All Hallows Evening Prayer for Wednesday Evening (July 20, 2022)
PROCLAMATION OF THE LIGHT
One or more candles may be lit.
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness can never extinguish it. John 1:5
EVENING HYMN
Open this link in a new tab to hear the Liturgical Folk’s setting of the Phos hilaron, “O Gracious Light.”
O gracious Light,
pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven,
O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!
O gracious Light,
pure brightness of the 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 thy praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Thou art worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
thou art worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
and to be glorified through all the worlds.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe!
Your word brings on the dusk of evening,
your wisdom creates both night and day.
You determine the cycles of time,
arrange the succession of seasons,
and establish the stars in their heavenly courses.
Lord of the starry hosts is your name.
Living and eternal God, rule over us always.
Blessed be the Lord, whose word makes evening fall.
Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY
Open this link in a new tab to hear Rosemary Herklots; ‘Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive.’
1 'Forgive our sins as we forgive,'
you taught us, Lord, to pray,
but you alone can grant us grace
to live the words we say.
2 How can your pardon reach and bless
the unforgiving heart,
that broods on wrongs and will not let
old bitterness depart?
3 In blazing light your cross reveals
the truth we dimly knew:
what trivial debts are owed to us,
how great our debt to you!
4 Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls,
and bid resentment cease;
then, by your mercy reconciled
our lives will spread your peace.
5 'Forgive our sins as we forgive,'
you taught us, Lord, to pray,
but you alone can grant us grace
to live the words we say.
SCRIPTURE
Mathhew 23: 1-36 Jesus Criticizes the Religious Leaders
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
“Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’
“Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters. And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father. And don’t let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Messiah. The greatest among you must be a servant. But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
“Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’ Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding. How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it. And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it. And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’
“But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
“Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. But you will kill some by crucifixion, and you will flog others with whips in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city. As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time—from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar. I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
In today’s reading, Matthew 23: 1-36, Jesus draws the attention of the crowd and his disciples to the failings of the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees, the leading religious party during his earthly ministry. He warns the crowd and his disciples against emulating them.
It is quite a list of failings. Not practicing what they teach. Crushing people with unbearable religious demands and doing nothing to ease the burden. Doing everything for show. Pretentious. Attention-seeking. Keeping other people from entering God’s kingdom and not entering God’s kingdom themselves. Going out of their way to convert someone to their views and turning that person into someone far worse than themselves. Not keeping their word. Scrupulous in unimportant matters but neglectful of weightier matters such as justice, mercy, and faith. Greedy and self-indulgent.
Jesus compares the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees to white-washed tombs. On the outside they look beautiful but on the inside they are full of corruption. Their righteous appearance is deceiving. Their true selves are hypocritical and lawless. Jesus goes on to point out that while they make an ostentatious display of honoring the prophets, they are just as bad as their ancestors who killed the prophets. The picture that he paints of the character of the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees is not a pretty one.
The only positive thing that Jesus says about the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees is that they are the official interpreters of the law of Moses, and the crowd and his disciples should practice and obey whatever the teachers of the religious law and Pharisees tell them, just not do what they do.
Modern-day psychologists would say that there was a hug gap between the social image that the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees projected and their true selves. They were not what they appeared to be. Jesus saw right through them. He was not deceived.
A social image is the way we want other people to see us. Another description for a social image is a public persona. It is a particular type of character that a person seems to have, and which is often different from their real or private character. A person’s character is the particular combination of qualities in them which make them different from others.
Jesus’ strong indictment of the religious leaders of the time of his earthly ministry should prompt us to ask ourselves how much is our own behavior as a Christian an act and how much is genuine? We may notice that our fellow Christians behave one way at church on Sundays and another way outside of church during the week. There is a good chance that we are doing the same thing as they are. It is too easy to focus on the failings of others while ignoring our own. The truth is that we all have some Pharisee in us, those negative qualities of character which Jesus points to the attention of the crowd and his disciples. We want the social approval of our fellow Christians, so we hide them from view. That is the purpose of a social image or public persona.
Jesus is calling us to genuinely adopt the qualities of character that he urges his disciples to copy from God and to try to do them as well as God does. For example, he urges us to be kind, forgiving, and generous like God is kind, forgiving, and generous. He is not saying put on an act of being kind, forgiving, and generous but to internalize those qualities, incorporate them into our real or private character, to make them part of ourselves. Indeed, internalizing such qualities as “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” is far more important than the qualities of character that the particular social group to which we belong may be urging us to adopt.
These qualities, when it comes to qualities of character, are what sets a Jesus follower apart from other people, these qualities and believing in Jesus and living their lives according to his teaching and example. These qualities are the kind of fruit, the apostle Paul tells us, God’s grace, the power of the Holy Spirit working in us, produces in our lives.
Beneath their veneer of religious piety, the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees were very selfish. They catered to their own desires and showed little or no concern for their fellow human beings. We want to avoid the trap into which they fell. They were not kind when they should have been kind. They were not forgiving when they should have been forgiving. They were not generous when they should have been generous. As Jesus followers we want to overcome the Pharisee in us, those negative qualities of character that we share with the Pharisees, and not let them influence our thoughts, words, and actions. We can do that with the help of God’s grace.
