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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 15m

How long shall I have perplexity in my mind, and grief in my heart, day after day? * how long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Psalm 13.2 (Book of Alternative Services, page 717)

Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 45m

They set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah. Numbers 33.33 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 1h

They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; / there is none that doeth good, no not one.
Psalm 14.2 (1962 Book of Common Prayer, page 343)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 1h

The Lord of hosts will protect them,
and they shall consume and conquer the slingers;
they shall drink their blood like wine
and be full like a bowl,
drenched like the corners of the altar.
Zechariah 9.15 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 2h

And call upon me in the time of trouble; / so will I deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.’
Psalm 50.15 (1962 Book of Common Prayer, page 393)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 2h

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. John 9.22 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 3h

I am filled with a burning rage, * because of the wicked who forsake your law.
Psalm 119.53 (Book of Alternative Services, page 872)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 3h

When Joab saw that the line of battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans; 1 Chronicles 19.10 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 4h

By this I know you are pleased with me, * that my enemy does not triumph over me.
Psalm 41.11 (Book of Alternative Services, page 757)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 4h

Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
turn your foot away from evil.Proverbs 4.27 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 5h

Yours are the heavens; the earth also is yours; * you laid the foundations of the world and all that is in it.
Psalm 89.11 (Book of Alternative Services, page 823)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 5h

You can find a PDF of the BAS and our BCP on www.anglican.ca. meanwhile, prayerbook.ca also has an online version of the 1962 Psalter.

Welcome to the Anglican Church of Canada

The Anglican Church of Canada, a partner in the worldwide Anglican Communion, has approximately 600,000 members in 2,800 parishes across Canada.

www.anglican.ca

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 5h

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop
than in a house shared with a contentious wife.
Proverbs 25.24 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 6h

Have you not cast us off, O God? * you no longer go out, O God, with our armies.
Psalm 60.10 (Book of Alternative Services, page 781)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 6h

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, these are in the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 2 Chronicles 33.18 (NRSV)

Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 7h

Let us go to God’s dwelling place; * let us fall upon our knees before his footstool.”
Psalm 132.7 (Book of Alternative Services, page 889)

Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 7h

much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead. Acts 4.2 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 8h

It is he who rules the world with righteousness; * he judges the peoples with equity.
Psalm 9.8 (Book of Alternative Services, page 713)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 8h

is vanity, since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath. Ecclesiastes 9.2 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 8h

a cartoon character is pointing at the camera with his finger .

ALT: a cartoon character is pointing at the camera with his finger .

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 9h

That's a ruff look.

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 9h

MY soul truly waiteth in silence upon God; / for of him cometh my salvation.
Psalm 62.1 (1962 Book of Common Prayer, page 404)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 9h

Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
John 18.24 (NRSV)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 10h

Thou waterest her furrows, smoothing the ridges thereof: / thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.
Psalm 65.12 (1962 Book of Common Prayer, page 408)

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 10h

And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of all of you and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling. 2 Corinthians 7.15 (NRSV)

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