Daily Readings: March 25, 2025

The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Morning	Evening
Psalm 85 Psalm 87	Psalm 110:1-5(6-7) Psalm 132
Isa. 52:7-12 Hebrews 2:5-10	Wisdom 9:1-12 John 1:9-14

The Collect of the Day

The Annunciation

March 25

Pour your grace into our hearts, O Lord, that we who have known the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ, announced by an angel to the Virgin Mary, may by his cross and passion be brought to the glory of his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Pour your grace into our hearts, O Lord, that we who have known the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ, announced by an angel to the Virgin Mary, may byhis cross and passion be brought to the glory of his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Ash Wednesday

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

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Benedixisti, DomineBCP p. 708

¹You have been gracious to your land, O Lord, *you have restored the good fortune of Jacob.

²You have forgiven the iniquity of your people *and blotted out all their sins.

³You have withdrawn all your fury *and turned yourself from your wrathful indignation.

⁴Restore us then, O God our Savior; *let your anger depart from us.

⁵Will you be displeased with us for ever? *will you prolong your anger from age to age?

⁶Will you not give us life again, *that your people may rejoice in you?

⁷Show us your mercy, O Lord, *and grant us your salvation.

⁸I will listen to what the Lord God is saying, *for he is speaking peace to his faithful people and to those who turn their hearts to him.

⁹Truly, his salvation is very near to those who fear him, *that his glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Mercy and truth have met together; *righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹¹Truth shall spring up from the earth, *and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

¹²The Lord will indeed grant prosperity, *and our land will yield its increase.

¹³Righteousness shall go before him, *and peace shall be a pathway for his feet.

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Fundamenta ejusBCP p. 711

¹On the holy mountain stands the city he has founded; *the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

²Glorious things are spoken of you, *O city of our God.

³I count Egypt and Babylon among those who know me; *behold Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia: in Zion were they born.

⁴Of Zion it shall be said, “Everyone was born in her, *and the Most High himself shall sustain her.”

⁵The Lord will record as he enrolls the peoples, *“These also were born there.”

⁶The singers and the dancers will say, *“All my fresh springs are in you.”

Daily Office Readings

⁵Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. ⁶But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them? ⁷You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor, ⁸subjecting all things under their feet.” Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, ⁹but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. ¹⁰It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.