Morning Prayer: Tuesday 13 May 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Tuesday Fourth Sunday after Easter
Easter
Week 4 of Easter
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: Christ has been raised from the dead:* the first fruits of those who sleep. (1 Corinthians 15-20)
Opening
Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn
(Or from Easter Anthems)
1. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us;*
so let us celebrate the feast.
2. Not with the old leaven of corruption and wickedness,*
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
3. Christ once raised from the dead dies no more;*
death has no more dominion over him.
4. In dying, he died to sin once for all;*
in living, he lives to God.
5. See yourselves therefore as dead to sin,*
and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
6. Christ has been raised from the dead,*
the first fruits of those who sleep.
7. For as by man came death,*
by man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
8. For as in Adam all die,*
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Glory ...
or a suitable hymn
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
Wisdom 10
1. Wisdom freed a holy people and a blameless race,*
from a nation of oppressors.
2. She entered the soul of a servant of the Lord,*
and withstood fearsome rulers with wonders and signs.
3. To the saints she gave the reward of their labours,*
and led them by a marvellous road.
4. She was their shelter by day,*
and a blaze of stars by night.
5. She brought them across the Red Sea;*
she led them through mighty waters.
6. She swallowed their enemies in the waves,*
and spat them out from the depths of the sea.
7. Then, Lord, the righteous sang the glories of your name,*
and praised together your protecting hand.
8. For wisdom opened the mouths of the silent*
and gave speech to the tongues of her children.
Glory ...
Christ has been raised from the dead:* the first fruits of those who sleep.
READING(S)
Wisdom of Solomon 2.21-3.9
for their wickedness blinded them,
and they did not know the secret purposes of God,
nor hoped for the wages of holiness,
nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;
for God created us for incorruption,
and made us in the image of his own eternity,
but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,
and those who belong to his company experience it.
But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and no torment will ever touch them.
In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,
and their departure was thought to be a disaster,
and their going from us to be their destruction;
but they are at peace.
For though in the sight of others they were punished,
their hope is full of immortality.
Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good,
because God tested them and found them worthy of himself;
like gold in the furnace he tried them,
and like a sacrificial burnt-offering he accepted them.
In the time of their visitation they will shine forth,
and will run like sparks through the stubble.
They will govern nations and rule over peoples,
and the Lord will reign over them for ever.
Those who trust in him will understand truth,
and the faithful will abide with him in love,
because grace and mercy are upon his holy ones,
and he watches over his elect.
Colossians 1.15-23
And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him— provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel.
Silence
Response ((Psalm 96.4; 105.1))
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, alleluia, alleluia.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, alleluia, alleluia.
Make known God’s deeds among the nations.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, alleluia, alleluia.
SONG OF ZECHARIAH
Song of Zechariah Antiphon: You will guide us with your counsel, O God: * and, after, receive us with glory. I am the resurrection* * and the life, says the Lord; alleluia!
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.
Song of Zechariah Antiphon: You will guide us with your counsel, O God: * and, after, receive us with glory. I am the resurrection* * and the life, says the Lord; alleluia!
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
O God,the light of whose truth stretches out to those who go astray,
that they may return to the path of righteousness:
give your grace to all who profess themselves Christians,
that they may cast out what is harmful,
and pursue all that gives life;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end.
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.
