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Crucifixion, Agnolo Gaddi [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Daily Office Readings and Brief Reflections Opening Sentence Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Click here Today's Readings Friday | 25 March 2016 | Good Friday Ps. 95 22; Ps. 40:1–14 (15–19) 54; Lam. 3:1–9 19–33; 1 Pet. 1:10–20; John 13:36–38 or John 19:38–42 Psalm 22 God why have you forsaken me? I cry to you. You are the holy one! My ancestors trusted in the Lord; I trust you; I am surrounded by my enemies; Be not far away and  hasten  to help me; Give glory to the Lord for he does not hide his face even to the poor; All the earth will come to the Lord; I will live for the Lord and God's salvation. Lamentations 3 | Background | Click here 25  The  Lord  is good to those who wait for him,      to the soul that seeks him. 26  It is good that one should wait quietly      for the salvation of the  Lord...

Read |   Day 240 | Friday | August 28 | Lamentations 5: 1-22 Obadiah 1: 1a, 1b-9, 10-14, 15-21 2   Kings 25: 22-26 Jeremiah 40: 7-12, 13-16 Jeremiah 41: 1-18  Background | When was Lamentations Written? | Click here for a Jewish perspective  Date | 586 BC Reading | Lamentations - Restore us, Lord...; You rule forever; Obadiah - Edom destroyed and Israel restored; 2 Kings & Jeremiah - Gedaliah Babylonian governor of Judah & plots. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 | kindle edition Next |  Day 241 | Saturday | August 29 | Jeremiah 42: 1-22  Jeremiah 43: 1-13  Jeremiah 44: 1-30  Ezekiel 33: 21-33 +++ Listen and pray the morning office provided by the good people of the Episcopal Parish of Garrett County, Maryland, USA via Mission St Clare –  Click here A Collect for Fridays Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered no...

Read |   Day 238 | Wednesday | August 26 | Jeremiah 39: 11-18 Jeremiah 40: 1-6 2   Kings 25: 8-21 Jeremiah 52: 12-27 2   Chronicles 36: 15-21 Lamentations 1: 1-22 Date | 586 BC Reading | Jeremiah stays put in Judah; Temple is destroyed;  Jeremiah wrote Lamentations to mourn the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC and the beginning of the Exile. "How deserted lies the city ..." Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 | kindle edition Next |   Day 239 | Thursday | August 27 | Lamentations 2: 1-22 Lamentations 3: 1-66 Lamentations 4: 1-22 Following | Day 240 | Friday | August 28 | Lamentations 5: 1-22 Obadiah 1: 1a, 1b-9, 10-14, 15-21 2   Kings 25: 22-26 Jeremiah 40: 7-12, 13-16 Jeremiah 41: 1-18  +++ Listen and pray the morning office provided by the good people of the Episcopal Parish of Garrett County, Maryland, USA via Mission St Clare –  Click here