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Superman & Lois Episode 1 Review (Spoiler Free)

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Hollywood has spent the last three decades trying to reinvent Superman. After the Christopher Reeve franchise fizzled with 1983’s awkward Superman III and 1987’s truly dreadful Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, there seemed to be a prevailing impression that the character was broken, and that audiences just wouldn’t respond to a traditional interpretation of the hero. Hence nearly two decades of development hell as increasingly unrecognizable Superman screenplays failed to get made, 2006’s uneven Superman Returns, and 2013’s moody and violent Man of Steel and its unfortunate sequel.

Even on TV, at least in live action, it seemed like telling a “Superman story” wasn’t enough. 1993’s Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman fancied itself a high concept take on the legend, leaning heavily into newsroom drama (at least in its first season) and romantic comedy. Even the wildly successful Smallville proudly touted a “no tights, no flights” policy as it told its tale of a young Clark Kent who wanted anything other than to be a hero. Which brings us to Superman & Lois, itself something of a “reinvention” of the mythos, the first to depict Lois Lane and Clark Kent as not only parents to twin teenage boys, but back on the farm in Smallville instead of their usual stomping ground of Metropolis.

And yet despite this seeming departure from superhero action to family drama, Superman & Lois is the most reverent, faithful live action take on the mythos since Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder were trading knowingly charged dialogue with each other in the 1980s. There’s barely a moment in the first episode of Superman & Lois that isn’t positively saturated with love for these characters and their history. Here, the inherent earnestness of a nearly all-powerful man who chooses to spend his time helping others and a woman who believes you don’t need powers to save the world (only the truth) isn’t something to be hidden behind faux-philosophy or angst, and instead something to be celebrated. In that respect and several others, it’s the Superman show fans have been waiting for.

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Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch have been playing these roles for a few years now, albeit both in only a handful of guest appearances on Supergirl and various Arrowverse crossover events. Both were immediately embraced for their authentic, heartfelt performances, and their onscreen chemistry is perhaps the best seen in a Lois and Clark since Reeve and Kidder at their best. They’re as perfectly suited to these roles as you could hope for, bringing both a playful energy and the required gravitas. They’re joined by Jordan Elsass as the athletic and outgoing Jonathan Kent and Alexander Garfin as the anxious and introverted Jordan Kent. The boys bring a different energy to the traditional Lois and Clark dynamic, and a convincing chemistry of their own.

The change of setting from Metropolis to Smallville benefits the show in another way, too. Arrowverse fans have gotten accustomed to Central City, Starling City, and National City all looking suspiciously similar. Taking the family out of Metropolis helps in that regard, and keeps the show from falling prey to some of the expected Arrowverse tropes. It’s a more “mature” approach, one that helps distinguish Superman & Lois from some of its its contemporaries. Which isn’t to say the show is overly serious, Hoechlin and Tulloch in particular are delightful, effortlessly alternating between playful banter and parental authority, and Elsass and Garfin bring an authentic brotherly warmth to their roles. The overall tone is closer in balance to other recent DC shows like Stargirl or Krypton than it is say, The Flash or Batwoman, and the look of the series wouldn’t be out of place on HBO Max or, at times, even in a theater.

Despite a healthy dose of family drama storytelling injected into the proceedings (as well as some weightier themes that come with depicting Smallville as a financially struggling farm town), this is still very much a Superman show. The central mystery of the episode—if not the entire season —seems to be a mysterious armored figure who keeps attacking nuclear facilities. When he squares off with the Man of Steel, there’s plenty of superpowered action to be had, and these sequences look as cinematic as anything ever seen on a CW DC show. Hoechlin’s Superman benefits from a redesigned costume that ranks with some of the best live action supersuits in history (you’ll really notice how the red of the cape pops against dark backgrounds), above average special effects, and a 16:9 aspect ratio that helps give the proceedings a cinematic sheen.

