Evening Prayer: Monday 16 March 2026

Monday 16 March 2026

This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.

Boniface of Ross, Bishop, eighth century
Lent

O God make speed to save us;
O Lord make haste to help us.

Glory to God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit;*
as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever.
Amen.

PSALMODY

Antiphon: Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths.
Psalm 25.3

Opening (from Psalm 25)

1. You are the God of my salvation;*
in you have I trusted all the day long.
2. Remember, O Lord, your compassion and love,*
for they are from everlasting.
3. Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions;*
remember me according to your love.
4. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,*
for my hope has been in you.

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

Psalm 44

1. We have heard with our ears, O God, our ancestors have told us, *
the deeds you did in their days, in the days of old.
2. How with your hand you drove the peoples out and planted our ancestors in the land; *
how you destroyed nations and made your people
ﬂourish.
3. For they did not take the land by their sword, nor did
their arm win the victory for them; *
but your mighty hand, your arm, and the light of your
countenance, because you favoured them.
4. You are my Sovereign and my God; *
you command victories for Jacob.
5. Through you we pushed back our adversaries; *
through your name we trampled on those who rose
up against us.
6. For I do not rely on my bow, *
and my sword does not give me the victory.
7. Surely, you gave us victory over our adversaries *
and put those who hate us to shame.
8. Every day we gloried in God, *
and we will praise your name for ever.
9. Nevertheless, you have rejected and humbled us *
and do not go forth with our armies.
10 You have made us fall back before our adversary, *
and our enemies have plundered us.
11. You have made us like sheep to be eaten *
and have scattered us among the nations.
12. You are selling your people for a triﬂe *
and are making no proﬁt on the sale of them.
13. You have made us the scorn of our neighbours, *
a mockery and derision to those around us.
14. You have made us a byword among the nations, *
a laughing-stock among the peoples.
15. My humiliation is daily before me, *
and shame has covered my face;
16. because of the taunts of the mockers and blasphemers, *
because of the enemy and avenger.
17. All this has come upon us; *
yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we betrayed
your covenant
18. Our heart never turned back, *
nor did our footsteps stray from your path;
19. Though you thrust us down into a place of misery, *
and covered us over with deep darkness.
20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, *
or stretched out our hands to some strange god,
21. will you not ﬁnd it out? *
For you know the secrets of the heart.
22. Indeed, for your sake we are killed all the day long; *
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23. Awake, O Lord! why are you sleeping? *
Arise! Do not reject us for ever.
24. Why have you hidden your face *
and forgotten our aﬄiction and oppression?
25. We sink down into the dust; *
our body cleaves to the ground.
26. Rise up, and help us, *
and save us, for the sake of your steadfast love.

Glory …

Conclusion

Song of Anselm

1. Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you;*
you are gentle with us as a mother with her children.
2. Often you weep over our sins and our pride,*
tenderly you draw us from hatred and judgement.
3. You comfort us in sorrow and bind up our wounds,*
in sickness you nurse us and with pure milk you feed us.
4. Jesus, by your dying, we are born to new life;*
by your anguish and labour we come forth in joy.
5. Despair turns to hope through your sweet goodness;*
through your gentleness, we find comfort in fear.
6. Your warmth gives life to the dead,*
your touch makes sinners righteous.
7. Lord Jesus, in your mercy, heal us;*
in your love and tenderness, remake us.
8. In your compassion, bring grace and forgiveness,*
for the beauty of heaven, may your love prepare us.

Glory …

Antiphon: Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths.

READING(S)

Mark 7.24-37

From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, ‘Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ But she answered him, ‘Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.’ Then he said to her, ‘For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.’ So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’ And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, ‘He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.’

Silence

Response Psalm 86.15

You, Lord, are gracious and full of compassion.
You, Lord, are gracious and full of compassion.
Slow to anger, full of kindness and truth.
Full of compassion.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
You, Lord, are gracious and full of compassion.

SONG OF MARY

Song of Mary Antiphon: I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and before you. Luke 15.18

1 My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
*my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour;
2 for he has looked with favour on his lowly servant;*
from this day all generations will call me blessed.
3 The Almighty has done great things for me*
and holy is his name.
4 He has mercy on those who fear him*
in every generation.
5 He has shown the strength of his arm;*
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
6 He has cast down the mighty from their thrones*
and has lifted up the lowly.
7 He has filled the hungry with good things,*
and the rich he has sent away empty.
8 He has come to the help of his servant Israel,*
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
9 the promise he made to our forebears,*
to Abraham and his children for ever.

Glory to the Father... (may be said by all)

Song of Mary Antiphon: I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and before you. Luke 15.18

PRAYERS

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
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.
Do not bring us to the time of trial,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and for ever. Amen.

Collect of the Day

Almighty God,
grant that we, who are weighed down by our sins,
may be relieved and encouraged by your grace;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end.
Amen

Lord God almighty, come and dispel the darkness from our hearts, that in the radiance of your brightness we may know you, the only unfading light, glorious in all eternity.
Amen.

Let us bless the Lord:
Thanks be to God!

The God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing:
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.