(in
case anybody’s wondering about the date.
we
had to wait till after DSCP’s change of command)
INVOCATION
Psalm 43
[Lament of a Levite in exile]
Defend me, take up my cause
against people who have no pity
from the treacherous and cunning
man
rescue me, O God.
It is You, God, Who are my shelter:
Why do you abandon me?
Why must I walk so mournfully,
oppressed by the enemy.
Send out Your light and Your
truth,
let these be my guide,
to lead me to Your holy mountain
and to the place where You live.
Then I shall go to the altar
of God,
to the God of my joy,
I shall rejoice,
I shall praise You on the harp,
Yahweh, my God.
Why so downcast my soul?
Why do you sigh within me?
Put your hope in God:
I shall praise Him yet, my Saviour,
my God.
BENEDICTION
“Does a woman forget her
baby at the breast,
or fail to cherish the son of
her womb?
Yet if even these forget,
I will never forget
you.” [Is 49:15]
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Father, as we go back to the
routine of our lives;
send forth Your Spirit with
us to continually quicken
our hearts, teaching us to remember
as You remember;
never forgetting Your own, and
forever keeping watch
over them. May the peace
of Your Presence be a
constant companion both for
us here and those of our
brothers and sisters in captivity;
so that we all may
walk with You toward our final
home. Amen.
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