Midday Prayer for Friday, January 13, 2023

• Opening Sentences
• Apocrypha: Judith 10:1-10
• Old Testament: Isaiah 42:1-17
• Confession of Faith: The Heidelberg Catechism: Introduction
• Ancient or Classic Prayer: Attributed to Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
• Prayer for Various Occasions: At the Time of a Minister's Retirement
• Collect
• The Lord's Prayer ("debts")
• Dismissal

This service is adapted from The Book of Common Worship: Daily Prayer, copyright (c) 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. Scripture quotations (except the Psalms and Canticles) are from the New Revised Standard Version - Updated Edition, copyright (c) 2021 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The Confessions are from The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Part I: The Book of Confessions, published by the Office of the General Assembly, copyright (c) 2016.  "Aleluya" music by JosepMonter from Pixabay. Candle image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay.

An introduction to Daily Prayer is available here.