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Wednesday, April 1 |
| The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m |
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Tuesday of Holy Week |
The Call to Prayer |
| I will call upon God,* and the LORD will deliver me. In the evening, in the morning, and at the noonday, I will complain and lament,* and he will hear my voice. He will bring me safely back* . . . God, who is enthroned of old, will hear me. |
| Psalm 55:17ff |
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The Request for Presence |
| I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost;* search for your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. |
| Psalm 119:176 |
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The Greeting |
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| When your word goes forth it gives light;* it gives understanding to the simple. |
| Psalm 119:130 |
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The Refrain for the Midday Lessons |
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| He will not let your foot be moved* and he who watches over you will not fall asleep. |
| Psalm 121:3 |
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A Reading |
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| We had all gone astray like sheep, each taking his own way, and YAHWEH brought the acts of rebellion of all of us to bear on him. Ill-treated and afflicted, he never opened his mouth, like a lamb led to the slaughter-house, like a sheep dumb before its shearers he never opened his mouth. |
| Isaiah 53:6–7 |
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The Refrain |
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| He will not let your foot be moved* and he who watches over you will not fall asleep. |
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The Midday Psalm |
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The LORD Will Not Abandon His People |
| How long shall the wicked, O LORD,* how long shall the wicked triumph? They bluster in their insolence;* all evildoers are full of boasting. They crush your people, O LORD,* and afflict your chosen nation. They murder the widow and the stranger* and put the orphans to death. Yet they say, “The LORD does not see,* the God of Jacob takes no notice.” Consider well, you dullards among the people;* when will you fools understand? He that planted the ear, does he not hear?* he that formed the eye, does he not see? He who admonishes the nations, will he not punish?* he who teaches all the world, has he no knowledge? The LORD knows our human thoughts;* how like a puff of wind they are. Happy are they whom you instruct, O Lord!* whom you teach out of your law; To give them rest in evil days,* until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the LORD will not abandon his people,* nor will he forsake his own. For judgment will again be just,* and all the true of heart will follow it. |
| Psalm 94:3–15 |
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The Refrain |
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| He will not let your foot be moved* and he who watches over you will not fall asleep. |
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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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| Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that I, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, 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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| O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant me so to glory in the cross of Christ, that I may gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. † |
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