Evening Prayer: Thursday 27 March 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Week 3 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
to those who are pure in heart.
2. But as for me, my feet had nearly slipped; *
I had almost tripped and fallen;
3. because I envied the proud *
and saw the prosperity of the wicked:
4. For they suffer no pain, *
and their bodies are sleek and sound;
5. in the misfortunes of others they have no share; *
they are not afflicted as others are;
6. therefore they wear their pride like a necklace *
and wrap their violence about them like a cloak.
7. Their iniquity comes from gross minds, *
and their hearts overflow with wicked thoughts.
8. They scoff and speak maliciously; *
out of their haughtiness they plan oppression.
9. They set their mouths against the heavens, *
and their evil speech runs through the world.
10. And so the people turn to them *
and find in them no fault.
11. They say, ”How should God know? *
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12. So then, these are the wicked; *
always at ease, they increase their wealth.
13. In vain have I kept my heart clean, *
and washed my hands in innocence.
14. I have been afflicted all day long, *
and punished every morning.
15. Had I gone on speaking this way, *
I should have betrayed the generation of your children.
16. When I tried to understand these things, *
it was too hard for me;
17. Until I entered the sanctuary of God *
and discerned the end of the wicked.
18. Surely, you set them in slippery places; *
you cast them down in ruin.
19. Oh, how suddenly do they come to destruction, *
come to an end, and perish from terror!
20. Like a dream when one awakens, O Lord, *
when you arise you will make their image vanish.
21. When my mind became embittered, *
I was sorely wounded in my heart.
22. I was stupid and had no understanding; *
I was like a brute beast in your presence.
23. Yet I am always with you; *
you hold me by my hand.
24. You will guide me by your counsel, *
and afterwards receive me with glory.
25. Whom have I in heaven but you? *
and having you I desire nothing upon earth.
26. Though my flesh and my heart should waste away, *
you are the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
27. Truly, those who forsake you will perish; *
you destroy all who are unfaithful.
28. But it is good for me to be near you; I have made you, Lord God, my refuge. *
I will speak of all your works in the gates of the city of Zion.
Glory …
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 8.21-32
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.
