Sunday, March 27, 2011

4th Sunday of Lent: 3 April 2011

Torah: Leviticus 11:1-47
Prophet: Ezekiel 37:1-28
Writing: Job 29:1-30:31
Psalm: 1
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 2
Gospel: Luke 9:57-62
Collect: Heavenly Father who commands the Universe, blessed be your name. Cleanse us by the power of your spirit that we would not stumble, nor cause others to stumble, and teach us to work with all who work in your name that we would not lose our reward, but further evermore the advance of your kingdom. This we ask through Adonai Yeshua haMoshiach who lives and reigns with you and Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen.

Monday: Forgiving Lord, you give us countless chances when we sin, make mistakes, and turn from you. Show us how to be more understanding and forgiving of others. Help us to forgive as we have been forgiven. Amen.

Tuesday: Eternal God, keep us from thinking of ourselves as better than others.
Place in our hearts a spirit of humility, that we might follow the example of Yeshua and serve the interests of others rather than our own. We pray this in his precious name. Amen.

Wednesday: Lord our God, we exile ourselves from your fellowship through sin and
disobedience. In your mercy and grace, you invite us to be restored and
refreshed by the bread of life. In the name of Yeshua. Amen.


Thursday: How easy it is to forsake you, O Lord. Forgive us for not recognizing your bounteous blessings to us. Help us to see the constant reminders of your presence in our lives. Help us to walk in the faith you have given to us through HaMoshiach our Lord. Amen.

Friday: Suffering Lord, during your earthly life you have experienced anguish and shame for the sake of humankind. With strong cries and supplication you implored the name of your heavenly father in the garden of Gethsemane. Endow us with your love that we may be steadfast in our faith. Amen.

Saturday: O God, we confess that we do not spend enough time in silence listening for your still, small voice. Bless us with patience and serenity to hear you calling, and then with eagerness to do your will. Amen.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

3rd Sunday of Lent: 27 March 2011

Torah: Leviticus 10:1-20
Prophet: Ezekiel 36:1-38
Writing: Job 27:1-28:28
Psalm: 111
Epistle: I Corinthians 1:1-39
Gospel: Luke 9:43-56
Collect: Dear Lord, who took up your cross and commanded us to follow you. Help us not to worry about our place in this world, nor that to come, but to learn to humble ourselves in your sight, to pick up our crosses and to follow you. This we ask in the name of Yeshua haMoshiach who lives and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen.

Monday: Heavenly Father, you have commanded us not to murder as all men are made in your image. Help us not to murder others in thought, word or deed that we may truly honor your image. This we ask in the name of the Lord Yeshua who spoke with words of love. Amen.

Heavenly Father, you granted to your Bishop Thomas Cranmer great gifts in ordering the worship and prayer life of the English people, and though he slipped led him to repent of his recantations. Grant that we would truly seek to worship you in the spirit of holiness, and be ready to give up our lives for you. This we ask through Yeshuah, who lives and reins and is worshipped with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen. (red)



Tuesday: Heavenly Father, as you have commanded us not to commit adultery so as to remember your faithfulness to the church, keep us from committing spiritual adultery that we not allow idols or false gods to come between you and us, and keep our marriages strong that they may glorify you. This we ask in the name of the bridegroom who is coming for his church. Amen.

Father, you called Cuthbert from being a shepherd of sheep to being a shepherd of persons. Grant that as we was willing to spread the Gospel in remote and dangerous places, that we too may be willing to proclaim the Gospel in areas of which we might fear and to people of whom we may be afraid. This we ask through Yeshuah haMoshiach, who lives and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen. (white)(transferred from Sunday)


Wednesday: Heavenly Father, stealing from out fellow man is the same as robbing you who created him in your image. Help us never to take what is not ours, and to always seek to treat our neighbour as we ourselves would like to be treated. This we ask in the name of our Lord Yeshua haMoshiach, who died that we too might be good neighbours. Amen.

Heavenly Father, you raised up Gregory to proclaim the Gospel in Armenia and to light up central Asia. Grant us o Lord, people willing to go to the ends of the world for the sake of the Gospel. This we ask through Yeshuah haMoshiach our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen. (white)


Thursday: Heavenly Father, you commanded us not to bear false witness, but we claim to be Christians but do not bear that witness in our lives. Transform our lives that we may faithfully witness to Yeshua and build up His church. This we ask in his most blessed name. Amen.

Friday: Lamb of God, you took away the sins of the world by your sacrifice on the cross. What wondrous love, what good news! You went to the cross silently; may we come to the cross singing your praises in thanksgiving! Amen.

We beseech you o Lord, so fill our hearts with your grace that as we have known the incarnation of your son our Lord Yeshua HaMoshiach by the message of an angel, that so by his cross and passion we may be brought unto the glory of his resurrection. And what we ask for ourselves, we ask for all those for whom Messiah died, that those who sin against you would come to love you, and that those who love you would be drawn nearer to you. To the glory of God the Father, Amen. (Blue)


Saturday: Heavenly Father, you have taught us not to covet, so we would learn to be happy with those things you give us. Help us to be wise in determining our wants, that we may be pleased always with those things and events which you give us, this we ask through Yeshua who gratefully accepted all things from your hand. Amen.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

2nd Sunday of Lent: 20 March 2011

Torah: Leviticus 9:1-23
Prophet: Ezekiel 35:1-15
Writing: Job 25:1-26:14
Psalm:
Epistle: III John
Gospel: Luke 9:22-27
Collect: Abba, you sent Yeshua into the world to be rejected by the authorities and to be crucified for our sins. Guide us O Lord, that we would not be stumbling blocks to Messiah, nor his Kingdom, nor those who seek him. This we ask in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Yeshua haMoshiach, who lives and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting.

