Monday 20 April 2020
Monday of the 2nd week of Eastertide
Morning Prayer (Lauds)
Introduction (without Invitatory)
If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead.
O God, come to our aid.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.
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Hymn
Light’s glittering morn bedecks the sky,
Heav’n thunders forth its victor cry:
The glad earth shouts her triumph high,
And groaning hell makes wild reply.
While he, the King of sovereign might,
Treads down death’s strength in death’s despite,
And trampling hell by victor’s right,
Brings forth his sleeping saints to light.
Fast barred beneath the stone of late,
In watch and ward where soldiers wait,
Now shining in triumphant state,
He rises victor from death’s gate.
Hell’s pains are loosed and tears are fled:
Captivity is captive led:
The angel, crowned with light, hath said:
‘The Lord is risen from the dead.’
Author of all, be thou our guide
In this our joy of Eastertide;
Whene’er assaults of death impend,
Thy people strengthen and defend.
To thee who, dead, again dost live,
All glory, Lord, thy people give:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete.
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Psalm 41 (42)
Longing for the Lord and his temple
“Let all who are thirsty come; all who want it may have the water of life” (Rev 22:17).
My soul is yearning for you, my God, like a deer that seeks running streams. Alleluia.
Líke the déer that yéarns *
for rúnning stréams,
só my sóul is yéarning *
for yóu, my Gód.
My sóul is thírsting for Gód, *
the Gód of my lífe;
whén can I énter and sée *
the fáce of Gód?
My téars have becóme my bréad, *
by níght, by dáy,
as I héar it sáid all the day lóng: *
‘Whére is your Gód?’
Thése things will Í remémber *
as I póur out my sóul:
how I would léad the rejóicing crówd *
into the hóuse of Gód,
amid críes of gládness and thanksgíving, *
the thróng wild with jóy.
Whý are you cast dówn, my sóul, *
why gróan withín me?
Hope in Gód; I will práise him stíll, *
my sáviour and my Gód.
My sóul is cast dówn withín me *
as I thínk of yóu,
from the cóuntry of Jórdan and Mount Hérmon, *
from the Híll of Mízar.
Déep is cálling on déep, *
in the róar of wáters;
your tórrents and áll your wáves *
swept óver mé.
By dáy the Lórd will sénd *
his lóving kíndness;
by níght I will síng to hím, *
praise the Gód of my lífe.
I will sáy to Gód, my róck: *
‘Whý have you forgótten me?
Whý do Í go móurning *
oppréssed by the fóe?’
With críes that píerce me to the héart, *
my énemies revíle me,
sáying to me áll the day lóng: *
‘Whére is your Gód?’
Whý are you cast dówn, my sóul, *
why gróan withín me?
Hope in Gód; I will práise him stíll, *
my sáviour and my Gód.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
My soul is yearning for you, my God, like a deer that seeks running streams. Alleluia.
Psalm-prayer
Father in heaven, when your strength takes possession of us we no longer say: Why are you cast down, my soul? So now that the surging waves of your indignation have passed over us, let us feel the healing calm of your forgiveness. Inspire us to yearn for you always, like the deer for running streams, until you satisfy every longing in heaven.
Or:
Lord God, never-failing fountain of life eternal, by the saving waters of baptism you called us from the depths of sin, to the depths of mercy. Do not forget the trials of our exile, but from the wellspring of the Word, satisfy our thirst for you so we may come rejoicing to your holy mountain.
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Canticle
Ecclesiasticus 36
A prayer for Jerusalem, the holy city
“This is eternal life: to know you, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (Jn 17:3).
Fill Sion with songs of your praise, Lord, and let the stories of your great deeds be told. Alleluia.
Save us, God of all things, *
strike all the nations with terror;
raise your hand against foreign nations, *
that they may see the greatness of your might.
Our sufferings proved your holiness to them; *
let their downfall prove your glory to us.
Let them know, as we ourselves know, *
that there is no other God but you.
Give us signs again, work further wonders, *
clothe your hand, your right arm in glory.
Assemble all the tribes of Jacob, *
as when they first received their inheritance.
Pity the poor people called by your name, *
pity Israel, chosen as your first-born.
