MORNING PRAYER Tuesday, 13 January 2015 Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Preparation O Lord, open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise. Your light springs up for the righteous and all the peoples have seen your glory. One or more of the following is said or sung: this or another prayer of thanksgiving Blessed are you, Sovereign God, king of the nations, to you be praise and glory for ever. From the rising of the sun to its setting your name is proclaimed in all the world. As the Sun of Righteousness dawns in our hearts anoint our lips with the seal of your Spirit that we may witness to your gospel and sing your praise in all the earth. Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Blessed be God for ever. a suitable hymn, or Jubilate – A Song of Joy O be joyful in the Lord, all the earth; • serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song. Know that the Lord is God; • it is he that has made us and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; • give thanks to him and bless his name. For the Lord is gracious; his steadfast love is everlasting, • and his faithfulness endures from generation to generation. Psalm 100 Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. This opening prayer may be said The night has passed, and the day lies open before us; let us pray with one heart and mind. Silence is kept. As we rejoice in the gift of this new day, so may the light of your presence, O God, set our hearts on fire with love for you; now and for ever. Amen. The Word of God Psalmody The appointed psalmody is said. Psalm 8 O Lord our governor, • how glorious is your name in all the world! Your majesty above the heavens is praised • out of the mouths of babes at the breast. You have founded a stronghold against your foes, • that you might still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, • the moon and the stars that you have ordained, What is man, that you should be mindful of him; • the son of man, that you should seek him out? You have made him little lower than the angels • and crown him with glory and honour. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands • and put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen, • even the wild beasts of the field, The birds of the air, the fish of the sea • and whatsoever moves in the paths of the sea. O Lord our governor, • how glorious is your name in all the world! We bless you, master of the heavens, for the wonderful order which enfolds this world; grant that your whole creation may find fulfilment in the Son of Man, Jesus Christ our Saviour. Psalm 9 You, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. I will give thanks to you, Lord, with my whole heart; • I will tell of all your marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in you; • I will make music to your name, O Most High. When my enemies are driven back, • they stumble and perish at your presence. For you have maintained my right and my cause; • you sat on your throne giving righteous judgement. R You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; • you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. The enemy was utterly laid waste. • You uprooted their cities; their very memory has perished. But the Lord shall endure for ever; • he has made fast his throne for judgement. For he shall rule the world with righteousness • and govern the peoples with equity. Then will the Lord be a refuge for the oppressed, • a refuge in the time of trouble. And those who know your name will put their trust in you, • for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. R Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion; • declare among the peoples the things he has done. The avenger of blood has remembered them; • he did not forget the cry of the oppressed. Have mercy upon me, O Lord; • consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death; That I may tell all your praises in the gates of the city of Zion • and rejoice in your salvation. The nations shall sink into the pit of their making • and in the snare which they set will their own foot be taken. The Lord makes himself known by his acts of justice; • the wicked are snared in the works of their own hands. R They shall return to the land of darkness, • all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten • and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever. Arise, O Lord, and let not mortals have the upper hand; • let the nations be judged before your face. Put them in fear, O Lord, • that the nations may know themselves to be but mortal. You, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. Remember, Lord, all who cry to you from death’s dark gates; do not forget those whom the world forgets, but raise your faithful ones to Zion’s gate, with your all-conquering Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Each psalm or group of psalms may end with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. If there are two Scripture readings, the first may be read here, or both may be read after the canticle. Amos 2 Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. So I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet; I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its officials with him, says the Lord. Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked. So I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals— they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned; they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed. Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was as strong as oaks; I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath. Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you for forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. And I raised up some of your children to be prophets and some of your youths to be nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel? says the Lord. But you made the nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’ So, I will press you down in your place, just as a cart presses down when it is full of sheaves. Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain their strength, nor shall the mighty save their lives; those who handle the bow shall not stand, and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves, nor shall those who ride horses save their lives; and those who are stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked on that day, says the Lord. Canticle A Song of the New Jerusalem, or another suitable canticle, for example, number 31 (page 582) or number 36 (page 587), may be said Refrain: Above you the Holy One arises, and above you God’s glory appears. Arise, shine out, for your light has come, • the glory of the Lord is rising upon you. Though night still covers the earth, • and darkness the peoples; Above you the Holy One arises, • and above you God’s glory appears. The nations will come to your light, • and kings to your dawning brightness. Your gates will lie open continually, • shut neither by day nor by night. The sound of violence shall be heard no longer in your land, • or ruin and devastation within your borders. You will call your walls, Salvation, • and your gates, Praise. No more will the sun give you daylight, • nor moonlight shine upon you; But the Lord will be your everlasting light, • your God will be your splendour. For you shall be called the city of God, • the dwelling of the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 60.1-3, 11a, 18, 19, 14b Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. Above you the Holy One arises, and above you God’s glory appears. Scripture Reading One or more readings appointed for the day are read. The reading(s) may be followed by a time of silence. 1 Corinthians 1.18-end For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’ Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’ A suitable song or chant, or a responsory in this or another form, may follow O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth tremble before him. Tell it out among the nations that the Lord is King. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Tell out his salvation from day to day. Let the whole earth tremble before him. Declare his glory among the nations and his wonders among all peoples. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth tremble before him. from Psalm 96 Gospel Canticle The Benedictus (The Song of Zechariah) is normally said, or A Song of the Blessed (page 606) may be said Refrain: Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the heavens, and those who have instructed many in virtue will shine like stars for all eternity. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, • who has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour, • born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy prophets God promised of old • to save us from our enemies, from the hands of all that hate us, To show mercy to our ancestors, • and to remember his holy covenant. This was the oath God swore to our father Abraham: • to set us free from the hands of our enemies, Free to worship him without fear, • holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, • for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, To give his people knowledge of salvation • by the forgiveness of all their sins. In the tender compassion of our God • the dawn from on high shall break upon us, To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, • and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1.68-79 Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. Refrain: Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the heavens, and those who have instructed many in virtue will shine like stars for all eternity. Prayers Intercessions are offered ¶ for the day and its tasks ¶ for the world and its needs ¶ for the Church and her life The cycle on pages 364–365 and the prayer on page 377 may be used. These responses may be used Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer (or) Lord, hear us. Lord, graciously hear us. Silence may be kept. The Collect of the day is said Everlasting God, whose servant Hilary steadfastly confessed your Son Jesus Christ to be both human and divine: grant us his gentle courtesy to bring to all the message of redemption in the incarnate Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Lord’s Prayer is said Believing the promises of God, as our Saviour taught us, so we pray 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. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen. (or) Believing the promises of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. The Conclusion May Christ, who sends us to the nations, give us the power of his Spirit. Amen. Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God.
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