Lent
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgivenesses, because we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following his laws which he set before us. Daniel 9:9, 10

Confession of Sin

Most merciful God,
I confess that I have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what I have done, and by what I have left undone. I have not loved you with my whole heart; I have not loved my neighbors as myself. I am truly sorry and I humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on me and forgive me; that I may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

The Absolution
Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen

The Invitatory and Psalter

O God make speed to save us, O Lord make haste to help us

O Gracious Light,
pure brightness of everliving Father in heaven
O Jesus Christ holy and blessed!
Now as we come to the setting of the sun
and our eyes behold the vesper light
we sing your praises O God: Father Son and Holy Spirit.
You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices
O Son of God, O Giver of Life
and to be glorified through all worlds.
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy: Come let us adore him.

?The Psalms are unique for the evening, the other lessions can be read in total or those you have not included in Morning Prayer

The Lessons

Psalm 89

⁽¹⁹⁾ Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: 'I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted a young man from among the people. ⁽²⁰⁾ I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him. ⁽²¹⁾ My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him. ⁽²²⁾ No enemy will subject him to tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

⁽²³⁾ I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries. ⁽²⁴⁾ My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted. ⁽²⁵⁾ I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. ⁽²⁶⁾ He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.'

⁽²⁷⁾ I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth. ⁽²⁸⁾ I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail. ⁽²⁹⁾ I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure. ⁽³⁰⁾ If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,

⁽³¹⁾ if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands, ⁽³²⁾ I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging; ⁽³³⁾ but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness. ⁽³⁴⁾ I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

⁽³⁵⁾ Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness-- and I will not lie to David-- ⁽³⁶⁾ that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun; ⁽³⁷⁾ it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.' Selah ⁽³⁸⁾ But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.

⁽³⁹⁾ You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust. ⁽⁴⁰⁾ You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins. ⁽⁴¹⁾ All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors. ⁽⁴²⁾ You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁽⁴³⁾ You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle. ⁽⁴⁴⁾ You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground. ⁽⁴⁵⁾ You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame. Selah ⁽⁴⁶⁾ How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁽⁴⁷⁾ Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all men! ⁽⁴⁸⁾ What man can live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave? Selah ⁽⁴⁹⁾ O Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David? ⁽⁵⁰⁾ Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

⁽⁵¹⁾ the taunts with which your enemies have mocked, O LORD, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one. ⁽⁵²⁾ Praise be to the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Jeremiah Chapter 16

⁽¹⁰⁾ When you tell these people all this and they ask you, 'Why has the LORD decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the LORD our God?' ⁽¹¹⁾ then say to them, 'It is because your fathers forsook me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law. ⁽¹²⁾ But you have behaved more wickedly than your fathers. See how each of you is following the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying me. ⁽¹³⁾ So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'

⁽¹⁴⁾ However, the days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when men will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,' ⁽¹⁵⁾ but they will say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.' For I will restore them to the land I gave their forefathers. ⁽¹⁶⁾ But now I will send for many fishermen,' declares the LORD, 'and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks. ⁽¹⁷⁾ My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.

⁽¹⁸⁾ I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.' ⁽¹⁹⁾ O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, 'Our fathers possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good. ⁽²⁰⁾ Do men make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!' ⁽²¹⁾ Therefore I will teach them-- this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Romans Chapter 7

⁽¹⁾ Do you not know, brothers-- for I am speaking to men who know the law-- that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? ⁽²⁾ For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. ⁽³⁾ So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man. ⁽⁴⁾ So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

⁽⁵⁾ For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁽⁶⁾ But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. ⁽⁷⁾ What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'Do not covet.' ⁽⁸⁾ But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.

⁽⁹⁾ Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. ⁽¹⁰⁾ I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. ⁽¹¹⁾ For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. ⁽¹²⁾ So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

John Chapter 6

⁽¹⁾ Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), ⁽²⁾ and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. ⁽³⁾ Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. ⁽⁴⁾ The Jewish Passover Feast was near.

