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Monday, April 6 |
| The Vespers Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 5 and 8 p.m. |
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Easter Day |
The Call to Prayer |
| Hallelujah! Give praise, you servants of the LORD;* praise the Name of the LORD. |
| Psalm 113:1 |
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The Request for Presence |
| I call upon you, O God, for you will answer me;* incline your ear to me, and hear my words. |
| Psalm 17:6 |
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The Greeting |
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| You are God: I praise you;* you are the Lord: I acclaim you; You are the eternal Father:* all creation worships you. Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you:* Father, of majesty unbounded, your true and only Son,* worthy of all worship, and the Holy Spirit,* advocate and guide. As these have been from the beginning,* so they are now and evermore shall be. Alleluia. |
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The Hymn |
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Christ the Lord Is Risen Today |
| Christ the Lord is risen today. Alleluia! Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! Sing, you heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia! Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia! Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia! Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! Where, O death, is now your sting? Alleluia! Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia! Where’s your victory, boasting grave? Alleluia! Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! Following our exalted Head, Alleluia! Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia! Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia! Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia! Praise to you by both be given, Alleluia! You we greet triumphant now, Alleluia! Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia! King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia! Everlasting life is this, Alleluia! You to know, your power to prove, Alleluia! Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia! |
| Charles Wesley |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| We will bless the LORD,* from this time forth for evermore. Hallelujah! |
| Psalm 115:18 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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An Evening Song |
| I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel;* my heart teaches me, night after night. I have set the LORD always before me;* because he is at my right hand I shall not fall. My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices;* my body also shall rest in hope. For you will not abandon me to the grave,* nor let your holy one see the Pit. You will show me the path of life;* in your presence is fullness of joy, and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore. |
| Psalm 16:7–11 |
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The Refrain |
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| We will bless the LORD,* from this time forth for evermore. Hallelujah! |
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The Cry of the Church |
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| Alleluia. Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! |
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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, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that I, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, 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, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by this glorious resurrection delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant me so to die daily in sin, that I may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. † |
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