Monday in Holy Week
March 22, 2016
The Lord be with you
A little known fact is that there are actually appointed “propers” for each day during Holy Week. This is so we can have a worship service each day of Holy Week. To be honest, I have personally known only one pastor/church to use all the readings. I expect there are a few more. Most, though, have fewer services. Most Lutheran churches will have a special Palm Sunday/
Sunday of the Passion service, a Maundy Thursday service, a Good Friday service and special Easter services. Many (but I don’t know if I can say most) will have an Easter Vigil service on Holy Saturday.
For those interested, I thought I’d post the propers for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Holy Week. I will post them on the appropriate days. So here are the propers for Monday in Holy Week
INTROIT (Ps. 31:10-11, 13-15; antiphon: Ps. 31:9)
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
For I hear the whispering of many—terror on every side!—
as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, “You are my God.”
My times are in your hand;
rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
COLLECT (prayer) OF THE DAY
Almighty God, grant that in the midst of our failures and weaknesses we may be restored through the passion and intercession of Your only-begotten Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
READINGS
Isaiah 50:5-10
Psalm 36:5-10 (antiphon: v. 9)
Hebrews 9:11-15
Matthew 26:1-27:66
or John 12:1-23
GRADUAL (Heb. 9:12a, c, 15a; Ps. 111:9a)
[Christ] entered once for all into the holy places, by means of his own blood,
thus securing an eternal redemption.
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant,
so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
He sent redemption to his people;
he has commanded his covenant forever.
VERSE (John 12:23b)
The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Easter Blessings,
Pastor Rickert