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Sunday, April 5 |
| The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. |
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Holy Saturday |
The Call to Prayer |
| My merciful God comes to meet me;* God will let me look in triumph on my enemies. |
| Psalm 59:11 |
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The Request for Presence |
| O LORD, give victory to the king* and answer us when we call. |
| Psalm 20:9 |
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The Greeting |
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| LORD, hear my prayer, and in your faithfulness heed my supplications;* answer me in your righteousness. |
| Psalm 143:1 |
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The Refrain for the Midday Lessons |
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| Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,* from age to age. Amen. Amen. |
| Psalm 41:13 |
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A Reading |
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| There is always hope for a tree: when felled, it can start its life again; its shoots continue to sprout. Its roots may have grown old in the earth, its stump rotting in the ground, but let it scent the water and it buds, and puts out branches like a plant newly set. But a human being? He dies, and dead he remains, breathes his last, and then where is he? The waters of the sea will vanish, the rivers stop flowing and run dry: a human being, once laid to rest, will never rise again, the heavens will wear out before he wakes up, or before he is roused from his sleep. Will no one hide me in Sheol, and shelter me there till your anger is past, fixing a certain day for calling me to mind—can the dead come back to life?— day after day of my service, I should be waiting for my relief to come. Then you would call, and I should answer, you would want to see once more what you have made. Whereas now you count every step I take, you would then stop spying on my sin; you would seal up my crime in a bag, and put a cover over my fault. Alas! Just as, eventually, the mountain falls down, the rock moves from its place, water wears away the stones, the cloudburst erodes the soil; so you destroy whatever hope a person has. You crush him once and for all, and he is gone; first you disfigure him, then you dismiss him. His children may rise to honors—he does not know it; they may come down in the world— he does not care. He feels no pangs, except for his own body, makes no lament, except for his own self. |
| Job 14:7–22 |
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The Refrain |
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| Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,* from age to age. Amen. Amen. |
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The Midday Psalm |
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Out of the Depths Have I Called to You |
| Out of the depths have I called to you, O LORD; LORD, hear my voice;* let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication. If you, LORD, were to note what is done amiss,* O Lord, who could stand? For there is forgiveness with you;* therefore you shall be feared. I wait for the LORD; my soul waits for him;* in his word is my hope. My soul waits for the LORD, more than watchmen for the morning,* more than watchmen for the morning. O Israel, wait for the LORD,* for with the LORD there is mercy; With him there is plenteous redemption,* and he shall redeem Israel from all their sins. |
| Psalm 130 |
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The Refrain |
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| Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,* from age to age. Amen. Amen. |
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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, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so I may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. † |
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