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<p class="MsoNormal">DAILY LECTIONARY</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Zechariah 9:9-16<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lo, your king comes to you;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>triumphant and victorious is he,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">humble and riding on a donkey,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on a colt, the foal of a donkey.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He* will cut off the chariot from Ephraim</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the warhorse from Jerusalem;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and the battle-bow shall be cut off,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he shall command peace to the nations;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">his dominion shall be from sea to sea,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and from the River to the ends of the earth.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>today I declare that I will restore to you double.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For I have bent Judah as my bow;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have made Ephraim its arrow.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will arouse your sons, O Zion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>against your sons, O Greece,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and wield you like a warrior’s sword.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then the Lord will appear over them,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and his arrow go forth like lightning;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the Lord God will sound the trumpet</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord of hosts will protect them,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and they shall devour and tread down the slingers;*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">they shall drink their blood* like wine,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and be full like a bowl,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>drenched like the corners of the altar.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On that day the Lord their God will save them,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for they are the flock of his people;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for like the jewels of a crown</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>they shall shine on his land.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1 Peter 3:13-22</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear,* and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an account of the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence.* Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered* for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you* to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for* a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Matthew 21:1-13</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, just say this, “The Lord needs them.” And he will send them immediately.*’ This took place to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Tell the daughter of Zion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Look, your king is coming to you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>humble, and mounted on a donkey,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. A very large crowd* spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Hosanna to the Son of David!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hosanna in the highest heaven!’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’ The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then Jesus entered the temple* and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, ‘It is written,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“My house shall be called a house of prayer”;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but you are making it a den of robbers.’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Morning Psalms: Psalm 118</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 118</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>his steadfast love endures for ever!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let Israel say,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘His steadfast love endures for ever.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let the house of Aaron say,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘His steadfast love endures for ever.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let those who fear the Lord say,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘His steadfast love endures for ever.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Out of my distress I called on the Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the Lord on my side I do not fear.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What can mortals do to me?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is on my side to help me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is better to take refuge in the Lord</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>than to put confidence in mortals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is better to take refuge in the Lord</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>than to put confidence in princes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All nations surrounded me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in the name of the Lord I cut them off!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in the name of the Lord I cut them off!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They surrounded me like bees;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>they blazed* like a fire of thorns;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in the name of the Lord I cut them off!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was pushed hard,* so that I was falling,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but the Lord helped me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is my strength and my might;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he has become my salvation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘The right hand of the Lord does valiantly;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the right hand of the Lord is exalted;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I shall not die, but I shall live,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and recount the deeds of the Lord.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord has punished me severely,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but he did not give me over to death.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Open to me the gates of righteousness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that I may enter through them</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and give thanks to the Lord.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the gate of the Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the righteous shall enter through it.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I thank you that you have answered me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and have become my salvation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The stone that the builders rejected</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>has become the chief cornerstone.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is the Lord’s doing;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>it is marvellous in our eyes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is the day that the Lord has made;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let us rejoice and be glad in it.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Save us, we beseech you, O Lord!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>O Lord, we beseech you, give us success!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We bless you from the house of the Lord.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is God,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he has given us light.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bind the festal procession with branches,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>up to the horns of the altar.*</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you are my God, I will extol you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for his steadfast love endures for ever.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Evening Psalms: Psalm 145</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 145</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Praise. Of David.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will extol you, my God and King,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and bless your name for ever and ever.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every day I will bless you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and praise your name for ever and ever.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>his greatness is unsearchable.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One generation shall laud your works to another,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and shall declare your mighty acts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the glorious splendour of your majesty,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The might of your awesome deeds shall be proclaimed,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and I will declare your greatness.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is gracious and merciful,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is good to all,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and his compassion is over all that he has made.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and all your faithful shall bless you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and tell of your power,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to make known to all people your* mighty deeds,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the glorious splendour of your* kingdom.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and your dominion endures throughout all generations.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is faithful in all his words,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and gracious in all his deeds.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord upholds all who are falling,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and raises up all who are bowed down.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The eyes of all look to you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and you give them their food in due season.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You open your hand,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>satisfying the desire of every living thing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is just in all his ways,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and kind in all his doings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord is near to all who call on him,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to all who call on him in truth.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He fulfils the desire of all who fear him;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he also hears their cry, and saves them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord watches over all who love him,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but all the wicked he will destroy.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and all flesh will bless his holy name for ever and ever.</p>
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