Monday: Heavenly Father, you are the Lord our God who delivers us. Help us to remember that this is true, and that it is you who have made us, and not we ourselves. This we ask through your blessed son, Yeshua. Amen.


Tuesday: Heavenly Father, you alone are God, and you alone are worthy of all worship. Help us that we may renounce and reject all false gods, whether ideas, or things, that we may truly love and serve you alone. This we ask through Yeshua haMoshiach who lives and reins with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen.


Wednesday: Heavenly Father, we use your name in cursing, in greetings, and just in passing through. Help us that when we pronounce your glorious name, that we should fear and respect you and your name always. Through Yeshua whose name proclaims your salvation and healing power we pray. Amen


Thursday: Heavenly Father, you have commanded us to set aside a day of rest here on Earth. Help us always to rest in you, to study your word, and to put you first on your day. This we ask in the name of Yeshua who kept the Sabbath to glorify you. Amen.

Heavenly Father; who gave Patrick the strength to persevere and power to forgive his enemies, give us the strength and ability to forgive those who wrong us, and willingness of heart to tell them of the great love of Yeshuah. This we ask in his name, who lives and governs with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen. (white)



Friday: Lord God, in this season of Lent may we be reminded that you seek mercy rather than sacrifice. Instead of denying ourselves in the body, we resolve to share the spiritual food of Yeshua with our neighbour. Amen.

Heavenly Father, you raised up Cyril as Patriarch of Yerushalayim to guide Bishops and Presbyters in their calling to be teachers and ministers of the sacraments. Raise up in this and every generation Bishops and Presbyters who will faithfully instruct your people in practical Christian faith and living. This we ask through the author and perfecter of our faith, Yeshuah haMoshiach our Lord, who livers and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen. (white)



Saturday: Heavenly Father, you commanded us to obey and respect our earthly parents as a preparation for obeying and respecting you. We pray that we would truly learn to honor and respect our parents that we may live long in the land which you have given us. This we ask in the name of him who obeyed and honored his parents, your son our Lord Yeshua haMoshiach. Amen.

Heavenly Father, you raised up Yosef to be a step Father to our Lord Yeshuah haMoshiach. Grant that every father would be as faithful as Yosef in his sacred responsibility of modeling your fatherhood to us. This we ask through the same Yeshuah haMoshiach our Lord, who called Yosef, “father.” Amen. (white)

Sunday, March 6, 2011

First Sunday in Lent: 13 March 2011

Torah: 8:1-36
Prophet: Ezekiel 34:1-31
Writing: Job 22:1-24:25
Pslm:
Epistle: II John
Gospel: Luke 3:23-4:13
Collect: Abba, Father, you sent your son Yeshua into the desert to fast and pray. Grant that we would so grow in the discipline of fasting, prayer, and study, that we would truly grow in knowledge and love of you, that the light of Yeshuah would truly shine through us. This we ask through Yeshua haMoshiach, who lives and reins with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen.

March 7: Dear Lord, you gave Perpetua and her companions boldness to confess your name before the rulers of this world, and courage to encourage one another. Grant us boldness to proclaim your name, and help us to always build up one another in the true faith and perseverance in that faith. This we ask through the author of our faith, Yeshuah haMoshiach who lives and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen (red)

8 March: Lord, as you raised Thomas Aquinus as a theologian in your church, grant wisdom as grace that your church may always have teachers to expound the truth and guide us in faith and knowledge of you, that our faith would not be blind, but based on understanding. This we ask through our great teacher Yeshuah, who lives and reins with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory everlasting. Amen. (white)
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Shrove Tuesday: Lord, grant that we should make such a true confession, that we would truly walk in love and peace with one another that the light of Yeshua would truly shine through us. This we ask through Yeshua haMoshiach who lives and reins with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. (purple before sunset, Lenten array after sunset)

Ash Wednesday: Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing that you have made, and you forgive the sins of all those who are penitent. Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may receive from you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness of our sins. We make our prayer through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, now and forever.

Thursday: Blessed Saviour, you were tempted to turn stones to bread to meet your hunger. Grant that as you turned back Satan’s temptation through Scripture, that we too would truly learn that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God. In your precious name we pray. Amen.

Friday: Blessed Saviour, Satan tempted you to proclaim your kingdom through great miracles, yet, you resisted him and proclaimed the Gospel through suffering. Help us to remember always that we should never tempt you, but follow where you led the way. This we pray in your precious name. Amen.

Saturday: Blessed Saviour, Satan tempted you by offering all the kingdoms of the world, if you would worship him. Help us to cast off all false gods, that we too may worship God alone. In your precious name we pray. Amen.