Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse

O God, our Creator and Redeemer, mercifully hear our prayers and as we celebrate your daughter Lucy. And remembering the light of faith You bestowed upon her, we ask that you would increase and preserve this same light also in our souls, that we may be able to avoid evil, to do good, and abhor nothing so much as the blindness and the darkness of evil and of sin.

10 Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear;
forget your people and your father’s house,
11 and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him;
12 the people* of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,
the richest of the people 13with all kinds of wealth.
The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;*
14 in many-colored robes she is led to the king;
behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.
15 With joy and gladness they are led along
as they enter the palace of the king.
Psalm 45 - New Revised Standard Version

Readings for today from the Daily Lectionary
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Isaiah 8:16-9:1 - 2 Peter 1:1-11 - Luke 22:39-53