Morning Prayer for February 22, 2026

✙

First Sunday in Lent

MORNING

02.22.2026

Our Father, whichwho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done inon earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them thatthose 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 Lord, open thou our lips.

And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.

O God, make speed to save us.

O Lord, make haste to help us.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Praise ye the Lord.

The Lord's Name be praised.

Ps. 95.

1	O come, let us sing unto the Lord; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
2	Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms.
3	For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4	In his hand are all the corners of the earth, and the strength of the hills is his also.
5	The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land.
6	O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7	For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
8	Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
9	When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
10	Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways;
11	Unto whom I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.
†	Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Ps. 107.

1	O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.
2	Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy;
3	And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west; from the north and from the south.
4	They went astray in the wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in;
5	Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6	So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
7	He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to the city where they dwelt.
8	O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men;
9	For he satisfieth the empty soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
10	Such as sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron;
11	Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord, and lightly regarded the counsel of the most Highest;
12	He also brought down their heart through heaviness: they fell down, and there was none to help them.
13	So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivered them out of their distress.
14	For he brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death, and brake their bonds in sunder.
15	O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men;
16	For he hath broken the gates of brass, and smitten the bars of iron in sunder.
17	Foolish men are plagued for their offence, and because of their wickedness.
18	Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door.
19	So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivered them out of their distress.
20	He sent his word, and healed them; and they were saved from their destruction.
21	O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men;
22	That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and tell out his works with gladness!
23	They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters;
24	These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
25	For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
26	They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep; their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
27	They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
28	So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress.
29	For he maketh the storm to cease, so that the waves thereof are still.
30	Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
31	O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men;
32	That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders!
33	Who turneth the floods into a wilderness, and drieth up the watersprings.
34	A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35	Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground.
36	And there he setteth the hungry, that they may build them a city to dwell in;
37	That they may sow their land, and plant vineyards, to yield them fruits of increase.
38	He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
39	And again, when they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble;
40	Though he suffer them to be evil intreated through tyrants, and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness;
41	Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery, and maketh him households like a flock of sheep.
42	The righteous will consider this, and rejoice; and the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped.
43	Whoso is wise will ponder these things; and they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
†	Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Here beginneth the 19th chapter of Genesis.

1	And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2	And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3	And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4	But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5	And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
6	And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7	And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8	Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
9	And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
10	But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11	And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
12	And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
13	For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
14	And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
15	And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16	And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
17	And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
18	And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
19	Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
20	Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21	And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22	Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23	The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24	Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25	And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26	But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27	And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
28	And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29	And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Here endeth the first lesson.

O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: