Day 193 - Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Read | Day 193 | Sunday | July 12
Psalm 119: 1-176

Date | The following psalms are undated but placed here during Hezekiah's reign (715 - 687 BC) because he might have been the one to collect them.

Background | The Book of Psalms: An Overview | Dr. Felix Just, S.J. | Click here

Reading | Ps 119 is the longest psalm in the Hebrew Scriptures that we have today. The Book of Common Prayer uses this psalm every Wednesday and breaks it into sections with each section striving to tell of something of the human condition or what prayers were important to the writer.  The easiest way to get through this psalm (and all psalms) is to pray you way through it.  

What is the writer praying for? How does this impact or is relevant to my life?

Sometimes it can be just giving me the words to pray in circumstances that I have a hard time articulating. Sometimes we just have to praise and thank God for what the Lord has given to us today. Sometimes we gain the rhythm of life and God. 
This psalm can't be cleanly classified as it is one of free composition.

Source | Literary Sources from the Psalms - Notes by Barbara Klugh -- Click here

Source | Tyndale (2012-03-19) | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | Tyndale House Publishers| Kindle Edition

Next |Day 194 | Monday | July 13 
Psalm 120: 1-7 
Psalm 121: 1-8 
Psalm 123: 1-4 
Psalm 125: 1-5 
Psalm 126: 1-6 

Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9

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Listen to the Daily Prayers | Click here

O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

Source | Mission St Clare | click here

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