Sunday
Morning
Awake sleeper;
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine upon you.
Ephesians 5: 14
2 Collect of the Day Daily Prayer
3 Song of Praise
1 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to announce
good news to the humble,
2 to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to captives,
release to those in prison;
3 to comfort all who mourn,
to give them garlands instead of ashes,
4 oil of gladness instead of mourners’ tears,
a garment of splendour
for the heavy heart.
5 They will be called trees of righteousness,
planted by the Lord for his adornment.
6 Let me rejoice in the Lord
with all my heart,
let me exult in my God;
7 for he has robed me in deliverance
and arrayed me in victory.
8 As the earth puts forth her blossom
or plants in the garden burst into flower,
9 so will the Lord God
make his victory and renown
blossom before the nations.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.
4 Psalm(s) said or sung
6 Silence
7 Song of Praise
1 You have come to mount Zion,
the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem,
to myriads of angels,
2 to the full concourse
and assembly of the firstborn
who are enrolled in heaven,
3 and to God the judge of all,
and to the spirits of good men made perfect,
4 and to Jesus
the mediator of a new covenant,
whose sprinkled blood has better things to say
than the blood of Abel.
5 The kingdom we are given is unshakeable;
let us therefore give thanks to God for it,
6 and so worship God
as he would be worshipped,
with reverence and with awe;
giving glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit,
one God, glorious for ever. Amen.
9 Thanksgivings and
Intercessions
Prayers for the season
10 Final Collect
God our Father,
at the first creation
you set the world’s corner-stone in place,
while the morning stars sang together
and the angels of God all shouted for joy.
In the new creation
your grace has dawned upon the world
with healing for all.
May Christ, the sun of righteousness,
shine in our hearts for ever
and draw us to that light
where you live in radiant glory;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
11 Conclusion
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God,
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
be with us all. Amen.
Extracts from the Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland 2nd ed. 1996 ISBN 0 7152 0721 0 © Panel on Worship of the Church of Scotland 1994
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