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The Trinity Mission

April 1, 2026

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Thanks,
-Michael

Led by Fr. Michael Thorne Jarrett

 

Today’s Readings:
Psalm 78
Isaiah 51:9-52:12
John 13:1-30*

Confession

The confession is said privately. The audio file begins after confession.

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.

A brief silence is kept

Grant your faithful people, merciful Lord, pardon and peace; that we may be cleansed from all our sins, and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Invitatory

O = Officiant
A = All

 

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O Lord, open our lips.
A And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
O O God, make speed to save us.
A O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
O Praise the Lord.
A The Lord’s Name be praised.
Everyone shall join in the following:

Venite
Psalm 95:1-7; 96:9,13

O 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.

 

O come, let us worship and bow down,*
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.
Today, if you hear his voice,*
do not harden your heart as in the rebellion.

 

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;*
let the whole earth stand in awe of him.
For he comes, for he comes to judge the earth*
and with righteousness to judge the world
and the peoples in his faithfulness.

 

Psalter

The appointed Psalm is read together

Psalm 78
1  Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; *
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2  I will open my mouth in a parable; *
I will utter dark sayings of old,
3  things we have heard and known, *
things that our fathers have told us.
4  We will not hide them from their children; *
we will tell to the generation to come
4  the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, *
and the wonderful works that He has done.
5  He established a testimony in Jacob *
and appointed a law in Israel,
5  which he commanded our fathers *
to teach to their children,
6  that the next generation might know them, *
the children yet to be born,
6  that they would arise and tell them to their children, *
so that they would set their hope in God
7  and not forget the works of God, *
but keep his commandments;
8  and that they should not be like their fathers, *
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
8  a generation that did not set its heart aright, *
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9  The children of Ephraim, armed with the bow, *
turned back on the day of battle.
10  They did not keep the covenant of God, *
they refused to walk in his law.
11  They forgot his works *
and the wonders that he had shown them.
12  He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, *
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13  He divided the sea and led them through it, *
and made the waters stand up like a heap.
14  In the daytime he led them with a cloud, *
and all the night with a light of fire.
15  He split the rocks in the wilderness *
and gave them drink in abundance as from the great deep.
16  He brought forth streams from out of the rock *
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17  Yet they sinned still more against him, *
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18  They tested God in their heart *
by demanding food according to their desire.
19  They spoke against God, saying, *
“Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20  Behold, he struck the rock so that water gushed out *
and the streams overflowed.
20  Can he also give bread *
or provide meat for his people?”
21  When the LORD heard this, he was filled with anger; *
and a fire was kindled against Jacob;
22  his wrath arose against Israel,
because they did not believe in God *
and did not trust in his salvation.
23  Yet he commanded the clouds above *
and opened the doors of the heavens,
24  and he rained down on them manna to eat *
and gave them the bread of heaven.
25  Man ate of the bread of angels; *
he sent them food in abundance.
26  He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, *
and by his power he made the south wind blow;
27  he rained meat on them like dust, *
winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28  he let them fall in the midst of their camp, *
all around their habitations.
29  So they ate and were well filled, *
for he gave them their own desire.
30  But before they had satisfied their craving, *
while the food was still in their mouths,
31  the wrath of God rose up against them,
and killed the strongest of them *
and struck down the young men of Israel.
32  In spite of all this, they sinned yet more; *
despite his wonders, they did not believe.
33  So he ended their days in futility, *
and their years in sudden terror.
34  When he killed them, then they sought him; *
they repented and sought earnestly for God.
35  They remembered that God was their rock, *
the Most High God their redeemer.
36  Nevertheless, they flattered him with their mouths; *
they lied to him with their tongues.
37  For their heart was not steadfast toward him; *
nor were they faithful in his covenant.
38  But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity *
and did not destroy them;
38  time after time he turned his anger away, *
and did not stir up all his wrath.
39  He remembered that they were but flesh, *
a wind that passes and comes not again.
40  How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness *
and grieved him in the desert.
41  They tested God again and again *
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42  They did not remember his power *
or the day he redeemed them from the enemy,
43  when he performed his signs in Egypt *
and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
44  He turned their rivers to blood, *
they could not drink from their streams.
45  He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, *
and frogs, which destroyed them.
46  He gave also their crops to the grasshopper *
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47  He destroyed their vines with hailstones *
and their sycamore trees with frost.
48  He gave over their cattle to the hail *
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49  He sent forth on them his burning anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress, *
a band of destroying angels.
50  He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare their souls from death, *
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51  He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, *
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52  Then he led out his people like sheep *
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53  He led them on safely, so that they were not afraid; *
while the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54  He brought them in to the borders of his holy land, *
to the mountain which his right hand had won.
55  He drove out the nations before them;
he allotted them their lands as an inheritance *
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56  Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God *
and did not keep his testimonies,
57  but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; *
they twisted like a deceitful bow.
58  For they provoked him to anger with their high places; *
and moved him to jealousy with their idols.
59  When God heard this, he was filled with anger, *
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60  He abandoned his tabernacle in Shiloh, *
the tent where he dwelt among man,
61  and delivered his strength into captivity, *
his glory into the enemy’s hand.
62  He gave his people over to the sword *
and showed himself angry with his inheritance.
63  Fire devoured their young men, *
and their maidens had no marriage songs.
64  Their priests fell by the sword, *
and their widows made no lamentation.
65  Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, *
like a warrior overcome with wine.
66  He drove back his adversaries; *
he put them to everlasting shame.
67  He rejected the tent of Joseph; *
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68  he chose the tribe of Judah, *
Mount Zion, which he loves.
69  He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, *
like the earth, which he has established forever.
70  He chose David his servant *
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71  from following the nursing ewes he brought him *
to shepherd Jacob his people,
and Israel his inheritance.
72  And he shepherded them in the integrity of his heart *
and guided them with the skillfulness of his hands. †

