Sunday, March 15

The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m

Saturday, Third Week of Lent

The Call to Prayer

How good it is to sing praises to our God!* how pleasant it is to honor him with praise!

Psalm 147:1

The Request for Presence

Remember me, O LORD, with the favor you have for your people,* and visit me with your saving help; That I may see the prosperity of your elect and be glad with the gladness of your people,* that I may glory with your inheritance.

Psalm 106:4–5

The Greeting

In you, O LORD, have I taken refuge;* let me never be ashamed.

Psalm 71:1

The Refrain for the Midday Lessons

Your statutes have been like songs to me* wherever I have lived like a stranger.

Psalm 119:54

A Reading

I am coming to put you on trial and I shall be a ready witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, and against those who oppress the wage-earner, the widow and the orphan, and who rob the foreigner of his rights and do not respect me, says Yahweh Sabaoth.

Malachi 3:5

The Refrain

Your statutes have been like songs to me* wherever I have lived like a stranger.

The Midday Psalm

The Lord loveth His foundation upon the holy mountains,* the gates of Sion more than all the tents of Jacob. Glorious things are said of thee,* O city of God! I will number Rahab and Babylon* among those avowing Me; Behold the Philistines and Tyre and the people of Ethiopia* are gathered there. Shall it not be said on Sion: “This man and that is born therein,* and the Most High Himself hath founded her?” In His book the Lord recordeth nations and princes* who hail from there. This is the joyous cry of all: “My dwelling is in thee!”

Psalm 86, THE SHORT BREVIARY

The Refrain

Your statutes have been like songs to me* wherever I have lived like a stranger.

The Cry of the Church

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.

The Lord’s Prayer

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.

The Prayer Appointed for the Week

Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on you who cares for us: Preserve me from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from me the light of that love which is immortal, and which you have manifested to us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. †

The Concluding Prayer of the Church

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that I, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly prepared for the service of public worship, and grant as well that my Sabbath upon earth may be a preparation for the eternal rest promised to your people in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. †