Tuesday, April 22nd | Leviticus 26

Passage:
3 “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,
4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.”
(Leviticus 26:3–9)

Song:
Keep the Feast by Ben Shive and Skye Peterson

Lyrics:
Joyfully we join You at Your table
Pleading not our righteousness
By Your wealth of mercy we are able
Now to feast in confidence

Take this bread and eat
Take this cup and drink
Remember how He loved us
Rejoice and keep the feast

Who is fit to feast with such a Savior
Who His sandals could untie
Who are we that He would show us favor
Granting us this gift of life

Happy sign of friendship and reunion
With the blessed Three in One
Foretaste of that glorious communion
Vision of the world to come

Prayer:
Most merciful God,
who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity,
and has promised forgiveness to all who confess and forsake their sins:
we come before you in a humble sense of our own unworthiness,
acknowledging our manifold transgressions of your righteous laws.
But, O gracious Father, who desires not the death of sinners,
look upon us, we ask you, in mercy, and forgive us all our transgressions.
Make us deeply aware of the great evil of them,
and work in us a hearty contrition
that we may obtain forgiveness at your hands,
who are ever ready to receive humble and penitent sinners.
For the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ,
our only Savior and Redeemer. Amen.
—The Book of Common Prayer (1552)