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Wednesday, April 29 |
| 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 |
| Open my lips, O LORD,* and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. |
| Psalm 51:16 |
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The Request for Presence |
| My soul waits for the LORD, more than watchmen for the morning,* more than watchmen for the morning. |
| Psalm 130:5 |
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The Greeting |
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| You have put gladness in my heart,* more than when grain and wine and oil increase. I lie down in peace; at once I fall asleep;* for only you, LORD,make me dwell in safety. |
| Psalm 4:7–8 |
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The Hymn |
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Love’s Redeeming Work Is Done |
| Love’s redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won. Death in vain forbids him rise; Christ has opened paradise. Lives again our glorious King; Where, O death, is now your sting? Once he died our souls to save, Where your victory, O grave? Soar we now where Christ has led, Following our exalted Head; Made like him, like him we rise, Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. |
| Charles Wesley |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| The LORD has sworn an oath to David;* in truth, he will not break it: “Ason, the fruit of your body* will I set upon your throne. |
| Psalm 132:11–12 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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Our Eyes Look to the LORD Our God |
| To you I lift up my eyes,* to you enthroned in the heavens. As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,* and the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God,* until he shows us his mercy. Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy,* for we have had more than enough of contempt, Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich,* and of the derision of the proud. |
| Psalm 123 |
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The Refrain |
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| The LORD has sworn an oath to David;* in truth, he will not break it: “Ason, the fruit of your body* will I set upon your throne. |
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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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| I thank you, heavenly Father, that you have delivered me from the dominion of sin and death and brought me into the kingdom of your Son; and I pray that, as by his death he has recalled me to life, so by his love he may raise me to eternal joys; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. † |
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The Concluding Prayer of the Church |
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| Grant, Lord God, to all who have been baptized into the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ, that, as we have put away the old life of sin, so we may be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and live in righteousness and true holiness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. † |
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