Evening Prayer: Sunday 30 March 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Fourth 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)
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
and offended in the desert!
41. Again and again they tempted God *
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember the power of God *
in the day when the Lord ransomed them from the enemy;
43. how God wrought signs in Egypt *
and omens in the field of Zoan,
44. turning their rivers into blood, *
so that they could not drink of their streams;
45. sending swarms of flies among them, which ate them up, *
and frogs, which destroyed them;
46. giving their crops to the caterpillar, *
the fruit of their toil to the locust;
47. killing their vines with hail *
and their sycamores with frost;
48. delivering their cattle to hailstones *
and their livestock to hot thunderbolts.
49. God poured out upon them blazing anger: *
fury, indignation and distress, a troop of destroying angels.
50. Giving full rein to anger, God did not spare their souls from death, *
but delivered their lives to the plague,
51. striking down all the firstborn of Egypt, *
the flower of youth in the dwellings of Ham.
52. God led this people like sheep *
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53. The Lord led them to safety, and they were not afraid; *
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54. God brought them to the holy land, *
the mountain the strong hand of God had won.
55. God drove out the Canaanites before them and apportioned an inheritance to them by lot, *
making the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56. But they tested and defied the Most High *
and did not keep the commandments.
57. They turned away and were disloyal like their ancestors; *
they were undependable like a warped bow.
58. They grieved God with their hill-altars *
and provoked displeasure with their idols.
59. Hearing this, God was angry *
and utterly rejected Israel;
60. forsaking the shrine at Shiloh, *
the tabernacle where God had lived among this people;
61. delivering the ark into captivity, *
the glory of God into the adversary’s hand;
62. giving this people to the sword *
and becoming angry against the very inheritance of God.
63. The fire consumed their young men; *
there were no wedding songs for their young women.
64. Their priests fell by the sword, *
and their widows made no lamentation.
65. Then the Lord woke as though from sleep, *
like a warrior refreshed with wine,
66. striking the enemies of God on the backside *
and putting them to perpetual shame.
67. God rejected the tent of Joseph *
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68. choosing instead the tribe of Judah *
and Mount Zion, beloved by God,
69. where a sanctuary was built like the heights of heaven, *
like the everlasting earth.
70. God chose David as a servant *
and took him away from the sheepfolds,
71. bringing him from following the ewes, *
to be a shepherd over Jacob God’s people and over the inheritance of Israel.
72. So David shepherded them with a faithful and true heart *
and guided them with the skillfulness of God’s hands.
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 3.14-21
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.
