23B - Lent 5B — 24B - Palm Sunday OR 25B Monday in Holy Week
Be gracious, O LORD,
for I am in distress;
my eye is wasting with anger,
my inner being as well as my stomach
For my life is consumed by grief
and my years in groaning.
My strength fails because of my distress
and my bones become weak.
Because of my oppressors I am a disgrace;
to my neighbours, I’m a disaster,
to my acquaintances, a cause for trembling .
Seeing me in the street they flee from me
I am forgotten like one who is dead,
and have become like a broken pot.
For I have heard the whispering of the crowd, terror all around –
scheming together, plotting to take my life.
But I – I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, “You are my God.”
My days are in your hands;
snatch me from the hand of my enemies and pursuers.
Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love.
OFFERING
Source of life,
Word of life,
Breath of life
console us and keep us
as we live each day following the way of Jesus.
May the gifts which we offer
and those which the Spirit gives to each of us,
be joined to serve this broken world.
And so may we await with hope
the new day of the Lord. Amen
Click here for some ideas for worship in Lent and Easter gleaned from the pages of “On the Move” (now out of print) which was published by the Joint Board of Christian Education, Melbourne, Australia.
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
(A prayer to gather the spoken and silent concerns/joys/thanks expressed by the congregation and lead into a more structured Intercession with connection to the lections for the day. Sometimes this prayer will borrow lightly from other sources e.g. Uniting in Worship 2 or publications of the Iona Community.)
God of all grace,
in you is hope: hope which has endured throughout every age.
In that hope we remember before you now
those we have named on our lips and in the silence of our hearts…
By your Word and your Spirit
help us bring consolation to those know to us,
return to our memory those whom we have forgotten
and be present to those who have no-one …
(The Prayers of the People continue)
Looking for contemporary music and song resources?
Try David MacGregor’s Together to Celebrate
Or metrical psalms? Try Dale A. Schoening’s Sing the Psalms
HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR PASSION SUNDAY – YEAR B |
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As pants the hart for cooling streams | TIS 25 | AHB 29 |
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow | TIS 231 | AHB 170 |
Hail to the Lord’s annointed | TIS 275 | AHB 203 |
Hail! our once despised Jesus | TIS 373 | AHB 295 |
Let all be one in mind and heart | TIS 247 | AHB 186 |
My song is love unknown | TIS 341 | AHB 257 |
Nature with open volume stands | TIS 343 | AHB 259 |
O changless Christ, for ever new | TIS 254 | SA 69 |
Ride on, ride on, in majesty | TIS 348 | AHB 264 |
The glory of our King was seen | TIS 353 | AHB 272 |
The King of Glory comes | TIS 279 | AHB 212 |
There is a green hill far away | TIS 350 | AHB 266 |
Trotting, trotting through Jerusalem | TIS 244 | AHB 187 |
Ye gates lift up your heads | TIS 12 | AHB 286 |
Isaiah 50:4-9a |
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God has spoken to his people, hallelujah | TIS 636 | SA 39 |
Master, speak, thy servant heareth | TIS 597 | AHB 516 |
O breath of God, breathe on us now | TIS 408 | AHB 321 |
O sacred head, sore wounded | TIS 339 | AHB 170 |
Sing praise and thanksgiving, | TIS 107 | AHB 25 |
Thank you for giving me the morning | TIS 162 | AHB 114 |
Thank you, thank you, Lord | TIS 170 | SA 80 |
Psalm 31:9-16 |
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By your saving power deliver me | TIS 19 | |
Great God, we sing that mighty hand | TIS 124 | AHB 52 |
Have faith in God, my heart | TIS 619 | AHB 552 |
Philippians 2:5-11 |
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All hail the power of Jesus’ name | TIS 224 | AHB 159 |
And can it be that I should gain an interest | TIS 209 | AHB 138 |
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow | TIS 231 | AHB 170 |
Filled with the Spirit’s power, with one accord | TIS 411 | AHB 328 |
God of all power and truth and grace | TIS 567 | AHB 477 |
Hark the herald angels sing | TIS 303 | AHB 227 |
Holy Father, God of might | TIS 622 | AHB 398 |
I will sing the wondrous story | TIS 233 | AHB 173 |
Jesus Christ is risen today | TIS 362 | AHB 280 |
Jesus the name high over all | TIS 218 | AHB 150 |
Join all the glorious names of wisdom | TIS 205 | AHB 135 |
Let all be one in mind and heart | TIS 247 | AHB 186 |
Let earth & heaven combine | TIS 305 | AHB 229 |
May the mind of Christ my Saviour | TIS 609 | AHB 537 |
Morning Glory, starlit sky | TIS 174 | |
My heart & voice I raise | TIS 225 | AHB 160 |
My heart is full of Christ, and longs | TIS 214 | AHB 143 |
Now is eternal life | TIS 385 | AHB 305 |
O love how deep, how broad, how high! | TIS 194 | AHB 6 |
O Spirit of the living God | TIS 405 | AHB 318 |
Praise and thanksgiving Father we offer | TIS 627 | AHB 569 |
Praise to the Holiest in the height | TIS 141 | AHB 79 |
Soldiers of Christ arise | TIS 570 | AHB 481 |
The advent of our God | TIS 271 | AHB 198 |
We have a gospel to proclaim | TIS 245 | AHB 189 |
Mark 14:1—15:47 |
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Christ is the world’s light, he and none other | TIS 246 | AHB 191 |
From heaven you came, helpless babe | TIS 256 | |
Hail our once-despised Jesus | TIS 373 | AHB 295 |
Lift high the cross | TIS 351 | AHB 271 |
My heart and voice I raise | TIS 225 | AHB 160 |
Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle | TIS 331 | AHB 249 |
The head that once was crowned with thorns | TIS 378 | AHB 301 |
When I survey the wondrous cross | TIS 342 | AHB 258 |