A Collect for The Third Sunday In Lent
WE beseech thee,
Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy
humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty, to
be our defence against all our enemies; through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
A Collect for the Season of Lent
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast
made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent; Create
and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting
our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the
God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
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 Morning Prayer
Hymn: Open, Lord, My Inward Ear
Psalms: Day 10
First Reading: Numbers 21:1-9
Second Reading: Mark 9:30-end
Anthem: Miserere Mei
Hymn: Let All The World In Every Corner Sing
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Evening Prayer
Hymn: O For A Heart To Praise My God
Psalms: Day 10
First Reading: Numbers 21:10 -31
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 3
Anthem: Miserere Mei
Hymn: Lamb Of God, Whose Bleeding Love
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Setting An Example By True Repentance THUS the parson, considering that repentance is the great virtue of the gospel, and one of the first steps of pleasing God, having for his own use examined the nature of it, is able to explain it after to others. And, particularly, having doubted sometimes, whether his repentance were true, or at least in that degree it ought to be,—since he found himself sometimes to weep more for the loss of some temporal things, than for offending God,—he came at length to this resolution, that repentance is an act of the mind, not of the body … George Herbert (1593-1633)
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The Comfortable Words
COME unto me all that
travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. St. Matth. xi. 28.
So God loved the world, that he gave his
only-begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. St. John iii. 16
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Listen to The Lord's Prayer
OUR Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. |
The Litany
BY thine Agony and Bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial; by thy glorious Resurrection
and Ascension, and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost,
Good Lord, deliver us.
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Holy Communion
The Third Sunday In Lent
Epistle: Ephesians 5:1-14
Gospel: Luke 11:14-28
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For The Armed Forces
FROM thy holy sanctuary open
thine eyes and behold, stretch forth thy hand and help, defend and save
our Armies and Navies, O thou God of power, from all evil of man,
and all evil of chance.
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 The Sublime Purpose Of Worship
PUBLIC worship is not a mere attendance at an appointed place to hear of God; it is the means vouchsafed
to the elect of God of offering to the King of kings, in communion with all holy creatures, cherubim,
and seraphim and all the hosts of heaven, the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise.
Walter Farquhar Hook (1798-1875)
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 The Triumph Of Hope
THE past is beyond recall.
Put it behind you. The future is full of magnificent opportunities.
Endeavour to realise them. Be energetic, be courageous, be hopeful.
In the agony of your contrition, from the depths of your despair,
listen to the Divine Voice which summons you: "Let the dead bury
their dead; dead opportunities, dead regrets, dead failures; yes
even, dead sins, and follow thou Me".
Bishop Joseph Lightfoot, 1828-1889
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 Christ In The Manger And The Sacrament
CHRIST in the Sacrament is not altogether unlike Christ in the cratch. To the cratch we
may well like the husk or outward symbols of it. Outwardly it seems little worth but it is
rich of contents, as was the crib this day with Christ in it.
Bishop Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626
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