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Saturday, March 21 |
| The Morning Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 6 and 9 a.m. |
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Thursday, Fourth Week of Lent |
The Call to Prayer |
| Wake up, my spirit; awake lute and harp;* I myself will waken the dawn. |
| Psalm 57:8 |
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The Request for Presence |
| O God of hosts,* show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved. |
| Psalm 80:7 |
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The Greeting |
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| My lips will sing with joy when I play to you,* and so will my soul, which you have redeemed. |
| Psalm 71:23 |
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The Refrain for the Morning Lessons |
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| Send forth your strength, O God;* establish, O God, what you have wrought for us. |
| Psalm 68:28 |
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A Reading |
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| He said to his disciples, ‘A time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man and will not see it. They will say to you, “Look, it is there!” or, “Look, it is here!” Make no move; do not set off in pursuit; for as the lightning flashing from one part of heaven lights up the other, so will be the Son of man when his Day comes. But first he is destined to suffer grievously and be rejected by this generation.’ |
| Luke 17:22–25 |
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The Refrain |
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| Send forth your strength, O God;* establish, O God, what you have wrought for us. |
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The Morning Psalm |
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What Are We That You Should Care for Us |
| O LORD, what are we that you should care for us?* mere mortals that you should think of us? We are like a puff of wind;* our days are like a passing shadow. Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down;* touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Hurl the lightning and scatter them;* shoot out your arrows and rout them. Stretch out your hand from on high;* rescue me and deliver me from the great waters, from the hand of foreign peoples, Whose mouths speak deceitfully* and whose right hand is raised in falsehood. |
| Psalm 144:3–8 |
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The Refrain |
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| Send forth your strength, O God;* establish, O God, what you have wrought for us. |
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The Cry of the Church |
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| In the evening, in the morning, and at noonday, I will complain and lament,* and he will hear my voice. |
| Psalm 55:18 |
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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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