Psalm 8
Thursday in Easter Week
Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery
established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all
who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body
may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all
who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body
may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Lectionary for Thursday in Easter Week (BCP 894)
Psalm 8 or 114 or 118:19-24
Acts 3:11-26
Luke 24:36b-48
Until the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, all of our prayer books used the Coverdale Psalter from the sixteenth century Bible of Miles Coverdale (1488-1569). It precedes the seventeenth century King James Bible (1611) and was the familiar and beloved psalter of Anglicans for centuries. The 1979 book has a contemporary translation of the psalms, which are for the most part good, but lose some of their richness and memorability for both reading and singing. Of all the twentieth century changes to the prayer book, leaving the Coverdale Psalter is the one sadness that still hangs on in my heart. Songs and poetry should be modernized little or not! TW+
Psalm 8. Domine, Dominus noster.
O LORD our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world; thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens!
Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast
thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies,
that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers;
the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and theson of man, that thou visitest him?
Thou madest him lower than the angels,
to crown him with glory and worship.
Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands;
and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet:
All sheep and oxen; yea, and the beasts of the field;
The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea;
and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
O LORD our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world!