Tuesday, June 4 | St. Andrew's Anglican Church

Psalm 45

¹ My heart overflows with a pleasing theme;
    I address my verses to the king;
    my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
²You are the most handsome of the sons of men;
    grace is poured upon your lips;
    therefore God has blessed you forever.
³Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
    in your splendor and majesty!
⁴In your majesty ride out victoriously
    for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness;
    let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!
⁵Your arrows are sharp
    in the heart of the king’s enemies;
    the peoples fall under you.
⁶Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
    The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
⁷you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
    Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
    with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
⁸your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
    From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;
⁹daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;
    at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
¹⁰Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:
    forget your people and your father’s house,
¹¹and the king will desire your beauty.
    Since he is your lord, bow to him.
¹²The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,
    the richest of the people.
¹³All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.
¹⁴In many-colored robes she is led to the king,
    with her virgin companions following behind her.
¹⁵With joy and gladness they are led along
    as they enter the palace of the king.
¹⁶In place of your fathers shall be your sons;
    you will make them princes in all the earth.
¹⁷I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
    therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.

Psalm 47

¹ Clap your hands, all peoples!
    Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
²For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared,
    a great king over all the earth.
³He subdued peoples under us,
    and nations under our feet.
⁴He chose our heritage for us,
    the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
⁵God has gone up with a shout,
    the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises!
    Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
⁷For God is the King of all the earth;
    sing praises with a psalm!
⁸God reigns over the nations;
    God sits on his holy throne.
⁹The princes of the peoples gather
    as the people of the God of Abraham.
   For the shields of the earth belong to God;
    he is highly exalted!

Psalm 48

¹ Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
    in the city of our God!
    His holy mountain, ²beautiful in elevation,
    is the joy of all the earth,
    Mount Zion, in the far north,
    the city of the great King.
³Within her citadels God
    has made himself known as a fortress.
⁴For behold, the kings assembled;
    they came on together.
⁵As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
    they were in panic; they took to flight.
⁶Trembling took hold of them there,
    anguish as of a woman in labor.
⁷By the east wind you shattered
    the ships of Tarshish.
⁸As we have heard, so have we seen
    in the city of the Lord of hosts,
    in the city of our God,
    which God will establish forever. Selah
⁹We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
    in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰As your name, O God,
    so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
    Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
¹¹Let Mount Zion be glad!
    Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
    because of your judgments!
¹²Walk about Zion, go around her,
    number her towers,
¹³consider well her ramparts,
    go through her citadels,
    that you may tell the next generation
¹⁴that this is God,
    our God forever and ever.
    He will guide us forever.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-26

¹⁶For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool! ¹⁷So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind. ¹⁸I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, ¹⁹and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. ²⁰So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, ²¹because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. ²²What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? ²³For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity. ²⁴There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, ²⁵for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? ²⁶For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Galatians 1:18-2:10

¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. ¹⁹But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother. ²⁰(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!) ²¹Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²²And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. ²³They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴And they glorified God because of me.

^2:1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. ²I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. ³But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.⁴Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery— ⁵to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. ⁶And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.⁷On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised ⁸(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), ⁹and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Matthew 13:53-58

⁵³And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, ⁵⁴and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?⁵⁵Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” ⁵⁷And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” ⁵⁸And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.