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Tuesday, February 17 |
| The Vespers Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 5 and 8 p.m |
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The Call to Prayer |
| The righteous will be glad . . . And they will say, “Surely, there is a reward for the righteous;* surely, there is a God who rules in the earth.” |
| Psalm 58:10–11 |
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The Request for Presence |
| Make me understand the way of your commandments,* that I may meditate on your marvelous works. |
| Psalm 119:27 |
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The Greeting |
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| You have made me glad by your acts, O LORD;* and I shout for joy because of the works of your hands. |
| Psalm 92:4 |
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The Hymn |
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Night Is Drawing Nigh |
| Now the day is over, night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening steal across the sky. Jesus, give the weary calm and sweet repose; With your tenderest blessing may our eyelids close. Grant to little children visions bright of thee. Guard the sailors tossing on the sea. Comfort every sufferer watching late in pain; Those who plan some evil from their sin restrain. Through the long night watches may your angels spread Their wings above me, watching round my bed. When the morning wakens then I may arise Pure and fresh and sinless in your holy eyes. |
| Sabine Baring-Gould |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| My mouth shall speak of wisdom,* and my heart shall meditate on understanding. |
| Psalm 49:2 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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Your Wonders Are More Than I Can Count |
| Great things are they that you have done, O LORD my God! how great your wonders and your plans for us!* there is none who can be compared with you. Oh, that I could make them known and tell them!* but they are more than I can count. |
| Psalm 40:5–6 |
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The Refrain |
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| My mouth shall speak of wisdom,* and my heart shall meditate on understanding. |
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The Gloria |
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| Glory be to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, so it is now and so it shall ever be, world without end. Alleluia. Amen. |
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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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| O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing: Send your Holy Spirit and pour into my heart your greatest gift, which is love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is accounted dead before you. Grant this for the sake of your only Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. † |
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The Concluding Prayer of the Church |
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| O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from me all wrong desires, incline my heart to keep your law, and guide my feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, I may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen. † |
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