12.28.22 Vespers, Wednesday Evening Prayer

Vespers, Wednesday Evening Prayer, December 28th, 2022. Commemoration of the Holy Innocents.

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Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"

Hymn: "In the Bleak Midwinter," Rossetti 

Psalm 110v1-5, 7 (Gregorian tone 3)

Psalm 130 (Gregorian tone 7)

Canticle: Colossians 1v12-20 (Gregorian tone 2)

Reading: 1 John 1v1-3

Responsory: The Word was made man, alleluia, alleluia.

Magnificat: Luke 1v46-55 (Latin, Gregorian tone 8)

Intercessions

Pater Noster

Concluding Prayers

Dominus Nos Benedicat – "May the Lord bless us"

"Alma Redemptoris Mater," Bl. Hermann Contractus 11th century. "Kind one, the Ransomer's Mother," c.John Rose & SingtheHours 2021

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.