Morning Prayer: Saturday 13 September 2025

Saturday 13 September 2025

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

Cyprian of Carthage, Bishop and Marty, 258
Season of Creation

Creation Week 1

O Lord, open our lips:
and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

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.
Amen.

PSALMODY

Antiphon: O God, you created the heavens and spread out the earth You gave breath to all people and spirit to everything that lives. (Isaiah 42.5)

Opening

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

(Or from (Psalm 24.1-4))

1. The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it;

2. for God has founded it on the seas,
and established it on the rivers.

3. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand in God’s holy place?
4. Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
who do not lift up their souls to what is false, and do not swear deceitfully.

Glory ...
or a suitable hymn

Psalm 35
1. Fight those who fight me, O Lord; *
attack those who are attacking me.
2. Take up shield and armour *
and rise up to help me.
3. Draw the sword and bar the way against those who
pursue me; *
say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
4. Let those who seek after my life be shamed and
humbled; *
let those who plot my ruin fall back and be dismayed.
5. Let them be like chaff before the wind, *
and the angel of the Lord drive them away.
6. Let their way be dark and slippery, *
and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
7. For they have secretly spread a net for me without a
cause; *
without a cause they have dug a pit to take me alive.
8. Let ruin come upon them unawares; *
let them be caught in the net they hid; let them fall
into the pit they dug.
9. Then I will be joyful in the Lord; *
I will glory in your victory.
10. My very bones will say, “Lord, who is like you?*
You deliver the poor from those who are too strong for
them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”
11. Malicious witnesses rise up against me; *
they charge me with matters I know nothing about.
12. They pay me evil in exchange for good; *
my soul is full of despair.
13. But when they were sick I dressed in sack-cloth *
and humbled myself by fasting;
14. I prayed with my whole heart, *as one would for a
friend or kin,
I behaved like one who mourns for a parent, *bowed
down and grieving.
15. But when I stumbled, they were glad and gathered
together; they gathered against me; *
strangers whom I did not know tore me to pieces and
would not stop.
16. They put me to the test and mocked me; *
they gnashed at me with their teeth.
17. O Lord, how long will you look on? *
Rescue me from the roaring beasts and my life from the
young lions.
18. I will give you thanks in the great congregation; *
I will praise you in the mighty throng.
19. Do not let my treacherous foes rejoice over me, *
nor let those who hate me without a cause wink at
each other.
20 For they do not plan for peace, *
but invent deceitful schemes against the quiet in the
land.
21. They opened their mouths at me and said, *
“Aha! We saw it with our own eyes.”
22. You saw it, O Lord; do not be silent; *
O Lord, be not far from me.
23. Awake, arise, to my cause, *
to my defence, my God and my Lord!
24. Give me justice, O Lord my God, according to your
righteousness; *
do not let them triumph over me.
25. Do let them say in their hearts, “Aha! Just what we
want!”*
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed this one up.”
26. Let all who rejoice at my ruin be ashamed and
disgraced; *
let those who boast against me be clothed with dismay
and shame.
27. Let those who favour my cause sing out with joy and be
glad; *
let them say always, “Great are you, O Lord, who
desires the prosperity of your servant.”
28. And my tongue shall be talking of your righteousness*
and of your praise all the day long.

Glory ...


Conclusion

(Isaiah 24.4-7)

4. The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.
5. The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants;
for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
6. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth dwindled, and few people are left.
7. The wine dries up, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Glory ...

O God, you created the heavens and spread out the earth. You gave breath to all people and spirit to everything which lives.

READING(S)

1 Kings 18.41-19.8

Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of rushing rain.’ So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; there he bowed himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees. He said to his servant, ‘Go up now, look towards the sea.’ He went up and looked, and said, ‘There is nothing.’ Then he said, ‘Go again seven times.’ At the seventh time he said, ‘Look, a little cloud no bigger than a person’s hand is rising out of the sea.’ Then he said, ‘Go and say to Ahab, “Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.” ’ In a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind; there was heavy rain. Ahab rode off and went to Jezreel. But the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran in front of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.’ Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and eat.’ He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Philippians 3.17-4.7

Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation so that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Silence

Response ((Proverbs 3.19-20))

By your wisdom, O Lord, you founded the earth and established the heavens;
By your wisdom, O Lord, you founded the earth and established the heavens;
By you knowledge the deeps broke open.
You founded the earth and established the heavens;
Glory to God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit.
By your wisdom, O Lord, you founded the earth and established the heavens.

SONG OF ZECHARIAH

Song of Zechariah Antiphon: O Lord God, you made the heavens and the earth * by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

1 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel,* for he has come to his people and set them free.
2 He has raised up for us a mighty saviour,* born of the house of his servant David.
3 Through his holy prophets he promised of old* that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all that hate us.
4 He promised to show mercy to our forebears,* and to remember his holy covenant.
5 This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:* to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
6 free to worship him without fear,* holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
7 You my child shall be called the prophet of the Most High,* for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
8 to give his people knowledge of salvation* by the forgiveness of all their sins.
9 In the tender compassion of our God* the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
10 to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,* and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Glory ... (may be said by all)

Song of Zechariah Antiphon: O Lord God, you made the heavens and the earth * by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

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

Holy God,
Creator of the world and fount of all life,
you never abandon the creatures formed by your wisdom:
remain with us always, we pray,
working for our good,
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen

God most holy, we give you thanks for bringing us out of the shadow of night into the light of morning; and we ask you for the joy of spending this day in your service, so that when evening comes, we may once more give you thanks, through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.
Amen

Let us bless the Lord:
Thanks be to God!

The Lord bless us and preserve us from all evil;
and bring us to life eternal.
Amen.