⁽⁵⁾ When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, 'Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?' ⁽⁶⁾ He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. ⁽⁷⁾ Philip answered him, 'Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!' ⁽⁸⁾ Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up,

⁽⁹⁾ Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?' ⁽¹⁰⁾ Jesus said, 'Have the people sit down.' There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. ⁽¹¹⁾ Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. ⁽¹²⁾ When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, 'Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.'

⁽¹³⁾ So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. ⁽¹⁴⁾ After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, 'Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.' ⁽¹⁵⁾ Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

The Gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

?A canticle is a hymn, or other Christian song of praise with lyrics taken from biblical texts

The Canticles

The Song of Moses       Kyrie Pantokrator Exodus 15:1 to 6, 11 to 13, 17 to 18

I will sing to the Lord, for he is lofty and uplifted;
the horse and its rider has he hurled into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my refuge;
the Lord has become my Savior.
This is my God and I will praise him,
the God of my people and I will exalt him.
The Lord is a mighty warrior;
Yahweh is his Name.
The chariots of Pharoah and his army has he hurled into the sea;
the finest of those who bear armor have been drowned in the Red Sea.
The fathomless deep has overwhelmed them;
they sank into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in might;
your right hand, O Lord, has overthrown the enemy.
Who can be compared with you, O Lord, among the gods?
who is like you, glorious in holiness,
awesome in renown, and worker of wonders?
You stretched forth your right hand;
the earth swallowed them up.
With your constant love you led the people you redeemed;
with your might you brought them in safety to
your holy dwelling.
You will bring them in and plant them
on the mount of your possession,
The resting-place you have made for yourself, O Lord,
the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hand has established.
The Lord shall reign
forever and forever.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.


A Song of Penitence       Kyrie Pantokrator Prayer of Manasseh 1 to 2, 4, 6 to 7, 11 to 15


O Lord and Ruler of the hosts of heaven,
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and of all their righteous offspring:
You made the heavens and the earth,
with all their vast array.
All things quake with fear at your presence;
they tremble because of your power.
But your merciful promise is beyond all measure;
it surpasses all that our minds can fathom.
O Lord, you are full of compassion,
long-suffering, and abounding in mercy.
You hold back your hand;
you do not punish as we deserve.
In your great goodness, Lord,
you have promised forgiveness to sinners,
that they may repent of their sin and be saved.
And now, O Lord, I bend the knee of my heart,
and make my appeal, sure of your gracious goodness.
I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned,
and I know my wickedness only too well.
Therefore I make this prayer to you:
Forgive me, Lord, forgive me.
Do not let me perish in my sin,
nor condemn me to the depths of the earth.
For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent,
and in me you will show forth your goodness.
Unworthy as I am, you will save me,
in accordance with your great mercy,
and I will praise you without ceasing all the days of my life.
For all the powers of heaven sing your praises,
and yours is the glory to ages of ages. Amen.



The Song of Simeon       Nunc Dimittis Luke 2:29-32  
Lord, you now have set your servant free
to go in peace as you have promised;
For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior,
whom you have prepared for all the world to see:
A Light to enlighten the nations,
and the glory of your people Israel.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.


The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord.
  He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
  He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
  He descended to the dead.
  On the third day he rose again.
  He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
  He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
  the holy catholic Church,
  the communion of saints,
  the forgiveness of sins,
  the resurrection of the body,
  and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Prayers

The Lord's Prayer   Traditional
Suffrages     A

Seasonal Collect:  Fourth Sunday in Lent
Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Collect of the Day: O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness while it was day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Mission: O God and Father of all, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Personal Prayers and Reflection

This is a time to pause, consider and listen. Pray for yourself and others.


Closing Prayers   Thanksgiving

Conclude with following
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen. 2 Corinthians 13:14



This concludes the Daily Morning Prayer
Go in Peace to Love and Serve the Lord