Monday - Days of Lent - Week 2

Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Jacek Malczewski [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Highlights & Mini-Bible Study

Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication

Days of Lent 2

Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil. | Joel 2:13|  BCP p. 76

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Readings

Today | Sunday | 12 March 2017 |

Ps. 56, 57, [58]; Ps. 64, 65; Jer. 1:11–19; Rom. 1:1–15; John 4:27–42

Psalm 56 | Individual Laments - Background

Hear my prayer and I am burden by the ways of the world;

I am afraid and want to flee;

Get them, O Lord, because they are corrupt;

It was my own friends, we went to church together, and I was betrayed;

God will hear my complaints;

God will never let the righteous stumble.

Romans 1 | Background

Paul writes about the gospel and his credentials through Christ to the ministry of the gentiles; I thank God for your faith; I would like to visit and share Christ with your faithful.

Glory be to God!

John 4 |

Jesus was with a woman who talked with him; she went back to her village -- Is he the Messiah?; the harvest is great; the Samaritans came and heard Jesus and believed.

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Prayers and Intercessions | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer.
Today | Collect of the Day | Second Sunday in Lent
God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

General Thanksgiving
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.