A trick that gardeners have learned is that if they do not want weeds to take over a particular part of their garden is to plant in that corner of the garden a desirable plant that will squeeze out any other plants competing with it for space. We can cultivate the desirable qualities in our character in the same way. Unkindness will not flourish where kindness is flourishing. Unforgiveness will not flourish where forgiveness is flourishing. Meanness will not flourish where generosity is flourishing. We do not need to give the Pharisee in us any room in the garden of our lives.
Silence is kept.
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Open this link to hear the Liturgical Folk’s setting of our Lord’s Summary of the Law, “Jesus Creed.”
Jesus said
The first commandment is this:
Hear O Israel
The Lord our God is the only Lord.
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your mind,
and with all your strength.
The second is this:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE
Open this link in a new tab to hear the Liturgical Folk’s setting of the Magnificat, “Song of Mary.”
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
The promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
During the silence that follows each bidding, the congregation may pray aloud or silently for each concern or need
To our Father in heaven
let us make our requests with thanksgiving,
through our only mediator,
Jesus Christ the Son.
I ask your prayers for peace in the life of the world ...
Pray for God's peace.
Silence
I ask your prayers for all who suffer injury, sickness and loss ...
Pray for all who are afflicted.
O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!
O gracious Light,
pure brightness of the 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 thy praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Thou art worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
thou art worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
and to be glorified through all the worlds.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe!
Your word brings on the dusk of evening,
your wisdom creates both night and day.
You determine the cycles of time,
arrange the succession of seasons,
and establish the stars in their heavenly courses.
Lord of the starry hosts is your name.
Living and eternal God, rule over us always.
Blessed be the Lord, whose word makes evening fall.
Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY
Open this link in a new tab to hear Rosemary Herklots; ‘Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive.’
1 'Forgive our sins as we forgive,'
you taught us, Lord, to pray,
but you alone can grant us grace
to live the words we say.
2 How can your pardon reach and bless
the unforgiving heart,
that broods on wrongs and will not let
old bitterness depart?
3 In blazing light your cross reveals
the truth we dimly knew:
what trivial debts are owed to us,
how great our debt to you!
4 Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls,
and bid resentment cease;
then, by your mercy reconciled
our lives will spread your peace.
5 'Forgive our sins as we forgive,'
you taught us, Lord, to pray,
but you alone can grant us grace
to live the words we say.
SCRIPTURE
Mathhew 23: 1-36 Jesus Criticizes the Religious Leaders
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
“Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’
“Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters. And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father. And don’t let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Messiah. The greatest among you must be a servant. But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
“Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’ Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding. How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it. And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it. And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’
“But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
“Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. But you will kill some by crucifixion, and you will flog others with whips in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city. As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time—from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar. I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.
Silence
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory
HOMILY
Beware the Pharisee in Us
In today’s reading, Matthew 23: 1-36, Jesus draws the attention of the crowd and his disciples to the failings of the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees, the leading religious party during his earthly ministry. He warns the crowd and his disciples against emulating them.
It is quite a list of failings. Not practicing what they teach. Crushing people with unbearable religious demands and doing nothing to ease the burden. Doing everything for show. Pretentious. Attention-seeking. Keeping other people from entering God’s kingdom and not entering God’s kingdom themselves. Going out of their way to convert someone to their views and turning that person into someone far worse than themselves. Not keeping their word. Scrupulous in unimportant matters but neglectful of weightier matters such as justice, mercy, and faith. Greedy and self-indulgent.
Jesus compares the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees to white-washed tombs. On the outside they look beautiful but on the inside they are full of corruption. Their righteous appearance is deceiving. Their true selves are hypocritical and lawless. Jesus goes on to point out that while they make an ostentatious display of honoring the prophets, they are just as bad as their ancestors who killed the prophets. The picture that he paints of the character of the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees is not a pretty one.
The only positive thing that Jesus says about the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees is that they are the official interpreters of the law of Moses, and the crowd and his disciples should practice and obey whatever the teachers of the religious law and Pharisees tell them, just not do what they do.
Modern-day psychologists would say that there was a hug gap between the social image that the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees projected and their true selves. They were not what they appeared to be. Jesus saw right through them. He was not deceived.
A social image is the way we want other people to see us. Another description for a social image is a public persona. It is a particular type of character that a person seems to have, and which is often different from their real or private character. A person’s character is the particular combination of qualities in them which make them different from others.
Jesus’ strong indictment of the religious leaders of the time of his earthly ministry should prompt us to ask ourselves how much is our own behavior as a Christian an act and how much is genuine? We may notice that our fellow Christians behave one way at church on Sundays and another way outside of church during the week. There is a good chance that we are doing the same thing as they are. It is too easy to focus on the failings of others while ignoring our own. The truth is that we all have some Pharisee in us, those negative qualities of character which Jesus points to the attention of the crowd and his disciples. We want the social approval of our fellow Christians, so we hide them from view. That is the purpose of a social image or public persona.
