Can These Bones Live?: Fifth Sunday in Lent

Take a few deep breaths, settle your body, mind, and heart into a quiet space, and let’s begin with prayer.

Opening prayer: Heavenly Father, make me more like Jesus and more like the true self you’ve created as I savor your loving presence today. Please guide my thoughts and impressions by your Holy Spirit. Amen.

Look: Resurrection of Lazarus, Henry Ossawa Tanner - Source

Listen: Psalm 130: 'Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord', Choir of Westminster Abbey - Spotify | YouTube

Read: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 6:15-23; John 11:1-44

Pray: The Collect for the Fifth Sunday in Lent

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of this world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially). Enjoy something you've given up, giving thanks to Christ for the abundance we receive from his obedience and great love.

We also feast on poetry! Read this week’s poem, “We Who Must Die Demand A Miracle”, from W.H. Auden’s For The Time Being and spend a few moments preparing for the fourth full week of Lent.

*Sunday Scripture readings are taken from Year A of the Book of Common Prayer 2019 (Anglican Church of North America). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and include both Morning and Evening Psalms (Year 1)