Sunday, April 26

The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m

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.

Psalm 96:7–9

The Request for Presence

For God alone my soul in silence waits;* truly, my hope is in him.

Psalm 62:6

The Greeting

Happy are the people whose strength is in you!* whose hearts are set on the pilgrims’ way.

Psalm 84:4

The Refrain for the Midday Lessons

My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices;* my body also shall rest in hope.

Psalm 16:9

A Reading

The spirit is poured out on us from above, and the desert becomes productive ground, so productive you might take it for a forest. Fair judgement will fix its home in the desert, and uprightness live in the productive ground, and the product of uprightness will be peace, the effect of uprightness being quiet and security for ever. My people will live in a peaceful home, in peaceful houses, tranquil dwellings. And should the forest be totally destroyed and the city gravely humiliated, you will be happy to sow wherever there is water and to let the ox and the donkey roam free.

Isaiah 32:15–20

The Refrain

My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices;* my body also shall rest in hope.

The Midday Psalm

The LORD of Hosts Is with Us

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,* the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be overthrown;* God shall help her at the break of day. The nations make much ado, and the kingdoms are shaken;* God has spoken, and the earth shall melt away. The LORD of hosts is with us;* the God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Psalm 46:5–8

The Refrain

My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices;* my body also shall rest in hope.

The Small Verse

‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’ says the Lord God, ‘who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.’

Revelation 1:8

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, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that I, who have been raised with him, may abide in his presence and rejoice in the hope of eternal glory; through Jesus Christ my Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be dominion and praise for ever and ever. Amen. †

The Concluding Prayer of the Church

O God, the source of eternal light: Shed forth your unending day upon all of us who watch for you, that our lips may praise you, our lives may bless you, and our worship may give you glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. †