Despite some cosmetic and tonal differences, Superman & Lois is indeed still part of the interconnected “Arrowverse” of DC TV shows on The CW. But if you’re worried about whether or not you have to be up on the various continuity bylaws that come from nearly a decade of interconnected TV storytelling across a half dozen shows, fear not. Superman & Lois is completely self-contained in its early episodes, and there’s not even a mention of any other heroes. That time will probably come at some point, but it’s refreshing nonetheless. There’s even a wonderful opening montage that serves as a quick history lesson about Superman, how Lois and Clark met, and much more. It’s a veritable love letter to Superman history in the first few minutes of the show, and it’s all the reminder that fans need that Superman, Lois, and their 80+ year history are in good hands.

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The True Origins Of Pedogate

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In this video, Jason Bermas tells us about the Franklin cover-up and the origins of Pedogate. Its important to know about America’s history and this includes its darker side. Why? If we never learn from history, we’re doomed to repeat it.

Look at the way talk show host Stephen Colbert attacked Pizza Gate and dismissed people who believed it as uninformed and gullible. ABC News, the Washington Post and the New York Times all scrubbed the November 2016 Norway Pedophile bust story. The BBC missed opportunities to stop monstrous abuse by DJ Jimmy Savile in the UK. How can we expect victims to get help if Pedogate isn’t taken seriously?

Now its time to uncover the true origins of Pedogate…

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The Franklin Cover-Up begins with a Republication and a prominent figure in the 1980s. His name was Lawrence E. King Jr. but he was more often referred to as Larry King. King ran the Nebraska Franklin Credit Union and a few other businesses. He chartered private jets, hosted extravagant parties and maintained bodyguards.

The Franklin Credit Union happened to be near ‘Boys Town’, a Catholic institution for orphaned youth. King’s bright yellow sports car was frequently seen on the Boys Town campus. Later King was linked to embezzlement. He’d stolen over 40 million dollars from the Franklin Credit Union and his financial records revealed a close-knit relationship with Boys Town. The credit union failed due to King’s embezzlement.

King’s lavish lifestyle burst into flames in 1988, just before the Republican National Convention, when seven people came forward claiming that they had been victims of King’s child abuse and prostitution. The victims claimed that King took them to various parties that he threw for the Republican elite. At these parties they claimed to have been abused.

Rusty Nelson, the photographer for Larry King, attended these parties, documenting powerful men in compromising positions with minors as a form of blackmail for King. In a court hearing in 1999, Rusty Nelson revealed his close relationship with King. Nelson relayed that he had witnessed King phone President Reagan when other individuals couldn’t resolve a specific problem. In other words, a man with abuse and child prostitution allegations had a direct line to the then President.

One of Kings victims spoke out two years before the Franklin scandal became public. In 1989, 21 year old Paul Bonacci, a convicted child molester, came forward. While serving time in an Omaha, Nebraska prison for molesting a young boy, Bonacci admitted to his psychiatrist he helped abduct Iowa newspaper boy Johnny Gosch. He claimed there was an organized ring of pedophiles in Omaha that abducts children and forces them into a life of pornography and prostitution and in some cases auctions off these children to clients for sex.

Bonacci admitted that at the age of eight he began attending King’s parties and that he was abused during said parties. He claimed that Democratic senator Barney Frank had abused him and he was given midnight tours of the White House, only to be taken to a separate location shortly after and abused.

A judge awarded $1 million to Bonacci for his testimony against King but King never paid. The other victims that spoke out against King were awarded only doubt and contempt for naming their abuser. A list of 271 victims of King’s abuse were compiled, all of whom recalled the same story. They said they were taken to parties and abused by prominent figures.

The New York Times revealed that both federal and state investigators were given thousands of files from abused children and their testimonies. Instead of bringing those victims justice, Douglas County and federal grand juries ordered the files to be sealed, neglected to interview witnesses and even filed charges of perjury. Both grand juries agreed that the two victims who spoke out were abused but deduced that the adults they testified against were innocent. Instead of getting these victims the help they so desperately needed, the state appointed attorney only mocked the allegations. Some of the victims were thrown in jail and discredited by local media.

King was never called to testify. Evidence shown to the grand jury had been tampered with. Victims were targeted as a result of their testimonies. After giving his testimony one victim was found in a hospital room dead. There was evidence he was drugged and beaten prior to his death.

