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    Good Friday

    Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

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    Deus, Deus meusBCP p. 610

    1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? *and are so far from my cry and from the words of my distress?

    2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; *by night as well, but I find no rest.

    3Yet you are the Holy One, *enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

    4Our forefathers put their trust in you; *they trusted, and you delivered them.

    5They cried out to you and were delivered; *they trusted in you and were not put to shame.

    6But as for me, I am a worm and no man, *scorned by all and despised by the people.

    7All who see me laugh me to scorn; *they curl their lips and wag their heads, saying,

    8“He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him; *let him rescue him, if he delights in him.”

    9Yet you are he who took me out of the womb, *and kept me safe upon my mother’s breast.

    10I have been entrusted to you ever since I was born; *you were my God when I was still in my mother’s womb.

    11Be not far from me, for trouble is near, *and there is none to help.

    12Many young bulls encircle me; *strong bulls of Bashan surround me.

    13They open wide their jaws at me, *like a ravening and a roaring lion.

    14I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; *my heart within my breast is melting wax.

    15My mouth is dried out like a pot-sherd; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; *and you have laid me in the dust of the grave.

    16Packs of dogs close me in, and gangs of evildoers circle around me; *they pierce my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones.

    17They stare and gloat over me; *they divide my garments among them; they cast lots for my clothing.

    18Be not far away, O Lord; *you are my strength; hasten to help me.

    19Save me from the sword, *my life from the power of the dog.

    20Save me from the lion’s mouth, *my wretched body from the horns of wild bulls.

    21I will declare your Name to my brethren; *in the midst of the congregation I will praise you.

    22Praise the Lord, you that fear him; *stand in awe of him, O offspring of Israel; all you of Jacob’s line, give glory.

    23For he does not despise nor abhor the poor in their poverty; neither does he hide his face from them; *but when they cry to him he hears them.

    24My praise is of him in the great assembly; *I will perform my vows in the presence of those who worship him.

    25The poor shall eat and be satisfied, and those who seek the Lord shall praise him: *“May your heart live for ever!”

    26All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, *and all the families of the nations bow before him.

    27For kingship belongs to the Lord; *he rules over the nations.

    28To him alone all who sleep in the earth bow down in worship; *all who go down to the dust fall before him.

    29My soul shall live for him; my descendants shall serve him; *they shall be known as the Lord’s for ever.

    30They shall come and make known to a people yet unborn *the saving deeds that he has done.

    Daily Office Readings

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    John 13:36-38

    36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow afterward.” 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Very truly, I tell you, before the cock crows, you will have denied me three times.

    Gen. 22:1-14

    1 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.” 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away. 5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you.” 6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. 7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together. 9 When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 13 And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

    Wisdom 1:16-2:1, 12-22

    16 But the ungodly by their words and deeds summoned death; considering him a friend, they pined away and made a covenant with him, because they are fit to belong to his company. 1 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, ‘Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end, and no one has been known to return from Hades. 12 ‘Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; 15 the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. 16 We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. 17 Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18 for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19 Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.’ 21 Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, 22 and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hoped for the wages of holiness, nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;