The Fourth Sunday of Lent

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Purple or Lent array

Principal Service
Numbers 21.4-9
Psalm 107.1-3,17-22*
Ephesians 2.1-10
John 3.14-21

Third Service
Psalm 27
1 Samuel 16.1-13
John 9.1-25

Second Service

If the Principal Service readings have been displaced by Mothering Sunday provisions, they may be used at the Second Service.
Psalms 13, 14
Exodus 6.2-13
Romans 5.1-11
Gospel at Holy Communion:
John 12.1-8

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 committed;
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.

Post Communion

Lord God,
whose blessed Son our Saviour
gave his back to the smiters
and did not hide his face from shame:
give us grace to endure the sufferings of this present time
with sure confidence in the glory that shall be revealed;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Additional Collect

Merciful Lord,
you know our struggle to serve you:
when sin spoils our lives
and overshadows our hearts,
come to our aid
and turn us back to you again;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

BCP Collect

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we, who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.