Morning Prayer

If you want to encourage some audience participation in Morning Prayer durring the week without forking out for multiple copies of Daily Prayer, you might want some kind of card with something like this printed on it:

O Lord, open our lips

and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

The response to the Psalm and canticles:

Glory to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now

and shall be for ever. Amen.

The Benedictus (The Song of Zechariah):

1  Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel,

    who has come to his people and set them free.

2  He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour,
    born of the house of his servant David.

3  Through his holy prophets God promised of old
    to save us from our enemies,
    from the hands of all that hate us,

4  To show mercy to our ancestors,
    and to remember his holy covenant.

5  This was the oath God swore to our father

     Abraham:
     to set us free from the hands of our enemies,

6  Free to worship him without fear,
    holy and righteous in his sight
   all the days of our life.

7  And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the

    Most High,
    for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,

8  To give his people knowledge of salvation
   by the forgiveness of all their sins.

9  In the tender compassion of our God
    the dawn from on high shall break upon us,

10 To shine on those who dwell in darkness and   

      the shadow of death,
      and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Luke 1.68-79

These responses may be used in the prayers:

Lord, in your mercy  Or, Lord, hear us

hear our prayer                                Lord, graciously hear us.

Let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lord bless us, and preserve us from all evil,
and keep us in eternal life.

Amen.

Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.