Evening Prayer: Sunday 23 March 2025

Sunday 23 March 2025

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

Third Sunday 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 65

1. You are to be praised, O God, in Zion; *
to you shall vows be performed in Jerusalem.

2. To you that hear prayer *
shall all flesh come.

3. Our sins are stronger than we are, *
but you will blot out our transgressions.

4. Happy are they whom you choose and draw to your courts to dwell there! *
They will be satisfied by the beauty of your house, by the holiness of your temple.

5. Awesome things will you show us in your righteousness, O God of our salvation, *
O Hope of all the ends of the earth and of the seas that are far away.

6. You make fast the mountains by your power; *
they are girded about with might.

7. You still the roaring of the seas, *
the roaring of their waves, and the clamour of the peoples

8. Those who dwell at the ends of the earth will tremble at your marvellous signs; *
you make the dawn and the dusk to sing for joy.

9. You visit the earth and water it abundantly; * you make it very plenteous;
the river of God is full of water. * You prepare the grain, for so you provide for the earth.

10. You drench the furrows and smooth out the ridges; *
with heavy rain you soften the ground and bless its increase.

11. You crown the year with your goodness, *
and your paths overflow with plenty.

12. May the fields of the wilderness be rich for grazing, *
and the hills be clothed with joy.

13. May the meadows cover themselves with flocks, and the valleys cloak themselves with grain; *
let them shout for joy and sing.

Glory …

Psalm 67

1. O God, be merciful to us and bless us, *
show us the light of your countenance and come to us.

2. Let your ways be known upon earth, *
your saving health among all nations.

3. Let the peoples praise you, O God; *
let all the peoples praise you.

4. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, *
for you judge the peoples with equity and guide all the nations upon earth.

5. Let the peoples praise you, O God; *
let all the peoples praise you.

6. The earth has brought forth its increase;
may you, O God our God, bless us.

7. May you bless us, *
and may all the ends of the earth stand in awe of you.

Conclusion

1 John 1

1. This is the message we have heard from Christ and proclaim to you:*
that God is light, in whom there is no darkness at all.

2. If we say that we have fellowship with God while we walk in darkness,*
we lie and do not do what is true.

3. But if we walk in the light as God is in the light,*
we have fellowship with one another.

4. For the blood of Jesus, the Son of God,*
cleanses us from all our sins.

5. If we say that we have no sin,*
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

6. If we confess our sins,*
the One who is faithful and just will forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Glory …

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

READING(S)

John 2.13-22

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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: Lord, you are indeed the Saviour of the world. Give us living water, that we may not thirst.

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: Lord, you are indeed the Saviour of the world. Give us living water, that we may not thirst.

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

Merciful Father,
we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves:
when we are discouraged by our weakness,
give us strength to follow Christ, our pattern and our hope;
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.