Thursday, April 9

The Morning Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 6 and 9 a.m.

The Call to Prayer

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee,* and kneel before the LORD our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.* Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

Psalm 95:6–7

The Request for Presence

Show us the light of your countenance, O God,* and come to us.

based on Psalm 67:1

The Greeting

To you I lift up my eyes,* to you enthroned in the heavens. As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,* and the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God,* until he shows us his mercy.

Psalm 123:1–3

The Refrain for the Morning Lessons

I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;* I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm 7:18

A Reading

Now it happened that as the time drew near for him to be taken up, he resolutely turned his face towards Jerusalem and sent messengers ahead of him. These set out, and they went into a Samaritan village to make preparations for him, but the people would not receive him because he was making for Jerusalem. Seeing this, the disciples James and John said, ‘Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to burn them up?’ But he turned and rebuked them, and they went on to another village.

Luke 9:51–56

The Refrain

I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;* I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.

The Morning Psalm

The LORD Is a Shield About Me

LORD, how many adversaries I have!* how many there are who rise up against me! How many there are who say of me,* “There is no help for him in his God.” But you, O LORD, are a shield about me;* you are my glory, the one who lifts up my head. I call aloud upon the LORD,* and he answers me from his holy hill; I lie down and go to sleep;* I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.

Psalm 3:1–5

The Refrain

I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;* I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.

The Small Verse

Keep me, Lord, as the apple of your eye and carry me under the shadow of your wings.

Traditional

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

O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of my faith, that I may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. †

The Concluding Prayer of the Church

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. †