Opening Sentence

Their sound has gone out into all lands, and their message to the ends of the world. Psalm 19:4

Confession

Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.

Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen.

Invitatory Pascha

Lord, open our lips.

And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Venite Psalm 95:1-7

Come let us sing to the Lord; *
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God, *
and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *
and the heights of the hills are his also.

The sea is his, for he made it, *
and his hands have molded the dry land.

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *
Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

Antiphon

Alleluia. The Lord is glorious in his saints: Come let us adore him. Alleluia.

Psalm 1 Beatus vir qui non abiit

1

Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, *
nor lingered in the way of sinners,
nor sat in the seats of the scornful!

2

Their delight is in the law of the LORD, *
and they meditate on his law day and night.

3

They are like trees planted by streams of water,
bearing fruit in due season, with leaves that do not wither; *
everything they do shall prosper.

4

It is not so with the wicked; *
they are like chaff which the wind blows away.

5

Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes, *
nor the sinner in the council of the righteous.

6

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, *
but the way of the wicked is doomed.

Psalm 2 Quare fremuerunt gentes?

1

Why are the nations in an uproar? *
Why do the peoples mutter empty threats?

2

Why do the kings of the earth rise up in revolt,
and the princes plot together, *
against the LORD and against his Anointed?

3

"Let us break their yoke," they say; *
"let us cast off their bonds from us."

4

He whose throne is in heaven is laughing; *
the Lord has them in derision.

5

Then he speaks to them in his wrath, *
and his rage fills them with terror.

6

"I myself have set my king *
upon my holy hill of Zion."

7

Let me announce the decree of the LORD: *
he said to me, "You are my Son;
this day have I begotten you.

8

Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance *
and the ends of the earth for your possession.

9

You shall crush them with an iron rod *
and shatter them like a piece of pottery."

10

And now, you kings, be wise; *
be warned, you rulers of the earth.

11

Submit to the LORD with fear, *
and with trembling bow before him;

12

Lest he be angry and you perish; *
for his wrath is quickly kindled.

13

Happy are they all *
who take refuge in him!

Psalm 3 Domine, quid multiplicati

1

LORD, how many adversaries I have! *
how many there are who rise up against me!

2

How many there are who say of me, *
"There is no help for him in his God."

3

But you, O LORD, are a shield about me; *
you are my glory, the one who lifts up my head.

4

I call aloud upon the LORD, *
and he answers me from his holy hill;

5

I lie down and go to sleep; *
I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.

6

I do not fear the multitudes of people *
who set themselves against me all around.

7

Rise up, O LORD; set me free, O my God; *
surely, you will strike all my enemies across the face,
you will break the teeth of the wicked.

8

Deliverance belongs to the LORD. *
Your blessing be upon your people!

Gloria Patri

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Exodus 14:21-31 (NRSV)

²¹ Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided. ²² The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. ²³ The Egyptians pursued, and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers. ²⁴ At the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and cloud looked down upon the Egyptian army, and threw the Egyptian army into panic. ²⁵ He clogged their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty. The Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the Israelites, for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt." ²⁶ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers." ²⁷ So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the LORD tossed the Egyptians into the sea. ²⁸ The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained. ²⁹ But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. ³⁰ Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. ³¹ Israel saw the great work that the LORD did against the Egyptians. So the people feared the LORD and believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.