Vespers, January 12, 2023
/GRIEF IS LOVE
We offer this prayer with shared sorrow, faith, and unrelenting hope.
A call to prayer: If I could be where you are~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMpwWSFEvEY
Psalm 121
I lift up my eyes to the mountains;
from where shall come my help?
My help shall come from the Lord
who made heaven and earth.
May he never allow you to stumble!
Let him sleep not, your guard.
No, he sleeps not nor slumbers,
Israel's guard.
The Lord is your guard and your shade;
at your right side he stands.
By day the sun shall not smite you
nor the moon in the night.
The Lord will guard you from evil,
he will guard your soul.
The Lord will guard your going and coming
both now and for ever.
Psalm 91
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_y6X2K_dM
READING 1 Cor.15:55-57
O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?
The sting of death is sin, and sin gets its sting from the law.
But thanks be to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
You Raise Me Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHpwbh9lxxY
Listen kindly to our prayers, O Lord,
and, as our faith in your Son,
raised from the dead, is deepened,
so may our hope of resurrection for your departed servants
also find new strength.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen
Let is continue with courage in the work God has entrusted to each of us:
Gabriel's Oboe
