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    The Fourth Sunday of Lent
         
    Year A Year B Year C
         
Principal
Service
  1 Samuel 16.1-13
Psalm 23
Ephesians 5.8-14
John 9.1-41
Numbers 21.4-9
Psalm 107.1-3,17-22*
Ephesians 2.1-10
John 3.14-21
Joshua 5.9-12
Psalm 32
2 Corinthians 5.16-21
Luke 15.1-3,11b-32
         
Second
Service
 
  If the Principal Service readings have been displaced by Mothering Sunday provisions, they may be used at the Second Service.
  Psalm 31.1-16 or 31.1-8 
Micah 7 or
Prayer of Manasseh
James 5
Gospel at Holy Communion:
John 3.14-21 
Psalms 13, 14
Exodus 6.2-13
Romans 5.1-11
Gospel at Holy Communion:
John 12.1-8
Psalm 30
Prayer of Manasseh or
Isaiah 40.27 - 41.13
2 Timothy 4.1-18
Gospel at Holy Communion:
John 11.17-44
         
Third
Service 
  Psalm 19
Isaiah 43.1-7 
Ephesians 2.8-14  
Psalm 27  
1 Samuel 16.1-13
John 9.1-25 
Psalms 84, 85
Genesis 37.3-4,12-36
1 Peter 2.16-25
     
     
    Mothering Sunday
       
Principal
Service
Years
A, B, C 
   Exodus 2.1-10 or 1 Samuel 1.20-28
Psalm 34.11-20 or Psalm 127.1-4
2 Corinthians 1.3-7 or Colossians 3.12-17
Luke 2.33-35 or John 19.25-27
 

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