Sunday, March 1, 2015

SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT
WORSHIP: 8 & 10:45 AM
Gen. 17:1-7, 15-16; Ps.22:23-31; Rom. 4:13-25; Mark 8:31-38

May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
by which the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (Gal. 6:14)

O Christ, unto your cross we raise

Our eyes in gratitude and praise,

And lift up holy hands in prayer

For what your grace embodied there:

A heart of love, so high, so broad -

The unrelenting love of God.

To you, O Christ, we lift our days

To be the vessels of your grace;

Drawn to your cross, our lives redrawn,

We serve the world unto your dawn;

Fed at your meal, we turn to feed

All those in hunger, those in need.

Your outstretched arms embrace the world

To which in mercy we are called;

May we take up your cross, O Christ,

To take up lives of sacrifice,

And follow in your selfless path

That draws abundant life from death.

This cross can call, this cross can prove

A sign of God's unchanging love;

Lift up our hearts, transfigure us

Into the pattern of your cross;

So may our hearts receive this sign,

And so embody love divine.

           

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