Day 48 (Through the Bible in a year readings for today: Leviticus 24,25; Mark 1:23-45)
ASH WEDNESDAY
May the words of Psalm 51 help you prepare for worship this Ash Wednesday as we gather in our churches or on line to begin the annual journey of Lent:
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Jesus, I will ponder now
On Your holy Passion;
With Your Spirit me endow
For such meditation.
Grant that I in love and faith
May the image cherish
Of Your suff'ring, pain, and death
That I may not perish.
(Jesus I Will Ponder Now, Lutheran Service Book, CPH, 2006, #440, stanza 1)
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Amen.
Pastor David Paape
ASH WESNESDAY SERVICE ON (2/17/21) ZOOM AT 7 PM
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IN CHURCH ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE and Parking Lot Worship Service 7 pm
both with Holy Communion
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