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Rogation Tuesday

The First Lesson
The Second Lesson
The Collect
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The Psalter


Psalm 80


The Eightieth Psalm

Qui regis Israel.


HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; * show thyself also, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim.
 
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, * stir up thy strength, and come and help us.
 
Turn us again, O God; * show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
 
O LORD God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth?
 
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, * and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.
 
Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, * and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
 
Turn us again, thou God of hosts; * show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
 
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; * thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
 
Thou madest room for it; * and when it had taken root, it filled the land.
 
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, * and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.
 
She stretched out her branches unto the sea, * and her boughs unto the River.
 
Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, * that all they that go by pluck off her grapes?
 
The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, * and the wild beasts of the field devour it.
 
Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, * behold, and visit this vine;
 
And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted, * and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.
 
It is burnt with fire, and cut down; * and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
 
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, * and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.
 
And so will not we go back from thee: * let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name.
 
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; * show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.



 

The First Lesson


Deuteronomy 11:10-17


For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.



 

The Second Lesson

St. Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.



 

The Collect

Rogation Days

ALMIGHTY God, Lord of heaven and earth; We beseech thee to pour forth thy blessing upon this land, and to give us a fruitful season; that we, constantly receiving thy bounty, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Fifth Sunday After Easter (Rogation Sunday)

O LORD, from whom all good things do come; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things which are good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.



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