Holy Week Monday
INTROIT
“Be gracious to me, O LORD” Ps. 31:10-11, 13-15; antiphon: Ps. 31:9
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am I in distress;* my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body I also.
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing,*
my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
For I hear the whispering of many — terror on every side! —
as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Almighty God, grant that in the midst of our failures and weaknesses we may be restored through the passion and intercession of Your only begotten Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. AMEN