Have compassion on the holy city, *
Jerusalem, the place of your rest.
Let Sion ring with your praises, *
let your temple be filled with your glory.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
Fill Sion with songs of your praise, Lord, and let the stories of your great deeds be told. Alleluia.
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Psalm 18 (19)
Praise of God the creator
“The Rising Sun has come to visit us to guide our feet in the way of peace” (Lk 1:78,79).
The glory of God will illumine the city; the Lamb will be its light, alleluia.
The héavens procláim the glóry of Gód, *
and the fírmament shows fórth the wórk of his hánds.
Dáy unto dáy tákes up the stóry *
and níght unto níght makes knówn the méssage.
No spéech, no wórd, no vóice is héard †
yet their spán exténds through áll the éarth, *
their wórds to the útmost bóunds of the wórld.
Thére he has pláced a tént for the sún; †
it comes fórth like a brídegroom cóming from his tént, *
rejóices like a chámpion to rún its cóurse.
At the énd of the ský is the rísing of the sún; †
to the fúrthest énd of the ský is its cóurse. *
There is nóthing concéaled from its búrning héat.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
The glory of God will illumine the city; the Lamb will be its light, alleluia.
Psalm-prayer
To enlighten the world, Father, you sent to us your Word as the sun of truth and justice shining upon mankind. Illumine our eyes that we may discern your glory in the many works of your hand.
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Short Reading
Romans 10:8-10
The word is very near to you, it is on your lips and in your heart: the word, that is, of the faith we proclaim. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing with your lips you are saved.
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Short Responsory
The Lord has risen from the dead, alleluia, alleluia.
– The Lord has risen from the dead, alleluia, alleluia.
For our sake he died on the cross, alleluia, alleluia.
– The Lord has risen from the dead, alleluia, alleluia.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
– The Lord has risen from the dead, alleluia, alleluia.
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Canticle
Benedictus
The Messiah and the one who was sent before him
‘I tell you solemnly, unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Alleluia.
Bléssed be the Lórd, the Gód of Ísrael! *
He has vísited his péople and redéemed them.
He has raised úp for ús a mighty sáviour *
in the hóuse of Dávid his sérvant,
as he prómised by the líps of holy mén, *
thóse who were his próphets from of óld.
A sáviour who would frée us from our fóes, *
from the hánds of áll who háte us.
So his lóve for our fáthers is fulfílled *
and his hóly covenant remémbered.
He swóre to Ábraham our fáther to gránt us, *
that frée from féar, and sáved from the hánds of our fóes,
we might sérve him in hóliness and jústice *
all the dáys of our lífe in his présence.
As for yóu, little chíld, *
you shall be cálled a próphet of Gód, the Most Hígh.
You shall go ahéad of the Lórd *
to prépare his wáys befóre him,
To make knówn to his péople their salvátion *
through forgíveness of áll their síns,
the loving-kíndness of the héart of our Gód *
who vísits us like the dáwn from on hígh.
He will give líght to those in dárkness, †
those who dwéll in the shádow of déath, *
and gúide us into the wáy of péace.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
‘I tell you solemnly, unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Alleluia.
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Prayers and intercessions
Let us pray to the Father, whose glory was displayed in the death and resurrection of his Son.
– Lord, enlighten our minds and hearts.
God, Father of light, you have illumined the world with the glory of Christ;
may the light of faith shine in our lives today.
– Lord, enlighten our minds and hearts.
Through the resurrection of your Son you have opened man’s way to everlasting life;
may all our work today be filled with the hope of your kingdom.
– Lord, enlighten our minds and hearts.
Through your risen Son you sent the Holy Spirit into the world;
set our hearts on fire with his divine love.
– Lord, enlighten our minds and hearts.
By hanging on the cross, your Son won our lasting freedom;
may he stay with us today as our Saviour and Redeemer.
– Lord, enlighten our minds and hearts.
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Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
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Almighty, ever-living God,
we confidently call you Father as well as Lord.
Renew your Spirit in our hearts:
make us ever more perfectly your children,
so that we may enter upon the inheritance you have promised us.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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The Lord bless us, and keep us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
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