John Henry Hobart, Bishop, 1830

The Collect:

Rite I:
Revive thy Church, Lord God of hosts, whenever it falls into complacency and sloth, by raising up devoted leaders like thy servant John Henry Hobart; and grant that their faith and vigor of mind may awaken thy people to thy message and their mission; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Rite II:
Revive your Church, Lord God of hosts, whenever it falls into complacency and sloth, by raising up devoted leaders like your servant John Henry Hobart; and grant that their faith and vigor of mind may awaken your people to your message and their mission; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

First Lesson: Job 38:1, 22-30 

¹ Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

²² ‘Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
    or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
²³ which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
    for the day of battle and war?
²⁴ What 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,
²⁶ to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
    on the desert, which is empty of human life,
²⁷ to 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?
²⁹ From whose womb did the ice come forth,
    and who has given birth to the hoar-frost of heaven?
³⁰ The waters become hard like stone,
    and the face of the deep is frozen.

Psalm: Psalm 92:1-7 

¹ It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, *
and to sing praises to your Name, O Most High;
² To tell of your loving-kindness early in the morning *
and of your faithfulness in the night season;
³ On the psaltery, and on the lyre, *
and to the melody of the harp.
⁴ For you have made me glad by your acts, O Lord; *
and I shout for joy because of the works of your hands.
⁵ Lord, how great are your works! *
your thoughts are very deep.
⁶ The dullard does not know,
nor does the fool understand, *
that though the wicked grow like weeds,
and all the workers of iniquity flourish,
⁷ They flourish only to be destroyed for ever; *
but you, O Lord, are exalted for evermore.

Second Lesson: Titus 1:7–9

⁷ For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain; ⁸ but he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, prudent, upright, devout, and self-controlled. ⁹ He must have a firm grasp of the word that is trustworthy in accordance with the teaching, so that he may be able both to preach with sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict it.

Gospel: Mark 8:1–13

¹In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, ²‘I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. ³If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great distance.’ ⁴His disciples replied, ‘How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?’ ⁵He asked them, ‘How many loaves do you have?’ They said, ‘Seven.’ ⁶Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they distributed them to the crowd. ⁷They had also a few small fish; and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be distributed. ⁸They ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. ⁹Now there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. ¹⁰And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

¹¹The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him. ¹²And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, ‘Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.’ ¹³And he left them, and getting into the boat again, he went across to the other side.

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