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Monday, December 22 |
| The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m |
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Fourth Week of Advent |
The Call to Prayer |
| Sing to the LORD with the harp,* with the harp and the voice of song. With trumpets and the sound of the horn* shout with joy before the King, the LORD. |
| Psalm 98:6–7 |
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The Request for Presence |
| Show us the light of your countenance, O God,* and come to us. |
| based on Psalm 67:1 |
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The Greeting |
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| O LORD, what are we that you should care for us?* mere mortals that you should think of us? We are like a puff of wind;* our days are like a passing shadow. |
| Psalm 144:3–4 |
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The Refrain for the Midday Lessons |
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| Shout with joy to the LORD, all you lands;* lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing. |
| Psalm 98:5 |
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A Reading |
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| Do not lose your fearlessness now, then, since the reward is so great. You will need perseverance if you are to do God’s will and gain what he has promised. Only a little while now, a very little while, for come he certainly will before too long. My upright person will live through faith but if he draws back, my soul will take no pleasure in him.We are not the sort of people who draw back, and are lost by it; we are the sort who keep faith until our souls are saved. Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen. |
| Hebrews 10:35–11:1 |
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The Refrain |
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| Shout with joy to the LORD, all you lands;* lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing. |
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The Midday Psalm |
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The Faithfulness of the LORD Endures |
| Praise the LORD, all you nations;* laud him, all you peoples. For his loving-kindness toward us is great,* and the faithfulness of the LORD endures for ever. Hallelujah! |
| Psalm 117 |
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The Refrain |
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| Shout with joy to the LORD, all you lands;* lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing. |
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The Cry of the Church |
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| Even so, come, Lord Jesus! |
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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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| Purify my conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in me a mansion prepared for himself; 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, by your Holy Spirit you have made us one with your saints in heaven and on earth: Grant that in my earthly pilgrimage I may always be supported by this fellowship of love and prayer, and know myself to be surrounded by their witness to your power and mercy. I ask this for the sake of Jesus Christ, in whom all my intercessions are acceptable through the Spirit, and who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.† Almighty and everlasting God, who willed that our Savior should take upon Him our flesh and suffer death upon the Cross, that all mankind should follow the example of His great humility, mercifully grant that we may both follow the example of His patience and also be made partakers of His resurrection. Through the same Jesus Christ. Amen. |
| adapted from THE SHORT BREVIARY |
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