The FBI shut down the investigation and two sham grand juries attacked the accusers. Several witnesses and an investigator were murdered or died mysteriously. Former CIA Director Bill Colby went on record stating the case had merit before dying in a “canoe accident”. In total there was 15 suspicious deaths surrounding the Franklin cover-up.

In 1993 a documentary detailing the Franklin cover-up called ‘The Conspiracy Of Silence’ was produced by the Discovery Channel. On the day it was set to be aired, it was cancelled. There were rumours that someone paid half a million dollars to revoke the television rights. The documentary can now be found online.

So why is it important to learn from history now? If we don’t, we’re doomed to letting history repeat itself and permitting people in power to continue to get away with crimes. Especially when we don’t even launch an investigation to uncover the truth.

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Expert: The expansion of public relations and propaganda (PRP) firms inside news systems in the world today has resulted in a deliberate form of news management. Maintenance of continuous news shows requires a constant and ever-entertaining supply of stimulating events and breaking news bites. Corporate media are increasingly dependent on various government agencies and PRP firms as sources of news. The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms—Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group—together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media. In The Practice of Public Relations, Fraser P. Seitel defined public relations as “helping an organization and its public adapt mutually to each other.” Propaganda can be defined as the dissemination of ideas and information for the purpose of inducing or intensifying specific attitudes and actions. Both PR and propaganda seek to change behaviors and ideas among the masses in support of the agendas of public and private institutions.1 As Douglas Kellner and other researchers have documented, since 9/11 public relations firms have contributed to increased levels of media propaganda. Consider the Rendon Group, one of the key PR firms supporting US propaganda efforts during recent wars. In the 1980s, it produced public relations propaganda for the ousting of Panama’s president, Manuel Noriega. The Rendon Group also shaped international support for the first Gulf War, and in the 1990s created the Iraqi National Congress. The Rendon Group provided the images that mobilized public support for a permanent war on terror, including the fake news stories of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad, the heroic rescue of US Army private Jessica Lynch, and dramatic tales of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. As James Bamford reported in a 2005 article in Rolling Stone, Pentagon documents show thirty-five contracts with Rendon from 2000-2004, worth a total of between $50-100 million dollars. PRP firms have emerged as orchestrators of global information and news. The world today faces a military-industrial-media empire, bolstered by PRP firms, that is so powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported only in disconnected segments with little historical context. In late 1999, Ben Bagdikian, the author of Media Monopoly and former Washington Post editor, told me that he estimated that two-thirds of all news stories originated with PR firms; in 2003, an article from the Guardian conservatively estimated that 50-80% of news and business stories originated from public relations firms. The result is managed news by governments, corporations, and PRP firms—often interlocked—including both the release of specific stories intended to build public support as well as the deliberate non-coverage of news stories that may undermine capitalist elites’ goals and interests. PRP firms provide a variety of services to major corporations and institutions around the world. Brand enhancement and sales are undoubtedly among their key services. However, companies offer much more, including research and crisis management for corporations and governments, public information campaigns, web design and promotions, and corporate media placement. WPP’s Hill & Knowton proudly brags on its website that they service 50% of the Fortune Global 500 companies from their offices in forty countries. Along with Omnicom’s Fleishman and Hillard, Hill & Knowlton have been the key PRP firms working with Monsanto to protect its brand Roundup, which contains the herbicide glyphosate. Roundup is the most widely-used herbicide in the world, being sold in over 130 countries, but the World Health Organization recently declared glyphosate a human carcinogen. As countries begin to restrict its use, PRP firms gear up to protect Monsanto’s profits. WPP’s Hill & Knowton is also well known for its early involvement with the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR), originally established in 1954 to counter the 1952 Reader’s Digest report linking cancer to tobacco smoking. In 1993, the Wall Street Journal described CTR as the “longest-running misinformation campaigns in U.S. business history”.2 It was WPP’s Burson-Marsteller who created the frontgroup Global Climate Coalition (GCC). From 1989-2001, the GCC helped the oil and auto industries downplay the dangers of global warming. Initial members of the coalition included Amoco, American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, Chrysler, Exxon, Ford, GM, Shell, and Texaco. In addition from 2007-2015 the US federal government spent over $4 billion dollars for PRP services. The US employs 3,092 public relations officers in 139 agencies. An additional $2.2 billion goes to outside firms to perform PRP, polling, research, and market consulting. The world’s top PRP firms reaped millions of US dollars in 2014 including Laughlin, Marinaccio & Owens ($87.98M), WPP-Young & Rubicam Inc. ($57.5M), WPP-Ogilvy Public Relations ($47.93M), Omnicon-FleishmanHillard ($42.4M), and Gallup ($42.0M). WPP’s Burson-Marsteller won a $4.6 million