Opening Song Penitential Rite First Reading
Second Sunday of Lent February 28, 2021 told him, Abraham built an altar there and ar- ranged the wood on it. Then he reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the LORD’s messenger called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am!” he an- Opening Song swered. “Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the messenger. “Do not do the least thing COME NOW IS THE TIME to him. I know now how devoted you are to TO WORSHIP (DOERKSEN) God, since you did not withhold from me your Come, now is the time to worship, own beloved son.” As Abraham looked about, Come, now is the time to give your heart. he spied a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. Come, just as you are to worship. So he went and took the ram and offered it up Come, just as you are before your God, as a holocaust in place of his son. Come… One day every tongue will confess You are God, Again the LORD’s messenger called to Abra- One day every knee will bend... ham from heaven and said: “I swear by myself, Still the greatest treasure remains for those declares the LORD, that because you acted as who gladly choose You now... you did in not withholding from me your be- loved son, I will bless you abundantly Penitential Rite and make your descendants as countless I confess to Almighty God, as the stars of the sky and the sands of the sea- and to you, my brothers and sisters, shore; your descendants shall take possession that I have greatly sinned, of the gates of their enemies, and in your de- in my thoughts and in my words, scendants all the nations of the earth shall find in what I have done and in what I have failed to blessing—all this because you obeyed my com- mand.” do, (all strike their breasts at these words) The Word of the Lord…..Thanks be to God.
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