Friday, March 7
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The Morning Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour
Between 6 and 9 a.m.
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Thursday, Second Week of Lent
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The Call to Prayer
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Let us bless the LORD* from this time forth for evermore. |
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adapted from Psalm 115:18
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The Request for Presence
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Turn to me and have mercy upon me;* . . . and save the child of your handmaid. |
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Psalm 86:16
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The Greeting
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You are my hiding-place . . . * you surround me with shouts of deliverance. |
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Psalm 32:8
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The Refrain for the Morning Lessons
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Behold, God is my helper;* it is the Lord who sustains my life. |
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Psalm 54:4
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A Reading
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In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him. What has come into being
in him was life, life that was the light of men; and light shines in the darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it. |
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John 1:1–5
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The Refrain
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Behold, God is my helper;* it is the Lord who sustains my life. |
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The Morning Psalm
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Show the Light of Your Countenance, and We Shall Be Saved
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Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock;* shine forth, you that are
enthroned upon the cherubim.
In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,* stir up your strength and
come to help us.
Restore us, O God of hosts;* show the light of your countenance, and we shall be
saved. |
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Psalm 80:1–3
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The Refrain
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Behold, God is my helper;* it is the Lord who sustains my life. |
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The Gloria
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Glory be to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. As it was
in the beginning, so it is now and so it shall ever be, world without end.
Alleluia. Amen. |
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The Lord’s Prayer
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your Name.
May your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
for yours are the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen. |
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The Prayer Appointed for the Week
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O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing:
Send your Holy Spirit and pour into my heart your greatest gift, which is love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is
accounted dead before you. Grant this for the sake of your only Son Jesus
Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and
for ever. Amen. † |
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The Concluding Prayer of the Church
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Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this
new day: Preserve me with your mighty power, that I may not fall into sin, nor
be overcome by adversity; and in all I do direct me to the fulfilling of your purpose;
through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen. † |
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