Thursday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

The lessons

Morning, first lesson

2 Chronicles 30In place of 1 Maccabees 6:1-17. The 1922 table appoints that lesson from the Apocrypha.

Morning, second lesson

Colossians 2:20–3:11

Evening, first lesson

2 Chronicles 31In place of 1 Maccabees 6:18-47. The 1922 table appoints that lesson from the Apocrypha.

Evening, second lesson

John 19:31–42

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 Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, from the Book of Common Prayer (1662).

O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.