Composite

 


After the Psalm, the Officiant begins

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

 


The Lessons

A reading of the appointed lessons

Isaiah 51:9–52:12


9   Awake, awake, put on strength,
    O arm of the LORD;
  awake, as in days of old,
    the generations of long ago.
  Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
    who pierced the dragon?
10   Was it not you who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep,
  who made the depths of the sea a way
    for the redeemed to pass over?
11   And the ransomed of the LORD shall return
    and come to Zion with singing;
  everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
    they shall obtain gladness and joy,
    and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


12   “I, I am he who comforts you;
    who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,
    of the son of man who is made like grass,
13   and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker,
    who stretched out the heavens
    and laid the foundations of the earth,
  and you fear continually all the day
    because of the wrath of the oppressor,
  when he sets himself to destroy?
    And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
14   He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;
    he shall not die and go down to the pit,
    neither shall his bread be lacking.
15   I am the LORD your God,
    who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    the LORD of hosts is his name.
16   And I have put my words in your mouth
    and covered you in the shadow of my hand,
  establishing the heavens
    and laying the foundations of the earth,
    and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”


17   Wake yourself, wake yourself,
    stand up, O Jerusalem,
  you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD
    the cup of his wrath,
  who have drunk to the dregs
    the bowl, the cup of staggering.
18   There is none to guide her
    among all the sons she has borne;
  there is none to take her by the hand
    among all the sons she has brought up.
19   These two things have happened to you—
    who will console you?—
  devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
    who will comfort you?
20   Your sons have fainted;
    they lie at the head of every street
    like an antelope in a net;
  they are full of the wrath of the LORD,
    the rebuke of your God.


21   Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,
    who are drunk, but not with wine:
22   Thus says your Lord, the LORD,
    your God who pleads the cause of his people:
  “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;
  the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
23   and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    who have said to you,
    ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
  and you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to pass over.”


52   Awake, awake,
    put on your strength, O Zion;
  put on your beautiful garments,
    O Jerusalem, the holy city;
  for there shall no more come into you
    the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2   Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
    be seated, O Jerusalem;
  loose the bonds from your neck,
    O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus says the LORD: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” 4 For thus says the Lord GOD: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the LORD, “and continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”


7   How beautiful upon the mountains
    are the feet of him who brings good news,
  who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
    who publishes salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8   The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
    together they sing for joy;
  for eye to eye they see
    the return of the LORD to Zion.
9   Break forth together into singing,
    you waste places of Jerusalem,
  for the LORD has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10   The LORD has bared his holy arm
    before the eyes of all the nations,
  and all the ends of the earth shall see
    the salvation of our God.


11   Depart, depart, go out from there;
    touch no unclean thing;
  go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
    you who bear the vessels of the LORD.
12   For you shall not go out in haste,
    and you shall not go in flight,
  for the LORD will go before you,
    and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.


ESV

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

 


A brief silence is kept after the reading.
Please pause the service if you would like more time.

 

Canticle

The Song of Zechariah
Benedictus Dominus Deus
Luke 1: 68-79

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;*
he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,*
born of the house of his servant David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old,
that he would save us from our enemies,*
from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers*
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham,*
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
Free to worship him without fear,*
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life.

You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High,*
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
To give his people knowledge of salvation*
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender compassion of our God*
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
To shine on those who dwell in darkness
and the shadow of death,*
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;*
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

 

John 13:1–30

13 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”

21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, 24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” 28 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. 30 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

ESV

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

 


A brief silence is kept after the reading.

 

The Creed

 

I believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, visible and invisible.

 

I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,
was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

 

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father,
who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

 


The Prayers

O The Lord be with you
A And with your spirit.
O Let us pray.
   
O Lord, have mercy
A Christ, have mercy
  Lord, have mercy
 
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
 

O God of all creation, full of love and abounding in mercy;
A May the whole earth be filled with your glory.
O Lord, bless and guide all ministers of your church;
A Clothe them in righteousness and grant them wisdom.
O Direct the leaders of our nation;
A That they may act in accordance with your kingdom.
O Enlarge our own hearts, O Lord,
A To love the things that you love
O May we proclaim your light
A In every place where there is darkness.
O May we proclaim you
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