Morning Prayer for Tuesday 3.17.26

Today we recognize St Patrick as our Saint of the day. Join us live or listen to our podcast or our unedited service. Our Liturgy can be found here: Morning Prayer 3.17.26, Patrick of Ireland, Bishop and Missionary, 461 | Daily Office Network

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Good morning and welcome. I'm Father Tom Roy, the vicar of the Daily Office Network. I'm an ordained priest in the Diocese of Minnesota. The Daily Office Network is a community of Christians who gather together on a daily basis to worship and pray morning prayer. We use the 1979 Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer as our guide. We mix an artwork, a news story, we have a video at the end. All are welcome here where we do our best to exercise tolerance and decency with one another. Now let's settle in and begin morning prayer. Let's begin. When the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk. What? Photograph of a uh church service on board a one of our uh ships. The Episcopal Church is supporting its military service members, including chaplains, and some of them who are stationed in the Middle East prepare to serve during wartime, and others prepare to deploy to the region. An undisclosed number of Episcopal chaplains are serving on military bases in the United States and worldwide. All of those serving in the Persian Gulf region have been accounted for. The right Reverend Anne Retonia, the Episcopal Church's Bishop Suffragan at the Force for Armed Forces and Federal Ministries, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran told the Episcopal News Service part of her job overseeing military chaplains requires that she be in regular communication with them. Am I making sure that they have all that they need and that they know they have the prayers and support of the church for the work that they do? Look back at that picture one more time. I'll lead us in the confession of sin, after which I'll ask Mother Angel to pronounce absolution and Addy to lead us in the invitatory and the Psalter. First, the confession of sin. Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us, that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your name. Amen.

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Almighty God, have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen. Amen.

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Lord, open our lips, and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

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Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. Come, let us sing to the Lord. Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before God's presence with thanksgiving and raise to the Lord a shout with psalms. For you are a great God, you are great above all gods. In your hand are the caverns of the earth, and the heights of the hills are yours also. The sea is yours, for you made it, and your hands have rolled it the dry land. Come, let us bow down and bend the knee and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For you are our God, and we are the people of your pastor and the sheep of your hand. Oh, that today we would hearken to your voice.

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Thank you, Abby. Our psalms this morning are Psalm number 97 and Psalm number 99. And as it is a day when we recognize St. Patrick, I'm going to ask Jill to start our Psalm. She's all decked out for St. Patrick's Day today. And also Martha, if you would join in and the two of you trade off with the verses.

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The Lord is sovereign, let the earth rejoice, let the multitude of the isles be glad.

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House and darkness are round about you. Righteousness and justice are the foundations of your home.

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A fire goes before you and burns up your enemies on every side.

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Your lightnings light up the wall. The earth sees it and is afraid.

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The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord. At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

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And all the peoples see your glory.

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Confounded be all who worship carved images and delight in false gods. Bow down before the Lord, all you God.

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Zion, yes, and is glad, and the cities of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O Lord.

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For you are the Lord most high over all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

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The Lord preserves the lives of the faithful and delivers them from the end of the of the wicked.

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Light has sprung up for the righteous and joyful gladness for those who are true hearted.

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Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, and to the holy name of the Lord give your grace.

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The Lord is sovereign, let the people tremble. The Lord is enthroned upon the cherubim, let the earth shake.

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The Lord is great in Zion and is high above all peoples.

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Let them confess the name of the Lord, which is great and awesome. The Lord is the Holy One.

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Mighty sovereign lover of justice, you have established equity. You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

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Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and fall down before the footstool of the Holy One.

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You call upon the Lord and you answer them. You are a God who forgive them, yet punish them for their evil deeds.

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Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and worship him upon God's holy hill. For the Lord our God is the Holy One.

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Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.

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Amen.

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Thank you, Jill and Martha. Painting by James J. Tusot from 1896. Morning for Jacob at Gorin Atad. It's in the Brooklyn Museum. Our reading is from Genesis chapter 49, verse 29 through 5014. Patricia, would you lead this?

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Then Jacob charged his twelve sons, saying to them, I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave of the field at Machphelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham brought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah. The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites. When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people. Then Joseph threw himself on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him. Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. They spent 40 days in doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him for 70 days. When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh. If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows. He said, I am about to die in the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, and there you shall bury me. Now therefore let me go up so that I may bury my father, then I will return. Pharaoh answered, Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do. So Joseph went to bury his father. With him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, there they held a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father, seven days. When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atag, they said, This is a grievous mourning on the part of the Egyptians. Therefore, the place was named Abelmuzar Abel Nuzaram. It is beyond the Jordan. Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them. They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the people of Machfilah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite. After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with them to bury his father. The word of the Lord.

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Thanks be to God. Thank you, Patricia. Our first canticle is a song of praise. Mother Angel, would you lead this?

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You are worthy of praise. Glory to you. Glory to you for the radiance of your holy name. We will praise you and highly exalt you forever. Glory to you in the splendor of your temple on the throne of your majesty. Glory to you. Glory to you, seated between the cherubim. We will praise you and highly exalt you forever. Glory to you, beholding the deaths in the high vault of heaven. Glory to you. Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We will praise you and highly exalt you forever.

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Thank you, Mother Angel. Well, we can see a table set here. This is Christ Church in Bethany, Connecticut. Our reading is from First Corinthians chapter eleven, verses seventeen through thirty-four. Paul, would you lead this?

