Reading of the Law of God
Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the
seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work,
you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant,
or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on
the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus 20.8-11
Confession of Sin
Our Father, we hear
Your Law. We know what You require. And yet, all too often, we follow the ways
of the world. We profane the Sabbath and fill it with things You do not want.
We ask that You would forgive us. We ask that You would teach our hearts the blessings
of obedience to this command. We ask that You would teach our hearts to submit
to You. We ask this only through Jesus, our Savior. Amen.
Declaration of Pardon
Whoever conceals his
transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will
obtain mercy. Proverbs 28.13
May God our Father
forgive us our sins, and bring us to the fellowship of his table with his
saints for ever.
The Book of Common Prayer