Lectionary

The Fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday)
30 Mar 2014

Collect

Merciful Lord, absolve your people from their offences, that through your bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our frailty we have ommitted; grant this, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (If Mothering Sunday): God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Old Testament

1 Samuel 16:1-13 (If Mothering Sunday: Exodus 2:1-10 or 1 Samuel 1:20-28)

Psalm

Psalm 23 (If Mothering Sunday: Psalm 34:11-20 or Psalm 127:1-4)

Epistle

Ephesians 5:8-14 (If Mothering Sunday: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 or Colossians 3:12-17)

Gospel

John 9:1-41 (If Mothering Sunday: Luke 2:33-35 or John 19:25b-27)

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