March 3, 2023, 8:30 am
3rd Sunday of Lent
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Prelude: Adoramus te, Christe (Gather 400)
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Entrance Hymn: Lord, who throughout these forty days (Gather 416)
Lord, who throughout these forty days,
For us did fast and pray,
Teach us to overcome our sins,
And close by you to stay.
As you with Satan did contend,
And did the vict’ry win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
In you to conquer sin.
As you did hunger and did thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and so to live
By your most holy word.
And through these days of penitence,
And through your Passiontide,
For evermore, in life and death,
O Lord! with us abide.
Abide with us, that through this life
Of doubts and hope and pain,
An Easter of unending joy
We may at last attain!
Text: Claudia F. Hernaman, 1838-1898, alt. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Scripture Readings (external link): 3rd Sunday of Lent
Responsorial: Psalm 19
R: Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
Communion Hymn: O Lord, the Guardian of my Heart (Gather 556)
O Lord, the guardian of my heart,
who rules the day and night,
you guide me through my darkest hours
and lead me into light.
1. Teach me the way of your truth,
help me to know your wisdom.
Keep me in your presence, Lord,
show me how to love.
2. Take my weakness, O God.
Build my strength in faith.
Save me in your mercy, Lord,
clothe me with your grace.
3. Wipe away my fear,
lift me from my sorrow.
Wash away my brokenness,
heal my wounded soul.
Text: Carol E. Browning, b. 1956, © 2000, GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305
Communion Hymn: Return to God (Gather 410)
Return to God with all your heart, the source of grace and mercy;
come seek the tender faithfulness of God.
Now the time of grace has come, the day of salvation;
come and learn now the way of our God.
I will take your heart of stone and place a heart within you,
a heart of compassion and love.
If you break the chains of oppression, if you set the pris’ner free;
if you share your bread with the hungry, give protection to the lost;
give a shelter to the homeless, clothe the naked in your midst,
then your light shall break forth like the dawn.
Text: Marty Haugen, b.1950, © 1990, 1991, GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Concluding Hymn: Nothing but the blood (HS 912)
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
O precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my pardon this I see,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this is my plea,
Nothing can for sin atone,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Naught of good that I have done,
This is all my hope and peace,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness,
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