May 21, 2023 Midday Prayer

Daily Prayer (Presbyterian Book of Common Worship)

Midday Prayer for Sunday, May 21, 2023
Seventh Sunday of Easter

• Opening Sentences
• Apocrypha: Sirach 21:1-10
• Old Testament: Ezekiel 3:16-27
• Confession: The Apostles' Creed
• Ancient or Classic Prayer: Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
• Prayer for Various Occasions: For the Right Use of Nature's Power
• Prayer
• The Lord's Prayer ("debts")
• Dismissal

This service is adapted from The Book of Common Worship: Daily Prayer, copyright (c) 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. Scripture quotations (except the Psalms and Canticles) are from the New Revised Standard Version - Updated Edition, copyright (c) 2021 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The Confessions are from The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Part I: The Book of Confessions, published by the Office of the General Assembly, copyright (c) 2016. "Aleluya" music by JosepMonter from Pixabay. Candle image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay.
An introduction to Daily Prayer is available here.