Daily Prayer for Monday, April 6, 2020- Holy Week

      O sacred head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down…
                                                   Attr. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
Preparation for worship
Sit in a relaxed position. Take a slow, deep breath (or 2 or 3 or as many as needed) until you feel your body, mind, and soul begin to relax and rest in the Spirit.  Take time to reflect as you move through this time of worship…


Opening Sentences—                                                    2 Corinthians 5:17
In Christ there is a new creation.  The old has passed away; everything is new!


Prayer                     
Almighty God, whose Son was revealed in majesty before he suffered death upon the cross:  give us faith to perceive his glory, that we may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.   


Hymn of the Day
Were You There?  (Presbyterian Hymnal #102) Each day this week I’ll suggest another interpretation of this song, in the hope that they will provide new insight to us all.
Listen and pray along with this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhGYD1svTM4


Reading of the Day:  Mark 11: 15-19
15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; 16 and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
    But you have made it a den of robbers.”
18 And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. 19 And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.


Prayers for self and others
Use this time to lift your joys, concerns, and hopes to God.


Benediction
May the Lamb upon the throne
be your shepherd,
guiding you to the water of life,
and wiping away every tear.  Amen.