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Sunday, March 22 |
| The Vespers Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 5 and 8 p.m |
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Saturday, Fourth Week of Lent |
The Call to Prayer |
| We will bless the LORD,* from this time forth for evermore. |
| Psalm 115:18 |
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The Request for Presence |
| Answer me when I call, O God, defender of my cause;* you set me free when I am hard-pressed; have mercy on me and hear my prayer. |
| Psalm 4:1 |
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The Greeting |
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| Be exalted, O LORD, in your might;* we will sing and praise your power. |
| Psalm 21:14 |
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The Hymn |
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O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing |
| O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise, The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, To spread through all the earth abroad the honors of your name. Jesus! The name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; ’Tis music in the sinner’s ears, ’tis life, and health, and peace. He breaks the power of canceled sin, he sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean; his blood availed for me. He speaks, and listening to his voice, new life the dead receive; The mournful, broken hearts rejoice, the humble poor believe. In Christ, your head, you then shall know, shall feel your sins forgiven; Anticipate your heaven below, and own that love in heaven. |
| Charles Wesley |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| . . . I call upon you all the day long. |
| Psalm 86:3 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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My Days Drift Away Like Smoke |
| LORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry come before you;* hide not your face from me in the day of my trouble. Incline your ear to me;* when I call, make haste to answer me, For my days drift away like smoke,* and my bones are hot as burning coals. My heart is smitten like grass and withered,* so that I forget to eat my bread. Because of the voice of my groaning* I am but skin and bones. I have become like a vulture in the wilderness,* like an owl among the ruins. I lie awake and groan;* I am like a sparrow, lonely on a house-top. |
| Psalm 102:1–7 |
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The Refrain |
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| . . . I call upon you all the day long. |
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The Cry of the Church |
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| In the evening, in the morning, and at noonday, I will complain and lament,* and he will hear my voice. |
| Psalm 55:18 |
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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 God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant that I, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear my cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. † |
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The Concluding Prayer of the Church |
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| For an angel of peace, faithful guardian and guide of our souls and our bodies, we beseech thee, O Lord. |
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