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[Angelwings]

Wednesday Morning Prayer


Psalm 24 (23)
The Lord's is the earth and its fullness,
the world and all its peoples.
It is he who set it on the seas;
on the waters he made it firm.

Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
The man with clean hands and pure heart,
who desires not worthless things,
(who has not sworn so as to deceive his neighbor.)

He shall receive blessings from the Lord
and reward from the God who saves him.
These are the ones who seek him,
seek the face of the God of Jacob.

O gates, lift high your heads;
grow higher, ancient doors.
Let him enter, the king of glory!

Who is the king of glory?
The Lord, the mighty, the valiant,
the Lord, the valiant in war.

O gates, lift high your heads;
grow higher, ancient doors.
Let him enter, the king of glory!

Who is he, the king of glory?
He, the Lord of armies,
he is the king of glory.

Glory be 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

Let us worship before the Lord, our maker.

[Pause and reflect on the previous psalm.]
ANT: O Lord, in your light we see light itself.

Psalm 36 (35)
Sin whispers to sinners
in the depths of their hearts.
There is no fear of God before his eyes.

He so flatter himselve in his mind
that he knows not his guilt.
In his mouth is mischief and deceit.
All wisdom is gone.

He plots the defeat of goodness
as he lies in bed.
He has set his feet on evil ways,
he clings to what is evil.

Your love, Lord, reaches to heaven,
your truth to the skies.
Your justice is like God's mountain,
your judgments like the deep.

To man and beasts you give protection.
O Lord, how precious is your love.
My God, the children of the earth
find refuge in the shelter of your wings.

They feast on the riches of your house;
they drink from the stream of your delight.
In you is the source of life
and in your light we see light.

Keep on loving those who know you,
doing justice for upright hearts.
Let the foot of the proud not crush me
nor the hand of the wicked cast me out.

See how the evildoers fall!
Flung down, they shall never arise.

Glory be 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

BLESSING
May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen