Morning Prayer

Saturday before Holy Trinity
Saturday, May 30, 2026

The Invitatory and Psalter

Lord, open our lips.

And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Alleluia.

The mercy of the Lord is everlasting: Come let us adore him.

Venite Psalm 95:1–7

Come let us sing to the Lord; *

let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *

and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God, *

and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *

and the heights of the hills are his also.

The sea is his, for he made it, *

and his hands have molded the dry land.

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *

and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *

Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

The mercy of the Lord is everlasting: Come let us adore him.

Psalm 8 Domine, Dominus noster

O Lord our Governor, *

how exalted is your Name in all the world!

Out of the mouths of infants and children *

your majesty is praised above the heavens.

You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *

to quell the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *

the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,

What is man that you should be mindful of him? *

the son of man that you should seek him out?

You have made him but little lower than the angels; *

you adorn him with glory and honor;

You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *

you put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, *

even the wild beasts of the field,

The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *

and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.

O Lord our Governor, *

how exalted is you Name in all the world!

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

The Lessons

First Lesson Job 38:22–38 (NRSV)

²²“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,

or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

²³which I have reserved for the time of trouble,

for the day of battle and war?

²⁴What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,

or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

²⁵“Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain,

and a way for the thunderbolt,

²⁶to bring rain on a land where no one lives,

on the desert, which is empty of human life,

²⁷to satisfy the waste and desolate land,

and to make the ground put forth grass?

²⁸“Has the rain a father,

or who has begotten the drops of dew?

²⁹From whose womb did the ice come forth,

and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?

³⁰The waters become hard like stone,

and the face of the deep is frozen.

³¹“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,

or loose the cords of Orion?

³²Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,

or can you guide the Bear with its children?

³³Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?

Can you establish their rule on the earth?

³⁴“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,

so that a flood of waters may cover you?

³⁵Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go

and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

³⁶Who has put wisdom in the inward parts,

or given understanding to the mind?

³⁷Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?

Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

³⁸when the dust runs into a mass

and the clods cling together?”

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.