The sign of the cross may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism.

In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

Element	Psalm 56:1–4a; antiphon: v. 11
11In God I trust — I'm not afraid;
what can man do to me?
1Be kind and help me, O God, men trample on me. They fight all day long and they oppress me;
2all day long my enemies hound me, as many fight against me. O Most High, 3when I'm afraid, I put my trust in You. —4 In God - I praise His Word In God I trust — I'm not afraid; what can flesh do to me?
11In God I trust — I'm not afraid;
what can man do to me?

Rubric

In the morning, O Lord, You hear my voice;
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for You and watch.

My mouth is filled with Your praise,
and with Your glory all the day.

O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare Your praise.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

A hymn, canticle, or psalm may be sung or spoken.

611 Chief of Sinners Though I Be

Tune and text: Public domain

Reading	Isaiah 62:11—63:7
11The LORD announces to the most distant part of the world:
“Tell the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your salvation is coming. See, His reward is with Him,
and what He has earned goes ahead of Him.'” 12They will be called the holy people whom the LORD redeemed, and you will be called "Sought" and “A-City-Not-Forsaken.”
63 Who is this that comes from Edom, bright in His garments from Bozrah, this One so splendid in His dress, bending forward with great strength? “I am He Who speaks in righteousness, mighty to save!" 2Why are Your clothes red and Your garments like those of
one trampling in the wine trough? 3“I have trampled alone in the winepress: not one of My people was with Me. I trod on them in My anger and trampled on them in My fury; their life blood spurted on My clothes, so I stained all My clothes. 4I have planned a day of vengeance; the year when I redeem is here. I look, but there's no one to help Me. I shudder, but there's no one to support Me. So My own arm wins Me the victory; My fury supports Me. 6In My anger I stamp on people; in My fury I smash them and let their lifeblood flow down to the ground.”
7I will tell about the LORD's kindness, about the LORD's deeds that should be praised, according to everything the LORD did for us, His great good work for the people of Israel, which He did for them according to His mercies and great kindness. 

Romans 5:6-11
6At the right time, while we were still helpless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7A man will hardly die for a righteous person; oh, for a kind person someone may dare to die. 8But God shows how He loves us by this, that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. 9Now that His blood has declared us righteous, we are all the more certain He will save us from God's anger. 10If while we were His enemies we were made God's friends by the death of His Son, now that we are His friends we are all the more certain He will save us by His life. 11More than that, we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has now given us this friendship.
Luke 22-23
22 The Festival of Bread Without Yeast, called the Passover, was near. 2Then the ruling priests and the Bible scholars were looking for a way to kill Him. They were afraid of the people.
3Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the twelve. 4He went to the ruling priests and the captains of the temple and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus to them. 5They were delighted and agreed to give him some money. "He promised to do it and so was looking for a chance to betray Him when He was away from the crowd.
7Then came the day of the Festival of Bread Without Yeast, when the Passover lamb had to be killed. 8Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go, get the Passover ready for us to eat.”
9“Where do You want us to get it ready?” they asked Him.
10“Go into the city," He told them, “and you'll meet a man carrying a jar of water. 11Follow him into the house he enters, and tell the owner of the house: "The Teacher asks you, “Where is the room in which I can eat the Passover with My disciples?” ” 12 He will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Get things ready there."
13They went and found it as He had told them, and they got the Passover ready.
14When the hour had come, He and the apostles reclined for the meal. 15“I have very much longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer," He said to them. 16“I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in God's kingdom.” 17Then He was handed a cup, and He gave thanks. “Take this,” He said, “and share it.”

18“I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until God's kingdom comes.”
19Jesus took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this to remember Me."
20He did the same with the cup when the supper was over, saying, “This cup is the new testament in My blood, poured out for you.”
21“Look, the hand of him who is betraying Me is with Me on the table. 22The Son of Man is going as it is decreed, but woe to that man who is betraying Him."
23They started to discuss with one another which of them was going to do this.

