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Tuesday, April 21 |
| 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 |
| Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, you heavenly hosts; praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. |
| Doxology |
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The Request for Presence |
| Show your goodness, O LORD, to those who are good* and to those who are true of heart. |
| Psalm 125:4 |
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The Greeting |
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| Out of the mouths of infants and children* your majesty is praised above the heavens. |
| Psalm 8:2 |
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The Hymn |
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Hymn of Martyrs |
| Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs, holy women, holy men, with affection’s recollections greet we your return again. Worthy deeds they wrought, and wonders, worthy of the Name they bore; we with meetest praise and sweetest, honor them for evermore. Faith prevailing, hope unfailing, loving Christ with single heart, thus they, glorious and victorious, bravely bore the martyr’s part, by contempt of every anguish, by unyielding battle done; victors at the last, they triumph, with the host of angels one. Therefore, you that reign in glory, fellow-heirs with Christ on high, join to ours your supplication when before him we draw nigh, praying that, this life completed, all its fleeting moments past, by his grace we may be worthy of eternal bliss at last. |
| Latin, 12th C. |
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The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons |
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| We have heard with our ears, O God, our forefathers have told us,* the deeds you did in their days, in the days of old. |
| Psalm 44:1 |
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The Vespers Psalm |
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Let the Nations Be Glad and Sing for Joy |
| May God be merciful to us and bless us,* show us the light of his countenance and come to us. Let your ways be known upon earth,* your saving health among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God;* let all the peoples praise you. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,* for you judge the peoples with equity and guide all the nations upon earth. Let the peoples praise you, O God;* let all the peoples praise you. The earth has brought forth her increase;* may God, our own God, give us his blessing. May God give us his blessing,* and may all the ends of the earth stand in awe of him. |
| Psalm 67 |
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The Refrain |
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| We have heard with our ears, O God, our forefathers have told us,* the deeds you did in their days, in the days of old. |
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The Call to Prayer |
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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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| O God, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that I, who have been raised with him, may abide in his presence and rejoice in the hope of eternal glory; through Jesus Christ my Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be dominion and praise for ever and ever. Amen. † |
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The Concluding Prayer of the Church |
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| Almighty God, you have surrounded me with a great cloud of witnesses: Grant that I, encouraged by the good example of your servant Mark, may persevere in running the race that is set before me, until at last I may with him attain to your eternal joy; through Jesus Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. † |
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