Monday 23 April 2012
Monday of the 3rd week of Eastertide
Midday Prayer (Sext)
The psalms of the day are shown here, because the complementary psalms cannot be used today at this hour.
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 my aid. O Lord, make haste to help me.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
O God of truth, O Lord of might!You order time and change aright.You send the early morning rayAnd light the glow of perfect day.
Extinguish now each sinful fireAnd banish every ill desire;And while you keep the body whole,Shine forth your peace upon our soul.
Almighty Father hear our cryThrough Jesus Christ, our Lord most high,Who, with the Spirit and with theeDoth live and reign eternally.
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Psalm 118(119): 89-96A meditation on the word of the Lord in the law
Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Your word, O Lord, for ever stands firm in the heavens:your truth lasts from age to age, like the earth you created.
By your decree it endures to this day; for all things serve you.Had your law not been my delight I would have died in my affliction.
I will never forget your precepts for with them you give me life.Save me, for I am yours since I seek your precepts.
Though the wicked lie in wait to destroy me yet I ponder your will.I have seen that all perfection has an end but your command is boundless.
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. Alleluia. Alleluia.
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Psalm 70 (71)The Lord has been my hope since my youth
Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame.In your justice rescue me, free me: pay heed to me and save me.
Be a rock where I can take refuge, a mighty stronghold to save me; for you are my rock, my stronghold.Free me from the hand of the wicked, from the grip of the unjust, of the oppressor.
It is you, O Lord, who are my hope, my trust, O Lord, since my youth.On you I have leaned from my birth, from my mother’s womb you have been my help. My hope has always been in you.
My fate has filled many with awe but you are my strong refuge.My lips are filled with your praise, with your glory all the day long.Do not reject me now that I am old; when my strength fails do not forsake me.
For my enemies are speaking about me; those who watch me take counsel togethersaying: ‘God has forsaken him; follow him, seize him; there is no one to save him.’O God, do not stay far off: my God, make haste to help me!
Let them be put to shame and destroyed, all those who seek my life.Let them be covered with shame and confusion, all those who seek to harm me.
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. Alleluia. Alleluia.
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Psalm 70 (71)
Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
But as for me, I will always hope and praise you more and more.My lips will tell of your justice and day by day of your help; though I can never tell it all.
I will declare the Lord’s mighty deeds proclaiming your justice, yours alone.O God, you have taught me from my youth and I proclaim your wonders still.
Now that I am old and grey-headed, do not forsake me, God.Let me tell of your power to all ages, praise your strength and justice to the skies,tell of you who have worked such wonders. O God, who is like you?
You have burdened me with bitter troubles but you will give me back my life.You will raise me from the depths of the earth; you will exalt me and console me again.
So I will give you thanks on the lyre for your faithful love, my God.To you will I sing with the harp, to you, the Holy One of Israel.When I sing to you my lips shall rejoice and my soul, which you have redeemed.
And all the day long my tongue shall tell the tale of your justice:for they are put to shame and disgraced, all those who seek to harm me.
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. Alleluia. Alleluia.
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Short readingColossians 2:9,12
In Christ lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment. You have been buried with him, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
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The disciples rejoiced, alleluia,– when they saw the Lord, alleluia.
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Let us pray.God and Father, to those who go astray you reveal the light of your truth and enable them to return to the right path.Grant that all who have received the grace of baptism may strive to be worthy of their Christian calling and reject everything opposed to it.Through Christ our Lord.Amen.
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Let us praise the Lord.– Thanks be to God.
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