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Friday, December 5 |
| The Vespers Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 5 and 8 p.m |
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First Week of Advent |
The Call to Prayer |
| Behold now, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,* you that stand by night in the house of the LORD. Lift up your hands in the holy place and bless the LORD;* the LORD who made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion. |
| Psalm 134 |
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The Request for Presence |
| Look upon me and answer me, O LORD my God;* give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death. |
| Psalm 13:3 |
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The Greeting |
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| O LORD, I am not proud;* I have no haughty looks. I do not occupy myself with great matters,* or with things that are too hard for me. But I still my soul and make it quiet, like a child upon its mother’s breast;* my soul is quieted within me. |
| Psalm 131:1-3 |
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The Hymn |
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| Lo, how a rose e’er blooming From tender stem has sprung! Of Jesse’s lineage coming, As those of old have sung. It came a floweret bright, Amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night. Isaiah ’twas foretold it, The Rose I have in mind; With Mary we behold it, The Virgin Mother kind. To show God’s love aright, She bore to us a Savior, When half spent was the night. |
| German, 15th Century |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| Those who are planted in the house of the LORD* shall flourish in the courts of our God. |
| Psalm 92:12 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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Let Me Announce the Decree of the LORD |
| Why are the nations in an uproar?* Why do the peoples mutter empty threats? Why do the kings of the earth rise up in revolt, and the princes plot together,* against the LORD and against his Anointed? “Let us break their yoke,” they say;* “let us cast off their bonds from us.” He whose throne is in heaven is laughing;* the Lord has them in derision. Then he speaks to them in his wrath,* and his rage fills them with terror. “I myself have set my king* upon my holy hill of Zion.” Let me announce the decree of the LORD:* he said to me, “You are my Son; this day have I begotten you. Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance* and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall crush them with an iron rod* and shatter them like a piece of pottery.” And now, you kings, be wise;* be warned, you rulers of the earth. Submit to the LORD with fear,* and with trembling bow before him; Lest he be angry and you perish;* for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are they all* who take refuge in him! |
| Psalm 2 |
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The Refrain |
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| Those who are planted in the house of the LORD* shall flourish in the courts of our God. |
| Psalm 92:12 |
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The Cry of the Church |
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| Even so, come, Lord Jesus! |
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The Lord’s Prayer |
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| Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your Name. May your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for yours are the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. |
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The Prayer Appointed for the Week |
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| Almighty God, give all of us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.† |
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Concluding Prayers of the Church |
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| Almighty God, who has promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in your Son’s Name: I beseech you mercifully to incline your ear to me who have made my prayers and supplications to you; and grant that those things which I have faithfully asked according to your will, I may effectually obtain, to the relief of my necessity, and to the setting forth of your glory; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.† May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in eternal peace. Amen. |
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