Week Two
Monday Morning
Greeting and Doxology
PSALM 42
The love God summoned by day sustained my praise by night, my prayer to the living God.
As a deer craves running water,
I thirst for you, my God;
I thirst for God,
the living God.
When will I see your face?
Tears are my steady diet.
Day and night I hear,
“Where is your God?”
I cry my heart out,
I remember better days;
when I entered the house of God,
I was caught in the joyful sound
of pilgrims giving thanks.
Why are you sad, my heart?
Why do you grieve?
Wait for the Lord.
I will yet praise God my savior.
My heart is sad.
Even from Jordan and Hermon,
from the peak of Mizar,
I remember you.
There the deep roars to deep;
your torrents crash over me.
The love God summoned by day
sustained my praise by night,
my prayer to the living God.
I complain to God,
who I thought was rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why am I bent double
under the weight of enemies?
“Their insults grind me to dust.
Day and night they say,
‘Where is your God?’”
Why are you sad, my heart?
Why do you grieve?
Wait for the Lord.
I will yet praise God my savior.
READING Jeremiah 15:15-16
O Lord, remember me and visit me, and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance do not take me away; know that on your account I suffer insult.
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH
Your words are the joy and happiness of my heart.
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
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Thankful for the beauty and goodness
of all creation, we pray:
~ Good and loving God, hear our prayer!
For all who struggle for the basic necessities of life – nourishing food, pure water, fresh air and adequate housing, we pray:
For all who choose to live simply in order to share the earth’s resources with others, we pray:
For all who work farms, cultivate gardens and preserve forests, we pray:
For all who suffer from storms, earthquakes and other natural disasters, we pray:
For all who seek better ways to care for the earth and to harness its energies for the good of the human family, we pray:
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PRAYER
With longing hearts we cry out to you, God of all life. Let mercy fall like gentle rain upon your suffering poor. Let your healing waters bathe the wounds of those broken by disease, rejection or self-hatred. The waters of our baptism made us one with Christ Jesus. May our lives witness the love made flesh in him. 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.