SECOND LENT

Remember your compassion, O Lord,
and your merciful love, for they are from of old.
Let not our enemies exult over us.
Redeem us, O God of Israel, from all our distress.

COLLECT
O God, who have commanded us
to listen to your beloved Son,
be pleased, we pray,
to nourish us inwardly by your word,
that, with spiritual sight made pure,
we may rejoice to behold your glory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

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FIRST LENT

                                                                   

The First Sunday in Lent

The Collect

O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

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A LENTEN PRAYER

PSALM 51

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

² Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
³ For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
⁴ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
⁵ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
⁶ Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

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¹⁵ O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

PREPARE * LENT * PREPARE

                                                             

                                                              The discipline of Lent

                                              STUDY SERVICE SILENCE

WHIMSY

                             Tell me where is the whimsy in it and I will show you a love worth having.
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Whither has whimsy fled and why?

GEOFFREY MADAN'S JOURNAL

“Bring me a beaker of wine that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” Aristophanes

 

Excerpts 

Who loves, will not be adored.

The sleep of friendship is its death.

                        Richard Duppa (1829)

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don’t dine.

                            Henry James, The Given Case

Roman Catholics claim to be infallible; Anglicans to be always right.

                   Steele

Love is respectful and timorous.

                   Dr. Johnson

People are entitled to shout when they are drunk. That is not being disorderly.

A diary would have been conversation if it could.