Perpetua, Felicity and their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203

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Purple or Lent array / red

Exciting Holiness
Song of Songs 8.6, 7
Psalm 54.1-4, 6
Revelation 12.10-12a
Matthew 24.9-13

Holy Communion
Deuteronomy 4.1, 5-9
Psalm 147.13-end
Matthew 5.17-19

The following readings may replace those provided for Holy Communion on any day (except St Joseph’s Day and the Annunciation) during the Third Week of Lent, especially in Years B and C when the Gospel passage about the Samaritan woman is not read on the Third Sunday of Lent:
Exodus 17.1-7
Psalm 95.1-2, 6-end
John 4.5-42

Morning Prayer
Psalm 38 (or) 119.105-128
Genesis 49.1-32
Hebrews 6.13-end

Evening Prayer
Psalms 36, 39 (or) 91, 93
Jeremiah 13.1-11
John 8.12-30

Additional Weekday Lectionary
Genesis 9.8-17
1 Peter 3.18-end

Collect

Holy God,
who gave great courage to Perpetua, Felicity and their companions:
grant that we may be worthy to climb the ladder of sacrifice
and be received into the garden of peace;
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.

Post Communion

God our redeemer,
whose Church was strengthened by the blood of your martyrs Perpetua, Felicity and their companions:
so bind us, in life and death, to Christ’s sacrifice
that our lives, broken and offered with his,
may carry his death and proclaim his resurrection in the world;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(or)

Eternal God,
who gave us this holy meal
in which we have celebrated the glory of the cross
and the victory of your martyrs Perpetua, Felicity and their companions:
by our communion with Christ
in his saving death and resurrection,
give us with all your saints the courage to conquer evil
and so to share the fruit of the tree of life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.