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Year B - Lent 4

Year B

Lent4

Collect48(Text shown)

Post Communion Prayer49(Text shown)

Principle Service(Text shown)

Numbers 21. 4-9

Psalm 107. 1-3, 17-22 or 107. 1-9

Ephesians 2. 1-10

John 3. 14-21

Second Service(Text not shown)

Psalm 13; 14

Exodus 6. 2-13

Romans 5. 1-11

If the Second Service is a Eucharist, the Gospel is:

John 12. 1-8

Third Service(Text not shown)

Psalm 27

1 Samuel 16. 1-13

John 9. 1-25

1984(Text not shown)

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Collects and Post Communion Prayers from the book New Calendar and the Collects.

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Pointed Psalms from the book Daily Prayer.

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Quotations and Psalms fromThe New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

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Collect 48

1984 Prayer Book

Almighty Father, look upon thy family the Church, that refreshed and strengthened by thy grace, we may persevere in the way of salvation, and find in thee our joy and our peace; through thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Contemporary

Lord God,

whose blessed Son our Saviour

gave his back to the smiters

and did not hide his face from shame:

give us grace to endure the sufferings of this present time

with sure confidence in the glory that shall be revealed;

through Jesus Christ our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion Prayer 49

Loving God,

as a mother feeds her children at the breast

you feed us in this sacrament with the food and drink of eternal life:

help us who have tasted your goodness

to grow in grace within the household of faith;

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Numbers 21. 4-9

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.’ Then the Lord sent poisonousserpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, ‘We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.’ So Moses prayed for the people.And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a poisonousserpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.’ So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

Psalm 107. 1-3, 17-22 or 107. 1-9

Biblical text

Psalm 107. 1-3, 17-22

Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction; they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress; he sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction. Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind. And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices, and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.

Psalm 107. 1-9

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress; he led them by a straight way, until they reached an inhabited town. Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind. For he satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

Psalm 107. 1-3, 17-22 or 107. 1-9

Pointed Psalm

Psalm 107. 1-3, 17-22

O give thanks to the Lord, for / he is / gracious :

for his steadfast / love en/dures for / ever.

Let the redeemed of the / Lord / say this :

those he redeemed / from the / hand of the / enemy,

And gathered out of the lands from the east and / from the / west :

from the / north and / from the / south.

Some were foolish and took a re/bellious / way :

and were plagued be/cause of / their wrong/doing.

Their soul abhorred all / manner of / food :

and drew / near to the / gates of / death.

Then they cried to the Lord / in their / trouble :

and he delivered / them from / their dis/tress.

He sent forth his / word and / healed them :

and / saved them / from des/truction.

Let them give thanks to the Lord / for his / goodness :

and the / wonders he / does • for his / children.

Let them offer him / sacrifices of / thanksgiving :

and tell of his / acts with / shouts of / joy.

Psalm 107. 1-9

O give thanks to the Lord, for / he is / gracious :

for his steadfast / love en/dures for / ever.

Let the redeemed of the / Lord / say this :

those he redeemed / from the / hand of the / enemy,

And gathered out of the lands from the east and / from the / west :

from the / north and / from the / south.

Some went astray in / desert / wastes :

and found no / path • to a / city to / dwell in.

Hungry / and / thirsty :

their / soul was / fainting with/in them.

So they cried to the Lord / in their / trouble :

and he delivered / them from / their dis/tress.

He set their feet on the / right / way :

till they / came • to a / city to / dwell in.

Let them give thanks to the Lord / for his / goodness :

and the / wonders he / does • for his / children.

For he satisfies the / longing / soul :

and fills the / hungry / soul with / good.

Ephesians 2. 1-10

You were dead through the trespasses and sinsin which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God - not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

John 3. 14-21

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. ‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.’

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