24The disciples also started to quarrel among themselves as to which of them was considered the greatest.
25“The kings of the nations lord it over them,” He told them, “and their rulers call themselves benefactors. 26With you it's different. The greatest among you should become like the youngest, and one who leads should be like one who serves. 27Who is greater, the one who reclines to eat or the one who serves? Isn't it the one who reclines to eat? But I am among you as one who serves.
28"You have stood by Me in the troubles that have tested Me. 29As My Father has appointed Me to be King, so I appoint you 30to eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and to sit on thrones and rule the twelve tribes of Israel.”

31“Simon, Simon,” said the Lord, "you know Satan has begged to have all of you to sift you like wheat. 32But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you come back, strengthen your fellow disciples.”
33“Lord,” he told Him, “I'm ready to go to prison and to die with You.”
34“I tell you, Peter,” He said, “the rooster will not crow tonight until you deny three times that you know Me.”
35Then He asked them, “When I sent you out without purse, bag, or shoes, you didn't lack anything, did you?”
“Not a thing!” they answered.
36“But now,” He told them, “if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag. And if you don't have a sword, sell your garment and buy one. 37It is written: 'He will be counted among criminals,' and I tell you, that must happen to Me. Whatever is written about Me must happen!"
38“Lord, look, here are two swords!” they said. "It is enough,” He told them.

39Jesus went out and as usual came to the Mount of Olives. The disciples went with Him. 40When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you may not be tempted.”
41 He withdrew from them about as far as you'd throw a stone, knelt, and prayed, 42“Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; but let it not be as I want it but as You want it.”
43An angel from heaven appeared to Him and gave Him strength. 44And as He began to struggle inwardly, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like thick drops of blood falling on the ground.
45After praying, He got up, went to the disciples, and found them sleeping because they were overcome with sadness. 46“Why are you sleeping?" He asked them. "Get up and pray that you may not be tempted."

47While He was still talking, the crowd came. The one called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them, and he came close to Jesus to kiss Him.
48“Judas,” Jesus asked him, “are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”
49The men around Jesus, seeing what was going to happen, asked, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” 50And one of them struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear.
51But Jesus said, “Let them do it. No more of this!" And, touching the ear, He healed him.
52Then Jesus said to the ruling priests, captains of the temple, and elders who had come for Him, “You came out for Me with swords and clubs as if I were a robber! 53Day after day I was with you in the temple, and you laid no hands on Me. But this is your time when darkness rules.”
54They arrested Him, led Him away, and took Him to the high priest's palace.

55The men had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and as they sat together, Peter sat among them. 56A maid saw him sitting in the light of the fire, and looking straight at him, she said, "He, too, was with him."
57But he denied and said, “I don't know Him, woman.” 58A little later someone else looked at him and said, “You're one of them.” “Man, I'm not!" Peter said.
59About an hour later another insisted: "Certainly he was with him. Why, he's a Galilean!”
60“Man, I don't know what you're talking about,” Peter said.
Just then, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 61Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the Lord telling him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” 62So he went outside and cried bitterly.
The Jewish Council Condemns Jesus
63The men who were holding Him were making fun of Him as they struck Him. 64They covered His face and kept asking Him: "Prophesy! Who hit you?" 65And so they went on insulting Him in many other ways.
66In the morning all the elders of the people, ruling priests, and Bible scholars had a meeting. They brought Jesus before their court and asked, 67“Are you the Christ? Tell us.”
“If I tell you, you won't believe Me,” He said to them. 68“And if I ask you a question, you won't answer. 69But from now on the Son of Man will be sitting at the right of God's power."
70“Are you, then, the Son of God?” all of them asked. He answered them, “As you say: I am He.”
71“Why do we need any more testimony?" they asked. “We've heard him say it ourselves.”
23 Then the whole crowd of them got up and took Him to Pilate.

