The Collect
Second Sunday in LentO God, whose glory it is always to have
mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from thy ways, and bring them
again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the
unchangeable truth of thy Word, Jesus Christ thy Son; who with thee and the Holy
Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen Preface of Lent
Old Testament Reading
Genesis 22:1-141 After these things God tested Abraham,
and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
2 He said,
"Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of
Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of
which I shall tell you."
3 So Abraham rose early in the morning,
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and
he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which
God had told him.
4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and
saw the place afar off.
5 Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay
here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to
you."
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it
on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went
both of them together.
7 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My
father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the
wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
8 Abraham said,
"God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went
both of them together.
9 When they came to the place of which God had
told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
10 Then
Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11
But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham,
Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
12 He said, "Do not lay your hand
on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you
have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
13 And Abraham
lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a
thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a
burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham called the name of
that place The LORD will provide; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of
the LORD it shall be provided."
Psalm
Psalm 16 16:5-115O LORD, you are my portion and my cup; *
it is you who uphold my lot.
6My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; *
indeed, I have a goodly heritage.
7I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel; *
my heart teaches me, night after night.
8I have set the LORD always before me; *
because he is at my right hand I shall not fall.
9My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices; *
my body also shall rest in hope.
10For you will not abandon me to the grave, *
nor let your holy one see the Pit.
11You will show me the path of life; *
in your presence there is fullness of joy,
and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore.
New Testament Reading
Romans 8:31-3931 What then shall we say to this? If God
is for us, who is against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son but
gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?
33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who
justifies;
34 who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes,
who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed
intercedes for us?
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, "For thy sake we are being
killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
who loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Gospel Reading
Mark 8:31-3831 And he began to teach them that the Son
of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief
priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke
him.
33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and
said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of men."
34 And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to
them, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow me.
35 For whoever would save his life will lose it;
and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
36 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit
his life?
37 For what can a man give in return for his life?
38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes
in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