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Now in the following instructions, I do not commend you, because when you came together, it is not for the better, but for the worse. For to begin with, when you come when you come together as a church, I excuse me, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. Indeed, there have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine. When you come together it is not really to eat the Lord's supper. For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry, and another becomes drunk. What? Do you not have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I matter I do not commend you. For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Examine yourselves, and only then eat the bread and drink of the cup, for all who eat and drink without discerning the body eat and drink judgment against themselves. For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world along with the world. So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. If you are hungry, eat at home, so that when you come together it will not be for your condemnation. About the other things I will give instructions when I come. The word of the Lord.

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Thanks be to God. Thank you, Paul. Our next canticle is a song to the lamb, Mother Unjo.

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Splendor and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God, for you created everything that is, and by your will they were created, and have their being, and yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for with your blood you have redeemed our God. From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and so to him who sits upon the throne, and to Christ the Lamb, be worship and praise, dominion and splendor forever and forevermore. Splendor and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God.

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Thank you, Mother Unjo. They took up the broken pieces that were left over and had seven baskets full. Our reading is from Mark chapter eight, verses one through ten. Deacon Diana, would you lead this?

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In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from a great distance. His disciples replied, How can we feed these people with bread here in the desert? He asked them, How many loaves do we have? They said, Seven. Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute. And they distributed them to the crowd. They had also a few small fish, and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be distributed. They ate and were filled, and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. Now there were about four thousand people, and he sent them away. And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmenutha. The word of the Lord.

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Thanks be to God. Thank you, deacon. And now the apostles' creed. Robert, would you lead us in the creed?

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I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven. He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

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Thank you, Robert. And now the prayers begin with our Lord's Prayer. Marcia, would you lead us in the Lord's Prayer and then we'll read the suffrages?

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The Lord be with you.

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Also with you.

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Let us pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

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Show us your mercy, O Lord.

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And grant us your salvation.

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Clothe your ministers with righteousness.

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Let your people sing with joy.

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Give peace, O Lord, in all the world.

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For only in you we live in safety.

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Lord, keep this nation and our nations under your care.

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And guide us in the way of justice and truth.

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Let your ways be known upon earth.

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Your saving health among all nations.

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Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten.

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Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.

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Create in us clean hearts, O God.

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And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.

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Thank you, Marcia. Saint Patrick, our saint of the day. Notice he's holding up three leaf clovers. Patrick was born in Great Britain, the son of a deacon and the grandson of a priest. At age 16, he was carried off by Irish slave traders and first forced to work as a shepherd. He escaped five years later, returned to Britain, and received holy orders. Then he had a vision that he should go back to Ireland and instruct the people in the ways of Jesus, Jesus Christ, becoming in the process the nation's patron saint. Prompting us here in America to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Saint Patrick, our saint of the day. Now two prayers, the collect of the day for Patrick of Ireland, a bishop and a missionary, and a collect for the nation. Michael Brown, would you lead these two prayers?

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Almighty God, in your providence, you chose your servant Patrick to be the apostle of the Irish people, to bring those who were wandering in darkness and error to the true light and knowledge of your of you. Grant us so to walk in that way that we may come at last to the light of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and with the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Lord God Almighty, you have made all the peoples of the earth for your glory, to serve you in freedom and peace. Give to the people of our countries a zeal for justice and the strength of forbearance, that we may use our liberty in accordance with your gracious will. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.

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Amen. Thank you, Michael. And now it's time for our weekly report on military news, which is called They Have Names. It was started in 2007 by our late honorary deacon, Clint Gillilan, a retired Navy medic. They have names, our service members at home and abroad. They're in danger from the minute that they take the oath. We tell of their heroism, and if there are casualties, we speak their names. We pray for all of them and pray to God for peace in every nation. And here's where things stand this week. I'm aware of the six service members that died in the Air Force plane that went down. However, Military.com has not listed their photographs or their names. I can get them from another source, so we may use them next week if Military.com does not release them. However, we have another military member who was killed. We just don't know the details. A picture of police officer Sorfly DeVeas. An NYPD officer serving overseas with the Army National Guard died in Kuwait, prompting tributes from New York leaders in the military community. Police officer Sorfly Devayas, assigned to Brooklyn's 79th Precinct, died on March the 6th at Camp Buharing in Kuwait after suffering a medical episode while deployed with the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division, according to the city and state officials. The NYPD mourns the loss of police officer Sorfly Devias, who died after suffering a medical episode while deployed to Kuwait. The New York Police Department posted in a statement on X. Officer DeVaias served in the 42nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army National Guard and rose to the rank of Major. Devias joined the New York Police Department in 2014 and he served in Brooklyn's 79th precinct, which covers parts of Bedford Stravesant, according to the department. Military.com reached out for comment to the New York Army National Guard and the National Guard Bureau, the U.S. Central Command, and the NYPD Benevolent Association. Officials have not released any additional details about the circumstances surrounding his death. Based on the news that came out, we assume he had a medical episode like a heart attack or something like that and died as a result of it, but they're not telling us.

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Almighty God, you send your son Jesus Christ to reconcile the world to yourself. We praise and bless you for those whom you have sent in the power of the Spirit to preach the gospel to all nations. We thank you that in all parts of the earth a community of love has been gathered together by their prayers and labors, and that in every place your servants call upon your name for the kingdom, and the power and the glory are yours forever. Amen.

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Let us bless the Lord.

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Thanks be to God.

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Now go in safety, for you cannot go where God is not. Go in love, for love alone endures, and go in peace, for that is God's gift to those whose hearts and minds are in his Son Jesus. And God's blessing be with you. Christ's peace be with you. The Spirit's outpouring be with you now and always. Amen. That is morning prayer on this Tuesday, Saint Patrick's Day. Thank you for coming to pray today. Wherever you go, take that love of Jesus that lives inside of you and your heart. Share that Jesus with the world. Show that Jesus to the world. Hope to see you back with us tomorrow, safe and sound.