Friday
Morning
Zion lifted her hands in prayer,
but there was no one to comfort her.
Lamentations 1: 17
2 Collect of the Day Daily Prayer
3 Song of Praise
1 I am the one who has known affliction
under the rod of the wrath of the Lord.
2 It was I whom he led away
and left to walk in darkness,
where no light is.
3 Against me alone he has turned his hand,
and so it is all day long.
4 He has wasted away my flesh and my skin
and broken my bones;
he has built up as walls around me
bitterness and hardship;
5 he has cast me into a place of darkness
like those long dead.
6 He has hemmed me in so that I cannot escape;
he has weighed me down with fetters.
7 Even when I cry out and plead for help
he rejects my prayer.
8 He has barred my road with blocks of stone
and entangled my way.
9 The Lord’s love is surely not exhausted,
nor has his compassion failed;
10 they are new every morning,
so great is his constancy.
11 ‘The Lord,’ I say, ‘is all that I have;
therefore I shall wait for him patiently.’
12 Rejection by the Lord does not last for ever.
He may punish, yet he will have compassion
in the fullness of his unfailing love;
13 he does not willingly afflict
or punish any mortal.
Thanks be to God! Alleluia!
Amen.
4 Psalm(s) said or sung
6 Silence
7 Song of Praise
*verses may be omitted
1 Who could have believed what we have heard?
To whom has the power of the Lord
been revealed?
2 He grew up before the Lord like a young plant
whose roots are in parched ground;
he had no beauty,
no majesty to catch our eyes,
no grace to attract us to him.
3 He was despised, shunned by all,
pain-racked and afflicted by disease;
we despised him, we held him of no account,
an object from which
people turn away their eyes.
4 Yet it was our afflictions he was bearing,
our pain he endured,
while we thought of him as smitten by God,
struck down by disease and misery.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
the chastisement he bore restored us to health
and by his wounds we are healed.
6* We had all strayed like sheep,
each of us going his own way,
but the Lord laid on him the guilt of us all.
7* He was maltreated,
yet he was submissive
and did not open his mouth;
like a sheep led to the slaughter,
like a ewe that is dumb before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8* He was arrested and sentenced
and taken away,
and who gave a thought to his fate –
9* how he was cut off from the world of the living,
stricken to death for my people’s transgression?
10* Yet the Lord took thought
for his oppressed servant
and healed him who had given himself
as a sacrifice for sin.
11* He will enjoy long life
and see his children’s children,
and in his hand the Lord’s purpose will prosper.
12 By his humiliation
my servant will justify many;
after his suffering he will see light
and be satisfied;
it is their guilt he bears.
13 Glory to the Lord of Hosts,
glory to the God of all the earth,
glory to the Holy One of Israel, our Redeemer.
Amen.
9 Thanksgivings and
Intercessions
Prayers for the season
10 Final Collect
Almighty God,
your beloved Son, for love of us,
willingly offered himself to endure the cross,
its agony and shame.
Remove from us all coldness
and cowardice of heart,
and give us grace to take up our cross
and follow him in humility and love;
through the same Jesus Christ
our Saviour and Lord. Amen.
O Christ, the Master Carpenter,
who at the last, through wood and nails,
purchased our whole salvation,
wield well your tools
in the workshop of your world,
so that we who come rough-hewn to your bench
may here be fashioned
to a truer beauty of your hand.
We ask it for your own name’s sake.
Amen.
11 Conclusion
Attend, Lord my God,
to the prayer and supplication of your servant;
listen to the cry and the prayer
which your servant makes before you this day.
Hear in heaven your dwelling
and, when you hear, forgive. 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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