2Then they started to accuse Him: “We found that he makes our people disloyal, keeps them from paying taxes to the emperor, and says he is Christ, a king."
3Pilate asked Him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” "Yes,” He answered him.
4Pilate told the ruling priests and the crowd, “I don't find this man guilty of anything."
Before Herod
5The priests and the crowd kept urging him: “He stirs up the people by teaching all over the country of the Jews, beginning in Galilee and coming here."
6When Pilate heard that, he asked, “Is the man from Galilee?” 7And when he found out Jesus came from the country governed by Herod, he sent Him to Herod, who also was in Jerusalem at that time.
8Herod was very glad to see Jesus. For a long time he wanted to see Him because he was hearing about Him, and he was expecting to see Jesus do some miracle. 9He asked Him a lot of questions, but Jesus didn't answer him. 10The ruling priests and the Bible scholars were standing there and accusing Him vehemently.
11So Herod and his soldiers treated Him with contempt and made fun of Him. They put a splendid garment on Him and then sent Him back to Pilate. 12On that day Herod and Pilate became friends. Before this they had been enemies.
13Then Pilate called the ruling priests, the other leaders, and the people together. 14“You brought me this man as one who turns the people against the government,” he told them. “And now look, I've examined this man before you and found him innocent of the things you accuse him of. 15And Herod did, too, because he sent him back to us. You see, he hasn't done anything to deserve death. 16So I'm going to teach him a lesson and let him go.”£

18Then the whole crowd yelled: “Away with him. Free Barabbas for us. 19He had been put in prison for a revolt that had taken place in the city and for murder.
20But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, so he called to them again. 21But they kept yelling: “Crucify, crucify him!”
22 And Pilate spoke to them a third time: "Why, what wrong has he done? I haven't found anything in him that deserves death. So I will have him whipped and let him go.”
23But they kept pressing him with loud shouts, demanding that He be crucified, and their shouts were overpowering Pilate. 24Then Pilate decided what they demanded should be done: 25he let them have Barabbas, who had been put in prison for revolt and murder, but whom they were asking for, and he handed Jesus over to them to do what they wanted.
On the Way
26As they led Jesus away, they took hold of Simon, a man from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and they laid the cross on him, to carry it behind
Jesus.
27A large crowd of the people followed Him. The women in the crowd were beating their chests and weeping over Him. 28Turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don't cry over Me, but cry over yourselves and your children, 29because the time is coming when people will say:
‘Happy are — the women who couldn't have children, the wombs that didn't bear,
and the breasts that didn't nurse.' 30Then people will say -to the mountains: 'Fall on us!
and to the hills: 'Cover us!
31If this is done to the green tree, what will be done to a dry one?” 32Two others, who were criminals, were also taken away to be put to death with Him.

33When they came to the place called Skull, they crucified Him there with the criminals, one at His right and the other at His left.
34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; they don't know what they are doing.”g
They divided His clothes among them by throwing lots for them.
35The people stood there watching. The rulers were sneering, “He saved others. Let him save himself if he's the Christ, God's chosen One.” 36The soldiers also made fun of Him by going up to Him and offering Him sour wine. 37“If you're the King of the Jews,” they said, “save yourself.”
38There was a notice placed above Him: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
A Robber Turns to Jesus
39One of the crucified criminals was mocking Him, “Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
40But the other warned him, “Aren't you afraid of God?” he asked him. “You're condemned just as He is. 410 ur punishment is just. We're getting what we deserve for what we've done. But this One has done nothing wrong."
42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”
43“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to him, “today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

44It was about twelve o'clock when darkness came over the whole country, because the sun stopped shining, and the darkness lasted until three in the afternoon. 45The curtain in the temple was torn in two.
46Then Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.” After He said this, He died.
47When the captain saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “This Man certainly was righteous.” 48When all the people who had come there to see this saw what happened, they beat their chests and turned back. 49All His friends were standing at a distance, also the women who had followed Him from Galilee and now were watching these things.

50 There was a man by the name of Joseph, a member of the Jewish council, a good and righteous man 51who had not voted for their plan and action. He was from Arimathea, a Jewish town, and was looking forward to God's kingdom.
52He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. 53He took it down, wrapped it in some linen, and laid it in a grave cut in the rock, in which no one had yet been laid. 54It was the day of preparation, and the day of rest was just starting.
55The women who had come with Him from Galilee, following close behind, saw the grave and how His body was laid. 56Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes. But on Saturday they rested according to the commandment.