contract with the US Department of Homeland Security in 2005 to develop public awareness and education for a major emergency, disaster, or terrorist attack in Washington DC. Before the first Gulf War, a fake news propaganda spectacle took place courtesy of WPP’s Hill & Knowlton. They were hired by Citizens for a Free Kuwait and eventually received nearly $10.8 million to conduct one of the most effective public relations campaigns in history. Hill & Knowlton helped create a national outrage against Iraq by publicizing the horrifying events supposedly caused by Iraqi soldiers during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. In testimony to the House of Representative’s Human Rights Caucus, a young woman named Nayirah said that she saw “Iraqi soldiers come into the [Kuwaiti] hospital with guns, and go into the room where 15 babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die.” What the public was not told was that Nayirah was the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the US, and that her performance was coordinated by the White House and choreographed by the US public relations firm Hill & Knowlton on behalf of the Kuwaiti government. As Johan Carlisle reported, former CIA official Robert T. Crowley, who served as a liaison between the agency and PR firms, acknowledged that “Hill & Knowlton’s overseas offices…were perfect ‘cover’ for the ever-expanding CIA. Unlike other cover jobs, being a public relations specialist did not require technical training for CIA officers.” Furthermore, Crowley admitted, the CIA used its Hill & Knowlton connections to “put out press releases and make media contacts to further its positions… Hill & Knowlton employees at the small Washington office and elsewhere distributed this material through CIA assets working in the United States news media.” A global war on terrorism requires continuous ideological justification, aimed at the mass of people who instinctively favor peace. PRP firms provide an on-going rationalization for war by servicing government propaganda activities, military contractors, pro-war Hollywood films, and the marketing of war toys, cartoons and related products. The techniques for marketing brands are essentially the same as for marketing war. PRP firms produce creative, visually-stimulating, emotional ads that spotlight families with loving children in danger of others, protected by official authorities, including homeland security, police or military personnel: “To get to you…they’d have to get past us,” touted the narrator of “America’s Navy—the Shield,” produced by the advertising firm Campbell Ewald, which first aired on CBS during the 2014 Army-Navy football game. In May 2015, the Navy Times reported that the Navy had awarded its Recruiting Command contract—“initially valued at $84.4 million for a one-year fixed-price”—to New York-based Young & Rubicam. The big three global PRP firms are key contributors to the global hegemony of capitalism. PRP firms and their corporate media partners aid corporations, governments, and non-governmental organizations in an unrelenting ideological assault on, and pacification of, the minds of the masses around the world. The overall message is the continued acquisition of material products and consumption, expanded desire for a life of luxury, fear of others—including terrorists, criminals, and threatening peoples—the support of police states, acceptance of a permanent war on terrorism, and the equation of private corporations with democratic governance. This is what Noam Chomsky called engineering opinion and parading enemies.3 The PRP industry is highly concentrated and fully global. With $35 billion in annual revenue, the big three PRP firms are key components of the transnational capitalist class. The PRP industry’s primary goal is the promotion of capital growth through hegomonic psychological control of human desires, emotions, beliefs, and values. PRP firms do this by manipulating the thoughts and feelings of human beings worldwide. In many ways PRP firms are the ideological engine of capitalism, due to both their massive influence in world corporate media and their increasing embedded role in the propaganda of national governments, including psychological operations in support of a permanent war on terror. Perhaps democracy movements can offer us some hope for the future. Consciousness of the dark side of PRP and its unrestricted power to warp minds is an important first step. Among some recent positive steps taken by activists to limit the power of PRP, Quebec has become one of the first regions to ban commercial advertising targeting children under the age of 13. For that matter, three generations of people in Cuba have grown up without product advertising in their lives. A group of graduate students from the Univeristy of Havana simply laughed when I asked them five years ago if they ever wanted a “Happy Meal.” It seemed absurd to them to even consider the idea. We too need to understand the absurdity of the PRP industry, and to move to eliminate its influence from our lives, our cultures, and our world. • Sonoma State University students Ratonya Coffee, Nicole Tranchina, Robert Ramirez, and Mary Schafer provided research support. NOTE: This article is based on more in-depth research, originally published as “Selling Empire, War, and Capitalism: Public Relations Propaganda Firms in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class,” pp. 285-315 in Censored 2017: Fortieth Anniversary Edition, edited by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2016). The full report is available on Project Censored’s website. * For an early history of state propaganda, see Jacuie L’Etang, “State Propaganda and Bureaucratic Intelligence: The Creation of the Public Relations in 20th Century Britain,” Public Relations Review 24, no. 4 (1998): 413-41. * A.M. Freedman and L.P. Cohen, “Smoke and Mirrors: How Cigarette Makers Keep Health Questions ‘Open’ Year after Year,” Wall Street Journal, February 11, 1993. * Media Control, Seven Stories Press, 2002. http://clubof.info/

