Evening Prayer: Sunday 13 April 2025

Sunday 13 April 2025

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

Palm Sunday
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 143)

1. I spread out my hands to you;*
my soul gasps to you like a thirsty land.

2. O Lord, make haste to answer me; my spirit fails me;*
do not hide your face from me or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

3. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord,*
for I flee to you for refuge.

4. Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God;*
let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

Psalm 107.23-43
23. Some went down to the sea in ships *
and plied their trade in deep waters;

24. They beheld your works, O Lord, *
and your wonders in the deep.

25. Then you spoke, and a stormy wind arose, *
which tossed high the waves of the sea.

26. They mounted up to the heavens and fell back to the depths; *
their hearts melted because of their peril.

27. They reeled and staggered like drunkards *
and were at their wits’ end.

28. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and you delivered them from their distress.

29. You stilled the storm to a whisper *
and quieted the waves of the sea.

30. Then were they glad because of the calm, *
and you brought them to the harbour they were bound for.

31. Let them give thanks to you, O Lord, for your mercy *
and the wonders you do for your children.

32. Let them exalt you in the congregation of the people *
and praise you in the council of the elders.

33. The Lord changed rivers into deserts, *
and water-springs into thirsty ground,

34. a fruitful land into salt flats, *
because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

35. The Lord changed deserts into pools of water *
and dry land into water-springs,

36. settling the hungry there, *
and they founded a city to dwell in.

37. They sowed fields, and planted vineyards, *
and brought in a fruitful harvest.

38. The Lord blessed them, so that they increased greatly; *
and did not let their herds decrease.

39. Yet when they were diminished and brought low, *
through stress of adversity and sorrow,

40. (You pour contempt on princes *
and make them wander in trackless wastes)

41. The Lord lifted up the poor out of misery *
and multiplied their families like flocks of sheep.

42. The upright will see this and rejoice, *
but all wickedness will shut its mouth.

43. Whoever is wise will ponder these things, *
and consider well the mercies of the Lord.

Glory …

Conclusion


1 Peter 2

1. Christ our Lord suffered for us, leaving us an example,*
that we should follow in his steps.

2. He committed no sin, no guile was found on his lips;*
when he was reviled he did not revile in return.

3. When he suffered he did not threaten,*
but trusted in God who judges justly.

4. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,*
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

5. By his wounds we have been healed;*
for we were straying like sheep,



6. But now we have returned*
to the shepherd and guardian of our souls.

Glory …

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

READING(S)

Zechariah 12.9-11;13.1,7-9

And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. ‘Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,’ says the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones. In the whole land, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’

Matthew 21.12-17

Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a den of robbers.’ The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he cured them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’, they became angry and said to him, ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Yes; have you never read, “Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself”?’ He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

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: Hosanna to the Son of David!

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: Hosanna to the Son of David!

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

Assist us, Lord God of our salvation:
that we may enter with joy
the mysteries of this most holy week,
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.