In Your Body, Jesus--March 31, 2022

[From March 26, 2020 archive]

 

Lord Jesus, you underwent great suffering,

rejection, and death;

many there are today who groan with pain

and are doomed to die.

 

Many have led bitter lives of hard service;

with mercy look on them.

Teach us to suffer with those who  suffer,

to rejoice with those who rejoice;

in your body, all are one. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Exod. 1:6-22

1 Cor. 12:12-26

Mark 8:27-9:1

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 102:19-20

…that [the LORD] looked down from his holy height,
          from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
to hear the groans of the prisoners,
          to set free those who were doomed to die…

 

Exod. 1:13-14a

The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor.

 

1 Cor. 12:26

If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

 

Mark 8:31

Then [Jesus] began to teach [his disciples] that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.