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Daily Office Readings August 15, 2020

Psalm 113

God the Helper of the Needy

1 Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord; praise the name of the Lord.

2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time on and forevermore. 3 From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised. 4 The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, 6 who looks far down on the heavens and the earth? 7 He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap, 8 to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people. 9 He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

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Psalm 115

The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God

1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness. 2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

3 Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. 6 They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. 7 They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; they make no sound in their throats. 8 Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

9 O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield. 11 You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.

12 The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron; 13 he will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great.

14 May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children. 15 May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

16 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings. 17 The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go down into silence. 18 But we will bless the Lord from this time on and forevermore. Praise the Lord!

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1 Samuel 2:1-10

Hannah’s Prayer

2 Hannah prayed and said,

“My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God.[a] My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in my[b] victory.

2 “There is no Holy One like the Lord, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. 3 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength. 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are fat with spoil. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. 6 The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. 7 The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts. 8 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor.[c] For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.

9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might does one prevail. 10 The Lord! His adversaries shall be shattered; the Most High[d] will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed.”

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 2:1 Gk: Heb the Lord

1 Samuel 2:1 Q Ms: MT your

1 Samuel 2:8 Gk (Compare Q Ms) adds He grants the vow of the one who vows, and blesses the years of the just

1 Samuel 2:10 Cn Heb against him he

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John 2:1-12

The Wedding at Cana

2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6 Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. 9 When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there a few days.

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Psalm 45

Ode for a Royal Wedding

To the leader: according to Lilies. Of the Korahites. A Maskil. A love song.

1 My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

2 You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. 3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty.

4 In your majesty ride on victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend[a] the right; let your right hand teach you dread deeds. 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

6 Your throne, O God,[b] endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity; 7 you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; 8 your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; 9 daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

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[c] of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts, the richest of the people 13 with all kinds of wealth.

The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;[d] 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.

16 In the place of ancestors you, O king,[e] shall have sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. 17 I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations; therefore the peoples will praise you forever and ever.

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Psalm 45:4 Cn: Heb and the meekness of

Psalm 45:6 Or Your throne is a throne of God, it

Psalm 45:12 Heb daughter

Psalm 45:13 Or people. 13 All glorious is the princess within, gold embroidery is her clothing

Psalm 45:16 Heb lacks O king

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Psalm 138

Thanksgiving and Praise

Of David.

1 I give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; 2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness; for you have exalted your name and your word above everything.[a] 3 On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul.[b]

4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O Lord, for they have heard the words of your mouth. 5 They shall sing of the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord. 6 For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he perceives from far away.

