Penitential Liturgy for Lent

A God who heals
Opening Responses
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Reader	Come to the Lord all you who are troubled and sad
ALL	COME TO OUR LORD WHO IS TENDERNESS AND COMPASSION
	THE GOD WHO HEALS EVERY ONE OF YOUR ILLS.
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Reader	Come to the Lord, all you who are weary and overburdened
ALL	COME TO OUR LORD – SHARE HIS YOKE AND LEARN FROM HIM
	FOR HE IS GENTLE AND HUMBLE
	AND YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOUL.
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Reader	Come to the Lord, all you whose spirits are cast down
	whose hopes and dreams have been bruised by the power of sin
ALL	COME TO OUR LORD WHO DOES NOT QUENCH THE WAVERING FLAME
	OR BREAK THE CRUSHED REED
	but who faithfully brings justice – pardon – and peace
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Reader	Come all you who are afraid or haunted by guilt
ALL	COME TO OUR LORD WHO BIDS US NOT TO BE AFRAID
	FOR HE HAS REDEEMED US –
	COME TO OUR GOD WHO HAS CALLED US BY NAME
	IN WHOSE EYES WE ARE PRECIOUS
	AND HONOURED
	AND LOVED.
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First Reading	Isaiah 58: 6-10
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Sung Response

Gospel	Matthew 11: 28-30
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Reflection	.

Closing Responses
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Reader	Watch now, dear Lord,
	with those who wake
	or watch
	or weep tonight,
	and give your angels charge
	over those who sleep.
ALL	TEND YOUR SICK ONES, O LORD CHRIST,
	REST YOUR WEARY ONES,
	BLESS YOUR DYING ONES,
	SOOTHE YOUR SUFFERING ONES,
	PITY YOUR AFFLICTED ONES,
	SHIELD YOUR JOYOUS ONES,
	AND ALL FOR YOUR LOVE’S SAKE.
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Reader	Now may the God of hope fill us
	with all joy and peace in believing,
	that we may abound in hope
	in the power of the Holy Spirit
ALL	AMEN