Plainsong Daily Office

The whole earth is mine, but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.

They will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.

The world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live for ever.

We do not know what he means.

Is the Lord among us or not?

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth

Live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God

Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

By his wounds you have been healed

Abide in me, and I in you.

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us

What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them?

I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

We declare to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us

He is not God of the dead, but of the living

This slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory

Why do you seek the living among the dead?

Listen, I will tell you a mystery!

I am with you always, to the close of the age.

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

They came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him

I die every day!

The Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

He has risen, he is not here

Last of all, as to someone untimely born, he appeared also to me.

As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.

From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

Although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive

Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest

You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers

Will you lay down your life for me?

As they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them

Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them

We are workers with you for your joy

I will ask you a question

We felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead

Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it

Just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ

When they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him

O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Take heart; rise, he is calling you.

What can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal

The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized