Week Four
Monday Morning

Greeting and Doxology


PSALM 103 Bless God, who fills your life with richness and gives you an eagle’s strength.
My soul, bless the Lord,
bless God’s holy name!
My soul, bless the Lord,
hold dear all God’s gifts!

Bless God, who forgives your sin
and heals every illness,
who snatches you from death
and enfolds you with tender care,
who fills your life with richness
and gives you an eagle’s strength.

The Lord, who works justice
and defends the oppressed,
teaches Moses and Israel
divine ways and deeds.

The Lord is tender and caring,
slow to anger, rich in love.
God will not accuse us long,
nor bring our sins to trial,
nor exact from us in kind
what our sins deserve.

As high as heaven above earth,
so great is God’s love for believers.
as far as east from west,
so God removes our sins.

As tender as father to child,
so gentle is God to believers.
The Lord knows how we are made,
remembers we are dust.

Our days pass by like grass,
our prime like a flower in bloom.
A wind comes, the flower goes,
empty now its place.

God’s love is from all ages,
God’s justice beyond all time
for believers of each generation:
those who keep the covenant,
who take care to live the law.

The Lord reigns from heaven,
rules over all there is.
Bless the Lord, you angels,
strong and quick to obey,
attending to God’s word.

Bless the Lord, you powers,
eager to serve God’s will.
Bless the Lord, you creatures,
everywhere under God’s rule.
My soul, bless the Lord!

READING 2 Samuel 22: 26-29

With the loyal you show yourself loyal; with the blameless you show yourself blameless; wit the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.

You deliver a humble people, but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down. Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord, the Lord lightens my darkness.

CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH
In you we can do all things; of ourselves we can do nothing.

Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,
who shepherds the people and sets them free.

God raises from David’s house
a child with power to save.
Through the holy prophets
God promised in ages past
to save us from enemy hands,
from the grip of all who hate us.

The Lord favored our ancestors
recalling the sacred covenant,
the pledge to our ancestor Abraham,
to free us from our enemies,
so we might worship without fear
and be holy and just all our days.

And you child, will be called
Prophet of the Most High,
for you will come to prepare
a pathway for the Lord
by teaching the people salvation
through forgiveness of their sin.

Out of God’s deepest mercy
a dawn will come from on high,
light for those shadowed by death,
a guide for our feet on the way to peace.


INTERCESSIONS

O God of mercies, as we begin our day we place our needs in your hands and we pray:
~Merciful God hear our prayer. For all those who minister to your people, that they may be blessed with strength and courage, we pray:
For ourselves and all others in need of mercy, that we may experience your gentle compassion, we pray:
For victims of violence and other forms of abuse, that they may be healed by your tender mercy, we pray:
For the young who are searching for meaning in their lives, that they may see in our lives Christ’s love for them, we pray:
For all those who have died, especially __________, that they may be united with you, we pray:

THE LORD’S PRAYER

PRAYER

O God, you are rich in love and tenderness. Give us all we need this day so that we may follow the example of Jesus. Help us to hear and to respond to the pleas for mercy in our land. May we praise your forever and ever. Amen

BLESSING
May the Spirit of God find a home in us. Amen
May the Spirit of God animate us. Amen
May the Spirit of God create new hearts in us. Amen