Time in the Word
Father, Into Thy Hands
I commend My Spirit
Readings & Prayers for
Holy Week
April 11-16, 2022
Monday, 11 April 2022– Monday
of Holy Week – Isaiah 50:5-10 - My sin and the Savior’s
obedience
The Antiphon: Continue Your love to those who know you,
Your righteousness to the upright in heart. – Psalm 36:10
Prayers for Monday – Grant,
we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who amid so many adversities do fail
through our own infirmities, may be restored through the Passion and
intercession of Thine only-begotten Son.
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus
Christ chose to suffer pain before going up to joy, and crucifixion before
entering into glory, mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross,
may find this path to be the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ Your
Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now
and forever.
Tuesday, 12 April 2022– Tuesday
of Holy Week – Jeremiah 11:18-20 – The plot against the Lord’s
anointed
The Antiphon: In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me
never be put to shame. – Psalm 71:1
Prayers for Tuesday – Almighty
and everlasting God, grant us grace to pass through this holy time of our
Lord’s Passion that we may obtain the pardon of our sins.
Almighty and everlasting God,
grant us grace so to pass through this holy time of our Lord’s Passion that we
may receive the pardon of our sins; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever.
Wednesday, 13 April 2022–
Wednesday of Holy Week – Isaiah 62:11; 63:1-7 – God’s day of vengeance
and redemption
The Antiphon: Hasten, O God, to save me, O Lord, come
quickly to help me. – Psalm 70:1
Prayers for Wednesday – Grant,
we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who for our evil deeds are continually
afflicted may mercifully be relieved by the Passion of Thine only–begotten Son.
Merciful and everlasting God
the Father, who did not spare Your only Son but delivered Him up for us all
that He might bear our sins on the cross, grant that our hearts may be so fixed
with steadfast faith in our Savior that we may not fear the power of any
adversaries; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns
with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Thursday, 14 April 2022– Maundy
Thursday – 1 Corinthians 11:23-32 – A new covenant
The Antiphon: I will lift up the cup of salvation and call
on the name of the Lord. – Psalm 116:13
Prayer for Maundy Thursday – O
Lord God, who hast left unto us in a wonderful Sacrament a memorial of Thy
Passion, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so use this Sacrament of Thy body
and blood that the fruits of Thy redemption may continually be manifest in us.
Friday, 15 April 20122– Good
Friday – Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12 – The suffering and glory of the servant Christ
The Antiphon: O Lord, be not far off; O my Strength, come
quickly to help me. – Psalm 22:19
Prayer for Good Friday – Almighty
God, we beseech Thee, graciously to behold this Thy family, for which our Lord
Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked
men and to suffer death upon the cross.
Saturday, 16 April 2022– Holy
Saturday, Easter Eve – 1 Peter 3:17-22 – The victory lap through Hell
The Antiphon: From the depths of the grace I called for
help, and You listened to my cry. – Jonah 2:2b
Prayers for Easter Eve – O
God, who didst enlighten this most holy night with the glory of the Lord’s
resurrection, preserve in all Thy people the spirit of adoption which Thou hast
given so that, renewed in body and soul, they may perform unto Thee a pure
service.
Abide with us, Lord, for it
is toward evening, and the day is far spent. Abide with Your whole Church.
Abide with us in the end of the day, in the end of our life, in the end of the
world. Abide with Your grace and goodness, with You holy Word and Sacrament,
with Your strength and blessing. Abide with us when the night of affliction and
temptation comes upon us, the night of fear and despair when death shall come.
Abide with us all the faithful through time and eternity.
Sources:
THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL © 1940 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO
LUTHERAN WORSHIP © 1982 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO
LUTHERAN SEVICE BOOK LECTIONARY © 2006 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO
Schnorr von Carolsfeld woodcuts © WELS Permission
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