Morning Prayer: Wednesday 28 May 2025

Wednesday 28 May 2025

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

Wednesday after Sixth Sunday After Easter
Easter

Week 6 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

Psalm 74
1. O God, why have you utterly cast us off? *
Why is your wrath so hot against the sheep of your pasture?
2. Remember your congregation that you purchased long ago, *
the tribe you redeemed to be your inheritance, and Mount Zion where you dwell.
3. Turn your steps toward the endless ruins; *
the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary.
4. Your adversaries roared in your holy place; *
they set up their banners as tokens of victory.
5. They were like men coming up with axes *
to cut down a grove of trees;
6. they broke down all your carved work *
with hatchets and hammers.
7. They set fire to your holy place; *
they defiled the dwelling place of your name
and razed it to the ground.
8. They said to themselves, ”Let us destroy them altogether.” *
They burned down all the meeting-places of God in the land.
9. There are no signs for us to see; there is no prophet left; *
there is not one among us who knows how long.
10. How long, O God, will the adversary scoff? *
Will the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
11. Why do you draw back your hand? *
Why is your mighty hand hidden in your bosom?
12. Yet you are my sovereign from ancient times, *
victorious in the midst of the earth.
13. You divided the sea by your might *
and shattered the heads of the dragons upon the waters;
14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan *
and gave it to the people of the desert for food.
15. You split open spring and torrent; *
you dried up ever-flowing rivers.
16. Yours is the day, yours also the night; *
you established the moon and the sun.
17. You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; *
you made both summer and winter.
18. Remember, O Lord, how the enemy scoffed, *
how a foolish people despised your name.
19. Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; *
never forget the lives of your poor.
20. Look upon your covenant; *
the dark places of the earth are haunts of violence.
21. Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed; *
let the poor and needy praise your name.
22. Arise, O God, maintain your cause; *
remember how fools revile you all day long.
23. Forget not the clamour of your adversaries, *
the unending tumult of those who rise up against you.

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)

Baruch 3.24-37

O Israel, how great is the house of God,
how vast the territory that he possesses!
It is great and has no bounds;
it is high and immeasurable.
The giants were born there, who were famous of old,
great in stature, expert in war.
God did not choose them,
or give them the way to knowledge;
so they perished because they had no wisdom,
they perished through their folly.


Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her,
and brought her down from the clouds?
Who has gone over the sea, and found her,
and will buy her for pure gold?
No one knows the way to her,
or is concerned about the path to her.
But the one who knows all things knows her,
he found her by his understanding.
The one who prepared the earth for all time
filled it with four-footed creatures;
the one who sends forth the light, and it goes;
he called it, and it obeyed him, trembling;
the stars shone in their watches, and were glad;
he called them, and they said, ‘Here we are!’
They shone with gladness for him who made them.
This is our God;
no other can be compared to him.
He found the whole way to knowledge,
and gave her to his servant Jacob
and to Israel, whom he loved.
Afterwards she appeared on earth
and lived with humankind.

James 5.13-18

Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.

Luke 12.22-31

He said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, strive for his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

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: I am the vine* * you are the branches, 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.

Glory ... (may be said by all)

Song of Zechariah Antiphon: I am the vine* * you are the branches, 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, from whom all good things arise:
grant such grace to those who call on you,
that, by your inspiration,
we may ponder those things that are right,
and, by your guidance, do them;
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.