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Wednesday, February 4 |
| The Morning Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 6 and 9 a.m. |
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The Call to Prayer |
| One day in your courts is better than a thousand in my own room,* and to stand at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of the wicked. |
| Psalm 84:9 |
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The Request for Presence |
| LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;* hearken, O God of Jacob. |
| Psalm 84:7 |
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The Greeting |
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| The LORD lives! Blessed is my Rock!* Exalted is the God of my salvation! Therefore will I extol you among the nations, O LORD,* and sing praises to your Name. |
| Psalm 18:46ff |
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The Refrain for the Morning Lessons |
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| The heaven of heavens is the LORD’s,* but he entrusted the earth to its peoples. |
| Psalm 115:16 |
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A Reading |
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On February 2, the Church observes the obedience of the Holy Family to the Law. On that day, the forty-first after Christmas, the Virgin entered the Temple in Jerusalem with Joseph to offer a sacrifice for her purification after childbirth and to present her Son to the Temple priests. |
| And when the day came for them to be purified in keeping with the Law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord—observing what is written in the Law of the Lord: Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lord—and also to offer in sacrifice, in accordance with what is prescribed in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. |
| Luke 2:22–24 |
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The Refrain |
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| The heaven of heavens is the LORD’s,* but he entrusted the earth to its peoples. |
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The Morning Psalm |
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Like a Child Upon Its Mother’s Breast |
| O LORD, I am not proud;* I have no haughty looks. I do not occupy myself with great matters,* or with things that are too hard for me. But I still my soul and make it quiet, like a child upon its mother’s breast;* my soul is quieted within me. |
| Psalm 131:1–3 |
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The Refrain |
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| The heaven of heavens is the LORD’s,* but he entrusted the earth to its peoples. |
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The Small Verse |
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| Show us your mercy O Lord; and grant us your salvation. Clothe your ministers with righteousness; let your people sing with joy. Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; for only in you can we live in safety. |
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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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| Set me free, O God, from the bondage of my sins, and give me the liberty of that abundant life which you have made known to me in your Son our Savior 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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| O Almighty and everlasting God, I humbly beseech Your Majesty, that as Your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the Temple in the substance of flesh, so too You would grant that I be presented to You with a purified soul. Through the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this new day: Preserve me with your mighty power, that I may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all I do direct me to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen. † |
| adapted from THE SHORT BREVIARY |
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