A.D. 2039 September 20

The Tuesday in the Sixteenth Week After Trinity

Collects

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.

Lessons

Revised Table of Lessons (1922)

Morning Prayer

Psalm 102; 103
Esther 3
Philippians 1:12–30

Evening Prayer

Psalm 104
Esther 4
John 14:15–31

Liturgical Colours

Green

Eve of Saint Matthew

Collects

O almighty God, who by thy blessed Son didst call Matthew from the receipt of custom to be an Apostle and Evangelist: Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires and inordinate love of riches, and to follow the same thy Son Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.