3.19.25 Lauds, Wednesday Morning Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours

Solemnity of St. Joseph. Lauds, Morning Prayer for Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Lent, March 19, 2025.
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Domine Labia Mea Aperies – "Lord, open my lips"
Invitatory Psalm 24
Hymn: "Caelitum, Ioseph, decus, atque nostrae." Girolamo Casanate, 1620-1700. English Translation: ICEL ©2023 published in "The Divine Office Hymnal,” GIA Publications, Inc.
Antiphon 1:The shepherds went in haste and found Joseph and Mary, and the infant lying in the manger. Psalm 63v2-9.
Antiphon 2: Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus, marveled at what was said of their child. Canticle: Daniel 3v57-88, 56. (Tone composed by Paul Rose)
Antiphon 3: Joseph rose in the night and took the child and his mother into Egypt. There the stayed until the death of Herod. Psalm 149 (Tone IV)
Reading: 2 Samuel 7v28-29
Responsory: God made him the master of his household.
Canticle of Zechariah (Benedictus). (Tone VIII)
Intercessions: Holy God, raise us up to new life in holiness.
Pater Noster (The Lord’s Prayer)
Collect
Concluding Rite
Marian Devotion

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.