Jesus is calling us to genuinely adopt the qualities of character that he urges his disciples to copy from God and to try to do them as well as God does. For example, he urges us to be kind, forgiving, and generous like God is kind, forgiving, and generous. He is not saying put on an act of being kind, forgiving, and generous but to internalize those qualities, incorporate them into our real or private character, to make them part of ourselves. Indeed, internalizing such qualities as “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” is far more important than the qualities of character that the particular social group to which we belong may be urging us to adopt.
These qualities, when it comes to qualities of character, are what sets a Jesus follower apart from other people, these qualities and believing in Jesus and living their lives according to his teaching and example. These qualities are the kind of fruit, the apostle Paul tells us, God’s grace, the power of the Holy Spirit working in us, produces in our lives.
Beneath their veneer of religious piety, the teachers of the religious law and the Pharisees were very selfish. They catered to their own desires and showed little or no concern for their fellow human beings. We want to avoid the trap into which they fell. They were not kind when they should have been kind. They were not forgiving when they should have been forgiving. They were not generous when they should have been generous. As Jesus followers we want to overcome the Pharisee in us, those negative qualities of character that we share with the Pharisees, and not let them influence our thoughts, words, and actions. We can do that with the help of God’s grace.
A trick that gardeners have learned is that if they do not want weeds to take over a particular part of their garden is to plant in that corner of the garden a desirable plant that will squeeze out any other plants competing with it for space. We can cultivate the desirable qualities in our character in the same way. Unkindness will not flourish where kindness is flourishing. Unforgiveness will not flourish where forgiveness is flourishing. Meanness will not flourish where generosity is flourishing. We do not need to give the Pharisee in us any room in the garden of our lives.
Silence is kept.
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
Open this link to hear the Liturgical Folk’s setting of our Lord’s Summary of the Law, “Jesus Creed.”
Jesus said
The first commandment is this:
Hear O Israel
The Lord our God is the only Lord.
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your mind,
and with all your strength.
The second is this:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE
Open this link in a new tab to hear the Liturgical Folk’s setting of the Magnificat, “Song of Mary.”
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
The promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
The Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
During the silence that follows each bidding, the congregation may pray aloud or silently for each concern or need
To our Father in heaven
let us make our requests with thanksgiving,
through our only mediator,
Jesus Christ the Son.
I ask your prayers for peace in the life of the world ...
Pray for God's peace.
Silence
I ask your prayers for all who suffer injury, sickness and loss ...
Pray for all who are afflicted.
Silence
I ask your prayers for all who wield authority and influence ...
Pray for all who exercise power.
Silence
I ask your prayers for all whom we have wronged ...
Pray for all who hate us.
Silence
I ask your prayers for our bishop(s) ...
and for all whom Christ has appointed to his service ...
Pray for God's people.
Silence
I ask your prayers for ...
During the silence members of the congregation may ask the prayers of the congregation for specific concerns and needs
Silence
Give thanks to God for all
in whom Christ has been honoured,
(especially ... )
Silence
O God, whose will it is
that all should find salvation
and come to know the truth:
receive the prayers and petitions
which we offer in faith and love;
through him who gave proof of your purpose,
and who sacrificed himself
to win freedom for all humankind,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Collect
In darkness and in light,
in trouble and in joy,
help us, heavenly Father,
to trust your love,
to serve your purpose,
and to praise your name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
RESPONSE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Liturgical Folk’s setting of the Trisagion. "Holy God."
Holy God
holy and mighty
holy immortal one
have mercy
mercy
mercy upon us
Repeat 5 more times.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
As our Saviour taught his disciples,
we pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.
BLESSING
The blessing of God,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,
I ask your prayers for all who wield authority and influence ...
Pray for all who exercise power.
Silence
I ask your prayers for all whom we have wronged ...
Pray for all who hate us.
Silence
I ask your prayers for our bishop(s) ...
and for all whom Christ has appointed to his service ...
Pray for God's people.
Silence
I ask your prayers for ...
During the silence members of the congregation may ask the prayers of the congregation for specific concerns and needs
Silence
Give thanks to God for all
in whom Christ has been honoured,
(especially ... )
Silence
O God, whose will it is
that all should find salvation
and come to know the truth:
receive the prayers and petitions
which we offer in faith and love;
through him who gave proof of your purpose,
and who sacrificed himself
to win freedom for all humankind,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Collect
In darkness and in light,
in trouble and in joy,
help us, heavenly Father,
to trust your love,
to serve your purpose,
and to praise your name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
RESPONSE
Open this link in a new tab to hear Liturgical Folk’s setting of the Trisagion. "Holy God."
Holy God
holy and mighty
holy immortal one
have mercy
mercy
mercy upon us
Repeat 5 more times.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
The Lord bless you.
As our Saviour taught his disciples,
we pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.
BLESSING
The blessing of God,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,
remain with us always. Amen.
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