12.2.23 Vespers, Saturday Evening Prayer

Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 34th Saturday in Ordinary Time, December 2, 2023. First Sunday in Advent. (Note: Saturday evening Vespers is always Sunday Vespers I, and Sunday evening Vespers is Sunday Vespers II. Sundays get 2 Vespers, as in a Solemnity).

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00:00 Deus in Adjutorium
00:41 Hymn: "Conditor Alme Siderum." 9th Century Latin Hymn (Translated by J.M. Neale 19th Century).
02:56 Psalm 141v1-9
05:29 Psalm 142
08:17 Canticle: Philippians 2v6-11
10:13 Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5v23-24
10:56 Responsory "Lord show us your mercy and love."
11:31 Canticle of Mary
13:28 Intercessions
15:07 Pater Noster (The Lord's Prayer)
15:55 Concluding Prayers

The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes), ©1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Readings and Old and New Testament Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles) are from the New American Bible © 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C.