1st Scripture Reading – Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn us back to dust
and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
4 For a thousand years in your sight
are like yesterday when it is past
or like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;
6
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.
13 Turn, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us
and as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let your work be manifest to your servants
and your glorious power to their children.
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us
and prosper for us the work of our hands—
O prosper the work of our hands!
2nd Scripture Reading – Matthew 22:34-40
The Greatest Commandment
34When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
35 and
one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which
commandment in the law is the greatest?”
37 He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the greatest and first
commandment. 39And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 On these
two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”