Evening Prayer: Monday 31 March 2025

Monday 31 March 2025

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

Week 4 of Lent
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 147
1. Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! *
How pleasant it is to honour God with praise!

2. The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem *
and gathers the exiles of Israel.

3. The Lord heals the brokenhearted *
and binds up their wounds.

4. The Lord counts the number of stars *
and calls them all by their names.

5. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; *
there is no limit to the wisdom of God.

6. The Lord lifts up the lowly, *
but casts the wicked to the ground.

7. Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; *
make music to our God upon the harp.

8. The Lord covers the heavens with clouds *and prepares rain for the earth,
making grass to grow upon the mountains * and green plants to serve humankind.

9. The Lord provides food for flocks and herds *
and for the young ravens when they cry.

10. The Lord is not impressed by the might of a horse *
and has no pleasure in human strength,

11. but finds pleasure in those who fear God, *
in those who await the gracious favour of the Lord.

12. Worship the Lord, O Jerusalem; *
praise your God, O Zion,

13. who has strengthened the bars of your gates, *
who has blessed your children within you.

14. For the Lord has established peace on your borders *
and satisfies you with the finest wheat.

15. The Lord sends out a command to the earth, *
and this word runs very swiftly.

16. The Lord gives snow like wool *
and scatters hoarfrost like ashes

17. and hail like bread-crumbs; *
who can stand against such cold?

18. The Lord sends forth the word and melts them, *
blowing with the wind and the waters flow.

19. The Lord declares the word to Jacob, *
statutes and judgements to Israel.

20. The Lord has not done so to any other nation; *
to them these judgements have not been revealed.
Hallelujah!

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)

John 6.1-15

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, ‘Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?’ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, ‘Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.’ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, ‘There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?’ Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, ‘Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.’ So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, ‘This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.’ When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

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.