Matins – Lent 5
29 March
2020
430 My Song Is Love Unknown
1 My song is love unknown,
My Savior’s love to me,
Love to the loveless shown
That they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
My Savior’s love to me,
Love to the loveless shown
That they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
2 He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know.
But, oh, my friend,
My friend indeed,
Who at my need
His life did spend!
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know.
But, oh, my friend,
My friend indeed,
Who at my need
His life did spend!
3 Sometimes they strew His way
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!”
Is all their breath,
And for His death
They thirst and cry.
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!”
Is all their breath,
And for His death
They thirst and cry.
L O Lord, open my lips,
C and my mouth will declare Your praise.
L Make haste, O God, to deliver me;
C make haste to help me, O Lord.
C 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 forever. Amen. Praise
to You, O Christ, Lamb of our salvation.
Psalmody
L The Lord has redeemed His people.
C O come, let us worship Him.
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C O come, let us sing to the
Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into His presence with
thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise. For the Lord is a great God and a great king
above all gods. The deep places of the
earth are in His hand; the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, for He made it, and His hand
formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before
the Lord, our maker. For He is our God, and
we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. 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 forever. Amen.
L The Lord has redeemed His people.
C O come, let us worship Him.
Additional Psalms Psalm 130 (antiphon: v. 7)
1Out of
the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas
for mercy! 3If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4But with you there is
forgiveness, that you may be feared. 5I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6my soul waits for
the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more
than watchmen for the morning. 7O
Israel, hope in the Lord! For with
the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. 8And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Readings from Holy
Scripture –
Life Out of Death
Ezekiel 37:1-14 – God’s Spirit through the Word raises
a dead people (national death) – The hand of
the Lord was upon me, and he
brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord
and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led
me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the
valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can
these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God,
you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O
dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Thus says the Lord God to these
bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will
lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with
skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am
the Lord.” So I
prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and
behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And I
looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them,
and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them. Then he said to me,
“Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says
the Lord God: Come from the four
winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” So I
prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived
and stood on their feet, an exceedingly
great army. Then he said
to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they
say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.’
Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your
graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel. And you
shall know that I am the Lord,
when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I
will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your
own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord;
I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”
P O Lord, have mercy on
us.
C Thanks be to God.
Romans 8:1-11 – The Spirit raises us from death of the flesh to life
as sons of God (spiritual death) –There is
therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of
the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and
death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned
sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things
of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the
things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the
mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is
hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those
who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh
but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does
not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of
righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in
you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your
mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
P O Lord, have mercy on
us.
C Thanks be to God.
P The Holy Gospel
according to St. John, the ninth chapter.
John 11:7-27, 38-53 – Christ raises
Lazarus from death (physical death) – Now when
Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come
to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. So when Martha
heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in
the house. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would
not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will
give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to
him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me,
though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me
shall never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe
that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.” … Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a
cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha,
the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an
odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you
that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the
stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you
have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of
the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he
had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” The
man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his
face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” Many of the
Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in
him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, “What are
we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on like this,
everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our
place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that
year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. Nor do you understand that it is
better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole
nation should perish.” He did not say this of his own accord, but being high
priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for
the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are
scattered abroad. So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
L O Lord, have mercy on us.
C Thanks be to God.
Responsory (Lent)
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L We have an advocate with the Father; Jesus is the
propitiation for our sins.
C He was delivered up to death; He was delivered for the
sins of the people.
L Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and
whose sin is put away.
C He was delivered up to death; He was delivered for the
sins of the people.
L We have an advocate with the Father; Jesus is the
propitiation for our sins.
C He was delivered up to death; He was delivered for the
sins of the people.
430 My Song Is Love Unknown
4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
Yet they at these
Themselves displease
And ’gainst Him rise.
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
Yet they at these
Themselves displease
And ’gainst Him rise.
5 They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they save,
The Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful He
To suff’ring goes
That He His foes
From thence might free.
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they save,
The Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful He
To suff’ring goes
That He His foes
From thence might free.
Sermon
Canticle – Te Deum
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C We praise You, O God; we acknowledge You to be the
Lord.
All
the earth now worships You, the Father everlasting.
To
You all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the pow'rs therein.
To
You cherubim and seraphim continually do cry:
Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth;
heaven
and earth are full of the majesty of Your glory.
The
glorious company of the apostles praise You.
The
goodly fellowship of the prophets praise You.
The
noble army of martyrs praise You.
The
holy Church throughout all the world does acknowledge You:
The
Father of an infinite majesty; Your adorable, true, and only Son;
also
the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.
You
are the king of glory, O Christ;
You
are the everlasting Son of the Father.
When
You took upon Yourself to deliver man,
You
humbled Yourself to be born of a virgin.
When
You had overcome the sharpness of death,
You
opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
You
sit at the right hand of God
in
the glory of the Father.
We
believe that You will come
to
be our judge.
We
therefore pray You to help Your servants,
whom
You have redeemed with Your precious blood.
Make
them to be numbered with Your saints
in
glory everlasting.
O Lord, save Your people and bless Your heritage.
Govern them and lift them up forever.
Day by day we magnify You.
And we worship Your name forever and ever.
Grant, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let Your mercy be upon us, as our trust is in You.
O Lord, in You have I trusted; let me never be confounded.
O Lord, save Your people and bless Your heritage.
Govern them and lift them up forever.
Day by day we magnify You.
And we worship Your name forever and ever.
Grant, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let Your mercy be upon us, as our trust is in You.
O Lord, in You have I trusted; let me never be confounded.
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L Lord,
C have mercy;
L Christ,
C have mercy;
L Lord,
C have
mercy.
Lord’s Prayer
C Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and
forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those
who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom
and the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen.
P The Lord be with you.
C And with your spirit.
Collect for Grace
L O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting
God, You have safely brought us to the beginning of this day. Defend us in the
same with Your mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin,
neither run into any kind of danger, but that all our doings, being ordered by
Your governance, may be righteous in Your sight; through Jesus Christ, Your
Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now
and forever.
C Amen.
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L Let us bless the Lord.
C Thanks be to God.
Benediction
P The grace of our Lord T Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of
the Holy Spirit be with you all.
C Amen.
Hymn to Depart – 430 My Song Is Love Unknown
6 In life no house, no home
My Lord on earth might have;
In death no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav’n was His home
But mine the tomb
Wherein He lay.
My Lord on earth might have;
In death no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav’n was His home
But mine the tomb
Wherein He lay.
7 Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine!
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my friend,
In whose sweet praise
I all my days
Could gladly spend!
No story so divine!
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my friend,
In whose sweet praise
I all my days
Could gladly spend!
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