Book of Common Prayer Sunday Eucharistic Lectionary Propers

Appointed for the Week of 

The Ninth Sunday After Trinity

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THE COLLECT.

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GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee,

the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful;

that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee,

may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Amen.

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THE EPISTLE. 1 Corinthians 10. 1.

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BRETHREN,

I would not that ye should be ignorant,

how that all our fathers were under the cloud,

and all passed through the sea;

and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, and in the sea;

and did all eat the same spiritual food,

and did all drink the same spiritual drink:

for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them;

and that rock was Christ.

But with many of them God was not well pleased;

for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were our examples,

to the intent we should not lust after evil things,

as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them;

as it is written,

The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man:

but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;

but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?

The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

For we being many are one bread, and one body:

for we are all partakers of that one bread.

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THE GOSPEL. St Luke 16. 1.

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JESUS said unto his disciples,

There was a certain rich man which had a steward;

and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods.

And he called him, and said unto him,

How is it that I hear this of thee?

Give an account of thy stewardship;

for thou mayest be no longer steward.

Then the steward said within himself,

What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship:

I cannot dig, to beg I am ashamed.

I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship,

they may receive me into their houses.

So he called every one of his master’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first,

How much owest thou to my master?

And he said,

An hundred measures of oil.

And he said unto him,

Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

Then said he to another,

And how much owest thou?

And he said,

An hundred measures of wheat.

And he said unto him,

Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

And his master praised the unrighteous steward, because he had acted with prudence:

for the children of this age are in their generation more prudent than the children of light.

And I say unto you,

Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness;

and when it fails you, they will receive you into everlasting habitations.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much;

and he that is unrighteous in that which is least is unrighteous also in much.

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