Welcome to St. Patrick's "Weekly Guide."  Below, you can read our weekly lessons, psalms, and the gospel, keeping up with our worship service and lectionary online.  What is a lectionary?  Click here. 

First Lesson (Palm Sunday, 1 April 2007): Isaiah 45:21-25

Declare and present you case; l et them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? There is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Saviour; there is no one besides me. Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, form my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall no return: “To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.” Only in the Lord, it shall be said to me, are righteousness and strength; all who were incensed against him shall come to him and be ashamed. In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory.

Second Lesson (Palm Sunday, 1 April 2007): Philippians 2:5-11

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born into human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death--even his death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exhalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Psalm (Palm Sunday, 1 April 2007): 22:1-11

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

And are so far from my cry

And from the words of my distress?

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer;

By night as well, but I find no rest.

Yet you are the Holy One,

Enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

Our forefathers put hteir trust in you;

They trusted, and you delivered them.

They cried out to you and were delivered;

They trusted in you and were not put to shame.

But as for me, I am a worm and no man,

Scored by all and despised by the people.

All who see me laugh me to scorn;

They curl their lips and wag their heads, saying,

“He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him;

Let him rescue him, if he delights in him.”

Yet you are he who took me of the womb,

And kept me safe upon my mother’s breast.

I have been entrusted to you ever since I was born;

You were my God when I was still in my mother’s womb.

Be not far from me, for trouble is near,

And there is none to help.