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Saturday, March 7 |
| The Vespers Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 5 and 8 p.m |
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Friday, Second Week of Lent |
The Call to Prayer |
| O tarry and await the LORD’s pleasure; be strong, and he shall comfort your heart;* wait patiently for the LORD. |
| Psalm 27:18 |
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The Request for Presence |
| Out of the depths have I called to you, O LORD; LORD, hear my voice;* let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication. |
| Psalm 130:1 |
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The Greeting |
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| For your Name’s sake, O LORD,* forgive my sin, for it is great. |
| Psalm 25:10 |
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The Hymn |
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| O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, your only crown: How pale you are with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn! How does that visage languish which once was bright as morn! What you, O Lord, have suffered was all for sinner’s gain; Mine, mine was the transgression, but yours the deadly pain. Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ’Tis I deserve your place; Look on me with your favor, vouchsafe to me your grace. What language shall I borrow to thank you, dearest friend, For this your dying sorrow, your pity without end? O make me yours forever; and should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never outlive my love for thee. |
| Bernard of Clairvaux |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, Lord GOD of Hosts;* let not those who seek you be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel. |
| Psalm 69:7 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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This God Is Our God For Ever and Ever |
| We have waited in silence on your loving-kindness, O God,* in the midst of your temple. Your praise, like your Name, O God, reaches to the world’s end;* your right hand is full of justice. Let Mount Zion be glad and the cities of Judah rejoice,* because of your judgments. Make the circuit of Zion; walk round about her;* count the number of her towers. Consider well her bulwarks; examine her strongholds;* that you may tell those who come after. This God is our God for ever and ever;* he shall be our guide for evermore. |
| Psalm 48:8–13 |
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The Refrain |
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| We have waited in silence on your loving-kindness, O God,* in the midst of your temple. Your praise, like your Name, O God, reaches to the world’s end;* your right hand is full of justice. Let Mount Zion be glad and the cities of Judah rejoice,* because of your judgments. Make the circuit of Zion; walk round about her;* count the number of her towers. Consider well her bulwarks; examine her strongholds;* that you may tell those who come after. This God is our God for ever and ever;* he shall be our guide for evermore. |
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The Cry of the Church |
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| Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. |
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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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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, may effectually be obtained, 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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