7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me against the wrath of my enemies; you stretch out your hand, and your right hand delivers me. 8 The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Footnotes:

Psalm 138:2 Cn: Heb you have exalted your word above all your name

Psalm 138:3 Syr Compare Gk Tg: Heb you made me arrogant in my soul with strength

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Psalm 149

Praise for God’s Goodness to Israel

1 Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful. 2 Let Israel be glad in its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. 3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre. 4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory. 5 Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their couches. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands, 7 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with fetters and their nobles with chains of iron, 9 to execute on them the judgment decreed. This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!

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John 19:23-27

23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says,

“They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

25 And that is what the soldiers did.

Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

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Daily Office Readings August 15, 2019

Psalm 113

God the Helper of the Needy

1 Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord; praise the name of the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

Psalm 115

The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God

1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness. 2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

12 The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron; 13 he will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great.

14 May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children. 15 May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

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1 Samuel 2:1-10

Hannah’s Prayer

2 Hannah prayed and said,

“My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God.[a] My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in my[b] victory.

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 2:1 Gk: Heb the Lord

1 Samuel 2:1 Q Ms: MT your

1 Samuel 2:8 Gk (Compare Q Ms) adds He grants the vow of the one who vows, and blesses the years of the just

1 Samuel 2:10 Cn Heb against him he

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John 2:1-12

The Wedding at Cana

12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there a few days.

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Psalm 45

Ode for a Royal Wedding

To the leader: according to Lilies. Of the Korahites. A Maskil. A love song.

1 My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

2 You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. 3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty.

Footnotes:

Psalm 45:4 Cn: Heb and the meekness of

Psalm 45:6 Or Your throne is a throne of God, it

Psalm 45:12 Heb daughter

Psalm 45:13 Or people. 13 All glorious is the princess within, gold embroidery is her clothing

Psalm 45:16 Heb lacks O king

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Psalm 138

Thanksgiving and Praise

Of David.

Footnotes:

Psalm 138:2 Cn: Heb you have exalted your word above all your name

Psalm 138:3 Syr Compare Gk Tg: Heb you made me arrogant in my soul with strength

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Psalm 149

Praise for God’s Goodness to Israel

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John 19:23-27

“They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

25 And that is what the soldiers did.

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#August 15 #2019

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Daily Office Readings August 15, 2017

Psalm 113

God the Helper of the Needy

1 Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord; praise the name of the Lord.

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Psalm 115

The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God

1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness. 2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

12 The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron; 13 he will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great.

14 May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children. 15 May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

1 Samuel 2:1-10

Hannah’s Prayer

2 Hannah prayed and said,

“My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God.[a] My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in my[b] victory.

Footnotes:

1 Samuel 2:1 Gk: Heb the Lord

1 Samuel 2:1 Q Ms: MT your

1 Samuel 2:8 Gk (Compare Q Ms) adds He grants the vow of the one who vows, and blesses the years of the just

1 Samuel 2:10 Cn Heb against him he

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

John 2:1-12

The Wedding at Cana

12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there a few days.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

Psalm 45

Ode for a Royal Wedding

To the leader: according to Lilies. Of the Korahites. A Maskil. A love song.

1 My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

2 You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. 3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty.

Footnotes:

Psalm 45:4 Cn: Heb and the meekness of

Psalm 45:6 Or Your throne is a throne of God, it

Psalm 45:12 Heb daughter

Psalm 45:13 Or people. 13 All glorious is the princess within, gold embroidery is her clothing

Psalm 45:16 Heb lacks O king

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

Psalm 138

Thanksgiving and Praise

Of David.

Footnotes:

Psalm 138:2 Cn: Heb you have exalted your word above all your name

Psalm 138:3 Syr Compare Gk Tg: Heb you made me arrogant in my soul with strength

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

Psalm 149

Praise for God’s Goodness to Israel

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

John 19:23-27

“They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

25 And that is what the soldiers did.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

#August 15 #2017

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