8.18.22 Vespers, Thursday Evening Prayer

Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 20th Thursday in Ordinary Time, August 18th, 2022. Thanks for praying with us, for inquiries, requests, feedback, please email [email protected]. 

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Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance" (StH Polyphonic Arrangement)

Hymn: "Deus qui cæli lumen," (alternating Latin, English) St. Ambrose of Milan (4th century), English translation by John Rose (copyright) and Sing the Hours

Psalm 144 (part 1) (Gregorian tone 6, alt.)

Psalm 144 (part 2) (Gregorian tone 6, alt.)

Canticle: Revelation 11v17-18; 12v10b-12a (tonus peregrinus)

Reading: See Colossians 1v23

Responsory: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want for nothing. (StH arrangement)

Magnificat – Luke 1v46-55 (Solemn tone 8, Latin)

Intercessions: Give us light, peace and security, Lord.

Pater Noster (Latin) – The Lord's Prayer

Concluding Prayers

Salve Regina (simple tone, Bl. Hermann Contractus)

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.