Tuesday, March 19
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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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Tuesday, Fourth Week of Lent
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The Call to Prayer
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Clap your hands, all you peoples;* shout to God with a cry of joy.
For the LORD Most High is to be feared;* he is the great King over all the earth.
He subdues the peoples under us,* and the nations under our feet.
He chooses our inheritance for us,* the pride of Jacob whom he loves. |
Psalm 47:1–4
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The Request for Presence
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Early in the morning I cry out to you,* for in your word is my trust. |
Psalm 119:147
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The Greeting
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Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your Name give glory;* because of your love
and because of your faithfulness. |
Psalm 115:1
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The Refrain for the Morning Lessons
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Those who are planted in the house of the LORD* shall flourish in the courts of
our God. |
Psalm 92:12
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A Reading
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Then some Sadduces—who deny the Resurrection—came to him . . . Jesus said to
them, ‘Surely the reason why you are wrong is that you understand neither the
scriptures nor the power of God. Now about the dead rising again, have you
ever read the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to
him and said: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is
God, not of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken.’ |
Mark 12:18a, 24, 26–27
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The Refrain
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Those who are planted in the house of the LORD* shall flourish in the courts of our
God. |
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The Morning Psalm
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We Flourish Like a Flower of the Field
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Our days are like the grass;* we flourish like a flower of the field;
When the wind goes over it, it is gone,* and its place shall know it no more.
But the merciful goodness of the LORD endures for ever on those who fear him,*
and his righteousness on children’s children;
On those who keep his covenant* and remember his commandments and
do them. |
Psalm 103:15–18
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The Refrain
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Those who are planted in the house of the LORD* shall flourish in the courts of our
God. |
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The Short Verse
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‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is, who was, and who is
to come, the Almighty.’ |
Revelation 1:8
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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 God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon
the holy mountain: Grant that I, beholding by faith the light of his countenance,
may be strengthened to bear my cross, and be changed into his likeness
from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives and reigns with
you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and 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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