CW* Sunday before Lent

The Sunday next before Lent

https://almanac.oremus.org/2023-02-19

Green

Principal Service
Exodus 24.12-18
Psalm 2 or
Psalm 99
2 Peter 1.16-21
Matthew 17.1-9

Third Service
Psalm 72
Exodus 34.29-35
2 Corinthians 4.3-6

Second Service
Psalm 84
Ecclesiasticus 48.1-10 or
2 Kings 2.1-12
Matthew 17.9-23
(or 1-23)

Collect

Almighty Father,
whose Son was revealed in majesty
before he suffered death upon the cross:
give us grace to perceive his glory,
that we may be strengthened to suffer with him
and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

Holy God,
we see your glory in the face of Jesus Christ:
may we who are partakers at his table
reflect his life in word and deed,
that all the world may know his power to change and save.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Additional Collect

Holy God,
you know the disorder of our sinful lives:
set straight our crooked hearts,
and bend our wills to love your goodness and your glory
in Jesus Christ our Lord.

BCP: Quinquagesima

BCP Holy Communion

Genesis 9.8-17
Psalm 77.11-end
BCP Collect

O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ’s sake.