| As for God, His | way | is | per- | fect; *

The word of the Lord is | prov- | en;

|| Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, a- | mong | the | Gen- | tiles, *

And sing praises to | Your | name. (Psalm 18:1-2a, 27, 30, and 49)

GLORIA PATRI (From Hymnal)

|| The Lord was | my | sup- | port. | - *

He brought me out into a | broad | place;

|| He de- | liv- | ered | me | - *

Because He delighted | in | me. (Psalm 18:18–19)

Psalm Readings

Matins: Psalm 119:9-16

Vespers: Psalm 28

Collect

O Lord, Who never failest to help and govern those whom Thou dost bring up in Thy steadfast fear and love, make us to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Old Testament Reading (TLH): Is 25:6-9

And in this mountain The Lord of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord ; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

First Reading: 1 John 3:13-18

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Gradual

|| In my distress I cried | to | the | Lord, | - *

And He | heard | me.

|| Deliver my soul, O Lord, from | ly- | ing | lips | - *

And from a deceit- | ful | tongue. (Psalm 120:1–2)

Verse

|| Al- | — | le- | lu- | ia!

Alle- | lu- | ia!

|| God is | a | just | judge, | - *

And God is angry with the wicked every day. Alle- | lu- | ia! (Psalm 7:11)

Second Reading: Luke 14:16-24

Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.