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Sunday, March 8 |
| The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m |
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Saturday, Second Week of Lent |
The Call to Prayer |
| Ascribe to the LORD, you families of the peoples;* ascribe to the LORD honor and power. Ascribe to the LORD the honor due his Name;* bring offerings and come into his courts. Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness;* let the whole earth tremble before him. Tell it out among the nations: “The LORD is King!”* he has made the world so firm that it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.” |
| Psalm 96:7–10 |
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The Request for Presence |
| 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. |
| Psalm 80:1–3 |
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The Greeting |
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| Into your hands I commend my spirit,* for you have redeemed me, O LORD, O God of truth. |
| Psalm 31:5 |
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The Refrain for the Midday Lessons |
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| Let all the earth fear the LORD;* let all who dwell in the world stand in awe of him. |
| Psalm 33:8 |
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A Reading |
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| This alone is my conclusion: God has created man straightforward, and human artifices are human inventions. |
| Ecclesiastes 7:29 |
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The Refrain |
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| Let all the earth fear the LORD;* let all who dwell in the world stand in awe of him. |
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The Midday Psalm |
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Come and Listen |
| Come and listen, all you who fear God,* and I will tell you what he has done for me. I called out to him with my mouth,* and his praise was on my tongue. If I had found evil in my heart,* the Lord would not have heard me; But in truth God has heard me;* he has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer,* nor withheld his love from me. |
| Psalm 66:14–18 |
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The Refrain |
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| Come and listen, all you who fear God,* and I will tell you what he has done for me. I called out to him with my mouth,* and his praise was on my tongue. If I had found evil in my heart,* the Lord would not have heard me; But in truth God has heard me;* he has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer,* nor withheld his love from me. |
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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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| 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. |
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