Week Three
Monday Evening
Greeting and Doxology
PSALM 136
Rejoice and give thanks. God’s love is forever.
Our God is good,
give thanks!
God’s love is for ever!
Our God of God’s,
give thanks! God’s love is forever!
Our Lord of lords, give thanks!
God’s love is for ever!
Alone the maker of worlds!
God’s love is for ever!
Architect for the skies!
God’s love is forever!
Spread land on the sea!
God’s love is for ever!
Set the great lights above!
God’s love is for ever!
The sun to rule the day!
God’s love is for ever!
The moon and stars,
the night! God’s love is for ever!
Struck down Egypt’s firstborn!
God’s love is for ever!
Guided Israel’s escape!
God’s love is for ever!
Held out a mighty arm!
God’s love is for ever!
Split in two the Red Sea!
God’s love is for ever!
Led Israel across!
God’s love is for ever!
Drowned Pharaoh and his troops!
God’s love is for ever!
Led the desert trek!
God’s love is for ever!
Struck down mighty tribes!
God’s love is for ever!
Killed powerful kings!
God’s love is for ever!
Sohon, the Amorite king!
God’s love is for ever!
And Og, Bashan’s king!
God’s love is for ever!
Gave Israel a land!
God’s love is for ever!
For Israel to keep!
God’s love is for ever!
Remembered our distress!
God’s love is for ever!
Kept us from defeat!
God’s love is for ever!
God feeds all living things!
God’s love is for ever!
God in heaven be thanked!
God’s love is for ever!
READING Judith 16:13-15
I will sing to my God a new song:
O Lord, you are great and glorious,
wonderful in strength, invincible.
Let all your creatures serve you,
for you spoke, and they were made.
You sent forth your spirit, and it formed them;
there is none that can resist your voice.
For the mountains shall be shaken
to their foundations with the waters;
before your glance the rocks shall melt like wax.
But to those who fear you you show mercy.
CANTICLE OF MARY
Discover to me, O my God, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time, and the length of eternity.
I acclaim the greatness of the Lord,
I delight in God my savior,
who regarded my humble state.
Truly from this day on All ages will call me blest.
For God, wonderful in power,
has used that strength for me.
Holy the name of the Lord!
Whose mercy embraces the faithful,
one generation to the next.
The mighty arm of God
scatters the proud in their conceit,
Pulls tyrants from their thrones,
and raises up the humble.
The Lord fills the starving
And lets the rich go hungry.
God rescues lowly Israel,
recalling the promise of mercy,
the promise made to our ancestors,
to Abraham’s heirs for ever.
INTERCESSIONS
O Extraordinary God, you reveal yourself in such ordinary ways; we pray to be more mindful of you in our everyday life:
~Help us to see you, O God.
God of wonders, give us the eyes of children to respond with delight to the newness and freshness of each moment:
God of life, open our eyes to your presence in the faces of all whom we meet today: God of truth teach us to recognize your message in all the events of the day:
God of peace, show us the way to serenity in the midst of confusion and division: God of light, we place our trust in you:
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PRAYER
The joys and sorrows of our lives follow one another, O God, as night follows day. Help
us to accept moments of doubt or discouragement as readily as we accept times of joy and gladness, knowing that you “will soon come, both hands filled with favors and blessings.”
We ask this through Jesus who sufferings gave way to resurrection. Amen.
BLESSING
May God’s blessing be upon us. Amen
May God’s light lead us in the way of Righteousness. Amen.
May our lives be patterned on Christ Jesus. Amen.