Sept 1st 2024 Proper 17 Year B RCL Track 1

The Lessons Appointed for Use on the

Sunday closest to August 31

Proper 17

Year B

RCL

Track 1

or

Track 2

Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10

James 1:17-27

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

The Collect

Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.

Old Testament

Song of Solomon 2:8-13

The voice of my beloved!

Look, he comes,

leaping upon the mountains,

bounding over the hills.

My beloved is like a gazelle

or a young stag.

Look, there he stands

behind our wall,

gazing in at the windows,

looking through the lattice.

My beloved speaks and says to me:

"Arise, my love, my fair one,

and come away;

for now the winter is past,

the rain is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth;

the time of singing has come,

and the voice of the turtledove

is heard in our land.

The fig tree puts forth its figs,

and the vines are in blossom; 

they give forth fragrance.

Arise, my love, my fair one,

and come away."

The Psalm

Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10

Eructavit cor meum

1 My heart is stirring with a noble song; 

let me recite what I have fashioned for the king; * 

my tongue shall be the pen of a skilled writer.

2 You are the fairest of men; * 

grace flows from your lips, 

because God has blessed you for ever.

7 Your throne, O God, endures for ever and ever, * 

a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom; 

you love righteousness and hate iniquity.

8 Therefore God, your God, has anointed you * 

with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

9 All your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia, * 

and the music of strings from ivory palaces makes you glad.

10 Kings' daughters stand among the ladies of the court; * 

on your right hand is the queen, 

adorned with the gold of Ophir.

or

Old Testament

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9

Moses said: So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.

You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!” For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him? And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?

But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days...