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At evensong tonight for the Feast of St. Luke we sang Psalm 67.

I'm not sure why we sang 67, but that doesn't metter much to this story. Actually, it makes this story much less effective. It's just that 67 isn't listed in my prayer book, so I'm just not sure where it came from. It is associated with evensong in the 1928 prayer book in as far as it is an alternate to the Nunc after the second lesson.

Anyway, Psalm 67 is also being sung at my wedding, so for me it was a Lukan Psalm convergence at my last evensong as an unmarried man tonight.

May God be merciful to us and bless us, *
     how us the light of his countenance and come to us.
Let your ways be known upon earth, *
     your saving health among all nations.
Let the peoples praise you, O God; *
     let all the peoples praise you.
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, *
     for you judge the peoples with equity
and guide all the nations upon earth.
     Let the peoples praise you, O God; *
let all the peoples praise you.
     The earth has brought forth her increase; *
may God, our own God, give us his blessing.
     May God give us his blessing, *
and may all the ends of the earth stand in awe of him.

p.s. It's windy outside. It'll be 78º on Sunday.

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