Evening Prayer: Tuesday 11 March 2025

Tuesday 11 March 2025

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

Week 1 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 32
1. Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, *
and whose sin is put away!

2. Happy are they to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, *
and in whose spirit there is no guile!

3. While I held my tongue, my bones withered away, *
because of my groaning all day long.

4. For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; *
my moisture was dried up as in the heat of summer.

5. Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and did not conceal my guilt. *
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.”
Then you forgave me the guilt of my sin.
6. Therefore all the faithful will make their prayers to you in time of trouble; *
when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach them.

7. You are my hiding-place; you preserve me from trouble;*
you surround me with shouts of deliverance.

8. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go; *
I will guide you with my eye.

9. Do not be like horse or mule, which have no understanding; *
who must be fitted with bit and bridle, or else they will not stay near you.”

10. Great are the tribulations of the wicked; *
but mercy embraces those who trust in the Lord.

11. Be glad, you righteous, and rejoice in the Lord; *
shout for joy, all who are true of heart.

Glory …

Psalm 36
1. There is a voice of rebellion deep in the hearts of the wicked; *
there is no fear of God in their eyes.

2. They flatter themselves in their own eyes *
that their hateful sin will not be found out.

3. The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; *
they have left off acting wisely and doing good.

4. They think up wickedness upon their beds and have set themselves in no good way; *
they do not abhor that which is evil.

5. Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, *
and your faithfulness to the clouds.

6. Your righteousness is like the strong mountains, your justice like the great deep; *
you save both mortals and beasts, O Lord.

7. How priceless is your love, O God! *
Your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

8. They feast upon the abundance of your house; *
you give them drink from the river of your delights.

9. For with you is the well of life, *
and in your light we see light.

10. Continue your loving-kindness to those who know you,*
and your favour to those who are true of heart.

11. Let not the foot of the proud come near me, *
nor the hand of the wicked push me aside.

12. See how they are fallen, those who work wickedness!*
They are cast down and shall not be able to rise.

Conclusion


Matthew 5

1. Blessed are the poor in spirit,*
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

2. Blessed are those who mourn,*
for they shall be comforted.


3. Blessed are the meek,*
for they shall inherit the earth.

4. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,*
for they shall be satisfied.

5. Blessed are the merciful,*
for they shall obtain mercy.

6. Blessed are the pure in heart,*
for they shall see God.

7. Blessed are the peacemakers,*
for they shall be called the children of God.

8. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake,*
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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: We shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. (Matthew 4.4)

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: We shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. (Matthew 4.4)

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,
whose Son fasted forty days in the wilderness,
and was tempted as we are, yet did not sin:
give us grace to discipline ourselves in submission to your Spirit,
that, as you know our weakness,
so we may know your power to save;
through the same 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.