Preparing for the Sixth
Sunday in Lent:
Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday
Year A

Daily Readings for Saturday
April 1, 2023

Prayer

Merciful God, 

your strength and courage pour forth 

to sustain the witness of your faithful people. 

Awaken in us the humility to serve 

wherever creation is broken and in need, 

that we may follow in the way of our brother, Jesus, 

die as he did to all that separates us from you, 

and with him be raised to new life. Amen.

 

Psalm 31:9-16

I commend my spirit

 

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;

my eye wastes away from grief,

my soul and body also.

For my life is spent with sorrow,

and my years with sighing;

my strength fails because of my misery,

and my bones waste away.

I am the scorn of all my adversaries,

a horror to my neighbors,

an object of dread to my acquaintances;

those who see me in the street flee from me.

I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;

I have become like a broken vessel.

For I hear the whispering of many—

terror all around!—

as they scheme together against me,

as they plot to take my life.

But I trust in you, O Lord;

I say, “You are my God.”

My times are in your hand;

deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.

Let your face shine upon your servant;

save me in your steadfast love.

 

Lamentations 3:55-66

A cry for help

 

I called on your name, O Lord,

from the depths of the pit;

you heard my plea, “Do not close your ear

to my cry for help, but give me relief!”

You came near when I called on you;

you said, “Do not fear!”

You have taken up my cause, O Lord,

you have redeemed my life.

You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;

judge my cause.

You have seen all their malice,

all their plots against me.

You have heard their taunts, O Lord,

all their plots against me.

The whispers and murmurs of my assailants

are against me all day long.

Whether they sit or rise—see,

I am the object of their taunt-songs.

Pay them back for their deeds, O Lord,

according to the work of their hands!

Give them anguish of heart;

your curse be on them!

Pursue them in anger and destroy them

from under the Lord’s heavens.

 

Mark 10:32-34

Going up to Jerusalem

 

They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles; they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again.”

 

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