Judica Propers

Judica Sunday  29. March 2020

Introit (Psalm 43,2b.3-5; 43,1-2a) 

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause!  

For You are the God in whom I take refuge.

Why do I go about mourning 

because of the oppression of the enemy? 

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me; 

let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling! 

Then I will go to the altar of God, 

to God my exceeding joy, 

Why are you cast down, O my soul, 

and why are you in turmoil within me? 

Hope in God; for I will again praise Him, 

my salvation and my God.

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause!  

For You are the God in whom I take refuge.

The Gloria Patri is omitted on Judica until the Easter Vigil. Judica begins the Passiontide. 

Collect of the Day

O Almighty God, by Your great goodness mercifully look upon Your people so that we may be governed and preserved evermore in body and soul; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever.  Amen. 

Genesis 22,1-14

¹After these things God tested Abraham and said to him: „Abraham!“ And he said: „Here am I.“ ²He said: „Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.“ ³So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, 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. ⁴On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. ⁵Then Abraham said to his young men: „Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and we will return to you.“ ⁶And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. ⁷And 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?“ ⁸Abraham said: „God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.“ So they went both of them together. 

⁹When they arrived at the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and placed the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood. ¹⁰Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. ¹¹But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said: „Abraham, Abraham!“ And he said: „Here am I.“ ¹²He said: „Do not lay your hand on the boy 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.“ ¹³And 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. ¹⁴So 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.“ 

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God. 

Gradual (Psalm 143,9a.10a; 18,48a.c)

Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord! Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God! You delivered me from my enemies; You rescued me from the man of violence. 

Hebrews 9,11-15 

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have arrived, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) ¹²He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of His own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. ¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, ¹⁴then how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

¹⁵Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. 

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God. 

John 8,46-59 

⁴²Jesus said to the Jews: „Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? ⁴⁷Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.“ 

⁴⁸The Jews answered Him: „Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?“ ⁴⁹Jesus answered: „I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. ⁵⁰Yet I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge. ⁵¹Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.“ ⁵²The Jews said to Him: „Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say: ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death.’ ⁵³Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?“ ⁵⁴Jesus answered: „If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say: ‘He is our God.’ ⁵⁵But you have not known Him. I know Him. If I were to say that I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and I keep His word. ⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.“ ⁵⁷So the Jews said to Him: „You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?“ ⁵⁸Jesus said to them: „Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.“ ⁵⁹So they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.