Evening Prayer: Wednesday 26 March 2025

Wednesday 26 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)

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 70

1. Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; *
O Lord, make haste to help me.

2. Let those who seek my life be ashamed and altogether dismayed; *
let those who take pleasure in my misfortune draw back and be disgraced.

3. Let those who say to me “Aha!” and gloat over me turn back, *
because they are ashamed.

4. Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; *
let those who love your salvation say for ever, “Great is the Lord!”

5. But as for me, I am poor and needy; come to me speedily, O God. *
You are my helper and my deliverer; O Lord, do not tarry.

Glory …

Psalm 72

1. Give the king your justice, O God, *
and your righteousness to the king’s son;

2. that he may rule your people righteously *
and the poor with justice;

3. that the mountains may bring prosperity to the people, *
and the little hills bring righteousness.

4. He shall defend the needy among the people, *
rescuing the poor and crushing the oppressor.

5. He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure, *
from one generation to another.

6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown field, *
like showers that water the earth.

7. In his time shall the righteous flourish; *
there shall be abundance of peace till the moon shall be no more.

8. He shall rule from sea to sea, *
and from the River to the ends of the earth.

9. His foes shall bow down before him, *
and his enemies lick the dust.

10. The rulers of Tarshish and of the isles shall pay
tribute, *
and the rulers of Arabia and Saba offer gifts.

11. All rulers shall bow down before him, *
and all the nations do him service.

12. For he shall deliver the poor who cries out in
distress *
and the oppressed who has no helper.

13. He shall have pity on the lowly and poor *
and shall preserve the lives of the needy.

14. He shall redeem their lives from oppression and violence, *
and dear shall their blood be in his sight.

15. Long may he live! *
And may there be given to him gold from Arabia; may prayer be made for him always, and may they bless him all the day long.

16. May there be abundance of grain on the earth, growing thick even on the hilltops;
may its fruit flourish like Lebanon, and its grain like grass upon the earth

17. May his name remain for ever and be established as long as the sun endures; *
may all the nations bless themselves in him and call him blessed.

18. Blessed are you, Lord God, the God of Israel, *
for you alone do wondrous deeds!

19. And blessed be your glorious name for ever *
and may all the earth be filled with your glory.
Amen. Amen.

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 8.12-20

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.’ Then the Pharisees said to him, ‘You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid.’ Jesus answered, ‘Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge by human standards; I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgement is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. In your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf.’ Then they said to him, ‘Where is your Father?’ Jesus answered, ‘You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.’ He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

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.