 Holy Week Day 2Tuesday, 04/12/2022A Liturgy For Worship and Mediation |
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Opening Words Blessed is the One who comes in God's Most Holy Name. Hosanna in the highest! Prayer For Holy Week Almighty God, Redeeming One, We come once again to this week of your Passion. We come remembering thse last days of Jesus' human life. We come seeking to be restored and reconciled to you and one another. May our worship be an experience where in praise and thanksgiving we find ourselves closer drawn to you. And, in your imminent presence of your compassion and mercy, may we be renewed to follow in the way of Jesus, sharing the path of justice and peace. Song (Click Here For Music) —Anna Bartlett Warner (1852) Across this little landscape of our life; We would see Jesus, our weak faith to strengthen For the last weariness, the final strife. We would see Jesus, the great rock foundation Whereon our feet were set with sov’reign grace; Nor life nor death, with all their agitation, Can thence remove us, if we see His face. We would see Jesus; other lights are paling, Which for long years we have rejoiced to see; The blessings of our pilgrimage are failing; We would not mourn them, for we go to Thee. We would see Jesus: this is all we’re needing; Strength, joy, and willingness come with the sight; We would see Jesus, dying, risen, pleading; Then welcome day, and farewell mortal night. Prayer Holy and Immortal God, from earliest times you have named us and called us into discipleship. Teach us to follow the One whose light scatters the darkness of our world, that we may walk as children of the light. Amen. Readings Isaiah 49:1-7 Islands, listen to me! Pay attention, distant peoples! The Holy One, God Ofd Host Most High, called me before I was born, and named me from my mother’s womb. God made my mouth a sharp sword, and hid me in the shadow of the hand of the Most High. The Almighty made me into a sharpened arrow, and concealed me in God’s quiver. The Holy One said to me, “You are my Servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” I had been thinking, “I have toiled in vain, I have exhausted myself for nothing!”— yet all the while my cause was with the God Of Hosts, and my reward was with my God. Thus says God Most High, who formed me in the womb to be God’s Servant, who destined me to bring back the children of Jacob and gather again the people of Israel: “It is not enough for you to do my bidding, to restore the tribes of Leah, Rachel, and Jacob and bring back the survivors of Israel; I will make you the light of the nations, so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” Thus says the God Of Hosts, the Redeemer of Israel, the Holy One, to the one deeply despised, the one abhorred by nations, the one enslaved by despots: “Rulers will stand when you walk in the room and court officials will pay homage because of God, who is faithful, because of the Holy One of Israel, who chose you.” —Priests for Equality. The Inclusive Bible. Sheed & Ward. Psalm 71:1-14 In you, O God, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. For you, O God, are my hope, my trust, O God, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. I have been like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all day long. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength is spent. For my enemies speak concerning me, and those who watch for my life consult together. They say, "Pursue and seize that person whom God has forsaken, for there is no one to deliver." O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed; let those who seek to hurt me be covered with scorn and disgrace. But I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more. 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 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." John 12:20-36 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. "Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say--'O God, save me from this hour'? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. O God, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. The crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Humankind must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Humankind?" Jesus said to them, "The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the shadows may not overtake you. If you walk in the shadows, you do not know where you are going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them. Prayer For the Day Christ our God, your love is poured out in death for our sakes. Hold us in your embrace as we wait for Easter's dawn. Comfort us with the promise that no power on earth, not even death itself, can separate us from your love; and strengthen us to wait until you are revealed to us Prayer Of Intercession God our strength, we lift to you the deepest prayers of our hearts that you will save us from the time of trial and comfort us in tribulation. O God, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Redeeming God, you have created and redeemed us to be your people. Continue to guide and sustain your Church, now and in the days ahead, that your will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. O God, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Sustaining God, you have been present with your people from generation to generation. Undergird your servants these times of transition, and be with all who experience changes in life. O God, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Reveal your glory to the nations, that your cross may stand as a sign of the power that conquers human pride and confounds the wisdom of this world. Amen. Prayer of Jesus O most Compassionate Life-giver, may we honor and praise you; May we work with you to establish your new order of justice peace and love; Give us what we need for growth, And help us, through forgiving others, to accept forgiveness. Strengthen us in the time of testing, that we may resist all evil, For all tenderness, strength and love are yours, now and forever. Amen. —from New Zealand Going Forth Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. Let us go forth to love. Song Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Were you there when God raised him from the tomb? Were you there when God raised him from the tomb? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when God raised him from the tomb? |
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