Friends, we hope you have found this service of Midday Prayer an encouraging and helpful practice during this past season. At the end of August, we will be concluding the weekly updates. If you'd like to continue this practice, please send Sandy a note at info@14thstreetcrc.org and she'll get back to you with information about how to do so using another online resource. Grace and peace.

Family Prayer

These services of morning, midday, early evening, and close of day prayer are adapted from the services outlined in the Book of Common Prayer (ACNA 2019). They are intentionally designed to facilitate family worship, with young children in mind, and should take roughly 5-10 minutes.

Midday

Opening Scripture

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

—Ephesians 1:3

Psalm 113:1-4

Praise the Lord. Sing praises, you servants of the Lord;
O praise the Name of the Lord.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord,
from this time forth for evermore.
The Lord’s Name be praised
from the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same. 

The Lord is high above all nations,
and his glory above the heavens. 

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

Scripture Reading

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

—John 15:4-5