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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday

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Readings

First Reading:	Job 14:1-14 ; Lamentations 3:1-9 ; Lamentations 3:19-24
Psalm:	Psalm 31:1-4 ; Psalm 31:15-16
Second Reading:	1 Peter 4:1-8
Gospel:	Matthew 27:57-66 ; John 19:38-42

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Year A, Easter season, Easter Vigil

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Readings

First Reading:	Genesis 1:1-2:4 ; Genesis 7:1-5 ; Genesis 7:11-18 ; Genesis 8:6-18 ; Genesis 9:8-13 ; Genesis 22:1-18 ; Exodus 14:10-31 ; Exodus 15:17-18 ; Exodus 15:20-21 ; Proverbs 8:1-8 ; Proverbs 8:19-21 ; Proverbs 9:4-6 ; Isaiah 55:1-11 ; Ezekiel 36:24-28 ; Ezekiel 37:1-14 ; Zephaniah 3:14-20 ; Baruch 3:9-15 ; Baruch 3:32-4:4
Psalm:	Exodus 15:1-13 ; Psalm 16 ; Psalm 19 ; Psalm 42 ; Psalm 43 ; Psalm 46 ; Psalm 98 ; Psalm 114 ; Psalm 136:1-9 ; Psalm 136:23-26 ; Psalm 143 ; Isaiah 12:2-6
Second Reading:	Romans 6:3-11
Gospel:	Matthew 28:1-10

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Hymns

Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday

• Adoramus Te Christe
  (NPM)
• Brotherly Love
• Just as the deer longs for the waterbrooks
• Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels
• O Thou Who Through This Holy Week
• Out of the Depths I Cry
• When It Seemed that Love Was Dying
• Wrestling Jacob

Year A, Easter season, Easter Vigil

• Crashing Waters at Creation
• Eternal God, Your Love's Tremendous Glory
• Father, Lord of All Creation
• God Is Our Fortress and Our Rock
• Immortal Love, for ever full
• Lift Up Your Hearts unto the Lord
• Lord, Who Left the Highest Heaven
• Of the Glory of God in the Starry Heavens
• Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers
• The Last Journey

Hymns Recommended by Experts

Were You There

This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #228 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #166.

My Song Is Love Unknown

This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #209.

Go to Dark Gethsemane

This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #220.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #39 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #348.

O sacred head now wounded

This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #168.

The Steadfast Love of the Lord

This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Holy Saturday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #59 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #347.

Recommendations for Lamentations 3:19-24

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

This is recommended for Lamentations 3:22-23 by 37 hymnal scripture indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #39 and The United Methodist Hymnal #140.

Morning Has Broken

This is recommended for Lamentations 3:22-23 by 10 hymnal scripture indexes including Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #851 and The United Methodist Hymnal #145.

A New Song for Morning and Evening

This is recommended for Lamentations 3:23 by 11 hymnal scripture indexes.

Recommendations for Psalm 31:1-4

Lead Me, Savior

This is recommended for Psalm 31:3 by 11 hymnal scripture indexes.

Recommendations for Psalm 31:15-16

My Times Are in Thy Hand

This is recommended for Psalm 31:15 by 12 hymnal scripture indexes.