March 2025
Sunday 2nd March – Sunday next before Lent
| Sunday Collect | Sunday Readings |
| Holy God, you know the disorder of our sinful lives: set straight our crooked hearts, and bend our wills to love your goodness and your glory in Jesus Christ our Lord. | Exodus 34: 29 – end 2 Corinthians 3: 12 – 4: 2 Luke 9: 28 – 36 |
Sunday 9th March – 1st Sunday of Lent
| Sunday Collect | Sunday Readings |
| Heavenly Father, your Son battled with the powers of darkness, and grew closer to you in the desert: help us to use these days to grow in wisdom and prayer that we may witness to your saving love in Jesus Christ our Lord. | Deuteronomy 26: 1 – 11 Romans 10: 8b – 13 Luke 4: 1 – 13 |
Sunday 16th March – 2nd Sunday of Lent
| Sunday Collect | Sunday Readings |
| Almighty God, by the prayer and discipline of Lent may we enter into the mystery of Christ’s sufferings, and by following in his Way come to share in his glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. | Genesis 15: 1 – 12, 17 – 18 Philippians 3: 17 – 4:1 Luke 13: 31 – end |
Sunday 23rd March – 3rd Sunday of Lent
| Sunday Collect | Sunday Readings |
| Eternal God, give us insight to discern your will for us, to give up what harms us, and to seek the perfection we are promised in Jesus Christ our Lord. | Isaiah 55: 1 – 9 1 Corinthians 10:1 – 13 Luke 13: 1 – 9 |
Sunday 30th March – 4th Sunday of Lent
| Sunday Collect | Sunday Readings |
| Merciful Lord, you know our struggle to serve you: when sin spoils our lives and overshadows our hearts, come to our aid and turn us back to you again; through Jesus Christ our Lord. | Exodus 2: 1 – 10 Colossians 3: 12 – 17 John 19: 25b – 27 |
