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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Wednesday of Holy Week 2015

Collect:
O God, who willed your Son to submit for our sake to the yoke of the Cross, so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, grant us, your servants, to attain the grace of the resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Isaiah 50:4-9
Psalm 69
Matthew 26:14-25

Monday, March 30, 2015

Tuesday of Holy Week 2015

Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, grant us so to celebrate the mysteries of the Lord's Passion that we may merit to receive your pardon. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Isaiah 49:1-6
Psalm 71
John 13:21-33, 36-38

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Monday of Holy Week 2015

Collect:
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, though in our weakness we fail, we may be revived through the Passion of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Isaiah 42:1-7
Psalm 27
John 12:1-11

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Palm Sunday 2015

Today we celebrate Christ's Procession into Jerusalem which begins our celebration of HOLY WEEK. Let us sing together,
"Hosanna, Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."

Special links have been added about Holy Week and about Palm Sunday.

Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our Savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Mark 11:1-10 (Palm Processional Gospel)
Isaiah 50:4-7
Psalm 22
Philippians 2:6-11
Mark 14:1-15:47

Saturday of the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2015

Collect:
O God, who have made all those reborn in Christ a chosen race and a royal priesthood, grant us, we pray, the grace to will and to do what you command, that the people called to eternal life may be one in the faith of their hearts and the homage of their deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Ezekiel 37:21-28
Jeremiah 31
John 11:45-56

Friday, March 27, 2015

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent 2015


Collect:
Pardon the offenses of your peoples, we pray, O Lord, and in your goodness set us free from the bonds of the sins we have committed in our weakness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.



Readings of the Day:
Jeremiah 20:10-13
Psalm 18
John 10:31-42

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent 2015

Collect:
O God, who reward the merits of the just and offer pardon to sinners who do penance, have mercy, we pray, on those who call upon you, that the admission of our guilt may serve to obtain your pardon for our sins. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Genesis 17:3-9
Psalm 105
John 8:51-59