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Apostles’ Creed
C	I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
     maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
     who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
     born of the virgin Mary,
     suffered under Pontius Pilate,
     was crucified, died and was buried.
     He descended into hell.
     The third day He rose again from the dead.
     He ascended into heaven
     and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
     From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
     the holy Christian Church,
          the communion of saints,
     the forgiveness of sins,
     the resurrection of the body,
     and the life T everlasting. Amen.

The Litany
L	O Lord,
C	have mercy.
L	O Christ,
C	have mercy.
L	O Lord,
C	have mercy.
L	O Christ,
C	hear us.
L	God the Father in heaven,
C	have mercy.
L	God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
C	have mercy.
L	God the Holy Spirit,
C	have mercy.
L	Be gracious to us.
C	Spare us, good Lord.
L	Be gracious to us.
C	Help us, good Lord.
 
L	From all sin, from all error, from all evil;
From the crafts and assaults of the devil; from sudden and evil death;
From pestilence and famine; from war and bloodshed; from sedition and from rebellion;
From lightning and tempest; from all calamity by fire and water; and from everlasting death:
C	Good Lord, deliver us.
L	By the mystery of Your holy incarnation; by Your holy nativity;
By Your baptism, fasting, and temptation; by Your agony and bloody sweat; by Your cross and passion; by Your precious death and burial;
By Your glorious resurrection and ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter:
C	Help us, good Lord.
L	In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our prosperity; in the hour of death; and in the day of judgment:
C	Help us, good Lord.
L	We poor sinners implore You
C	to hear us, O Lord.
L	To rule and govern Your holy Christian Church; to preserve all pastors and ministers of Your Church in the true knowledge and understanding of Your wholesome Word and to sustain them in holy living;
To put an end to all schisms and causes of offense; to bring into the way of truth all who have erred and are deceived;
To beat down Satan under our feet; to send faithful laborers into Your harvest; and to accompany Your Word with Your grace and Spirit:
C	We implore You to hear us, good Lord.
L	To raise those who fall and to strengthen those who stand; and to comfort and help the weakhearted and the distressed:
C	We implore You to hear us, good Lord.
L	To give to all peoples concord and peace; to preserve our land from discord and strife; to give our country Your protection in every time of need;
To direct and defend our [president/queen/king] and all in authority; to bless and protect our magistrates and all our people;
To watch over and help all who are in danger, necessity, and tribulation; to protect and guide all who travel;
To grant all women with child, and all mothers with infant children, increasing happiness in their blessings; to defend all orphans and widows and provide for them;
To strengthen and keep all sick persons and young children; to free those in bondage; and to have mercy on us all:
C	We implore You to hear us, good Lord.
L	To forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers and to turn their hearts; to give and preserve for our use the kindly fruits of the earth; and graciously to hear our prayers:
C	We implore You to hear us, good Lord.
L	Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
C	we implore You to hear us.
 
L	Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,
C	have mercy.
L	Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,
C	have mercy.
L	Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,
C	grant us Your peace.
 
L	O Christ,
C	hear us.
L	O Lord,
C	have mercy.
L	O Christ,
C	have mercy.
L	O Lord,
C	have mercy. Amen.

Lord’s Prayer
C	Our Father who art in heaven,
     hallowed be Thy name,
     Thy kingdom come,
     Thy will be done on earth
          as it is in heaven;
     give us this day our daily bread;
     and forgive us our trespasses
          as we forgive those
          who trespass against us;
     and lead us not into temptation,
     but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom
     and the power and the glory
     forever and ever. Amen.

Prayers for others and ourselves

Concluding prayers:

Almighty God, merciful Father, who created and completed all things, on this day when the work of our calling begins anew, we implore You to create its beginning, direct its continuance, and bless its end, that our doings may be preserved from sin, our life sanctified, and our work this day be well pleasing to You; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.

I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.

Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Then go joyfully to your work.

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