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It’s Good Friday in the Church Calendar, April 18, 2025.

Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office.

Today’s song: Were You There? (African-American spiritual)

Psalm 22:1-11

John 19:16-24

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Collect of the Day

Good Friday, Rite Two

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Scheduling note: There will be no podcast the two weeks after Easter, April 21 to May 2, 2025.

It’s Maundy Thursday in the Church Calendar, April 17, 2025.

Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office.

Today’s song: Nothing But the Blood (Robert Lowry - 1876)

Psalm 116:1, 10-17

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

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Collect of the Day

Maundy Thursday, Rite Two

Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

It’s Wednesday in Holy Week in the Church Calendar, April 16, 2025.

Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office.

Today’s song: Is He Worthy? (Andrew Peterson, Ben Shive)

Psalm 70

John 13:21-32

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Collect of the Day

Wednesday in Holy Week, Rite Two

Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.