Saturday 4 April 2026
- General:
- Lectionary
Holy Saturday
Job 14: 1-14
Through all the changing scenes of life (StF 638)
Lamentations 3: 1-9, 19-24
Great is thy faithfulness (StF 51)
New every morning is the love (StF 137)
O God, beyond all thought (StF 138)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases (StF 66)
1 Peter 4: 1-8
I am not skilled to understand (StF 349)
Matthew 27: 57-66 or John 19: 38-42
A prayer for our obedience to God's will
Holy and unfathomable God, Blessed Trinity, by your grace you have called your people to be a holy nation, a royal priesthood. Draw us more deeply into the Paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus, our Great High Priest, that our intercessory prayers for the world and all its people may be obedient to your divine will.
May the worship, fellowship and service of the Church faithfully proclaim the story of your redemptive purposes from the beginning of creation. Through our lives and by our prayers may your kingdom come, and all things be gathered into Christ. Amen.
David Chapman, Chair, Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire District
A prayer for our evangelism - Alternative Prayer
Grant us grace, O God, to be interpreters of your beauty, narrators of your glory, confessors of your purpose, preachers of your mind and teachers of your works; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Odes of Solomon (late 1st Century CE)