Friday 20 December 2019
20 December
Mid-Morning Prayer (Terce)
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
Come, Holy Spirit, live in us
With God the Father and the Son,
And grant us your abundant grace
To sanctify and make us one.
May mind and tongue made strong in love
Your praise throughout the world proclaim,
And may that love within our hearts
Set fire to others with its flame.
Most blessèd Trinity of love,
For whom the heart of man was made,
To you be praise in timeless song,
And everlasting homage paid.
Stanbrook Abbey Hymnal
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PSALMS OF THE DAY
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Psalm 21 (22)
The just man suffers; the Lord hears him
“Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’” (Mt 27:46).
The prophets foretold that the Saviour would be born of the Virgin Mary.
My Gód, my Gód, whý have you forsáken me? *
You are fár from my pléa and the crý of my distréss.
O my Gód, I call by dáy and you gíve no replý; *
I cáll by níght and I fínd no péace.
Yet yóu, O Gód, are hóly, *
enthróned on the práises of Ísrael.
In yóu our fáthers put their trúst; *
they trústed and you sét them frée.
When they críed to yóu, they escáped. *
In you they trústed and néver in váin.
But Í am a wórm and no mán, *
scorned by mén, despísed by the péople.
Áll who sée me deríde me. *
They curl their líps, they tóss their héads.
‘He trústed in the Lórd, let him sáve him; *
let him reléase him if thís is his fríend.’
Yes, it was yóu who tóok me from the wómb, *
entrústed me to my móther’s bréast.
To yóu I was commítted from my bírth, *
from my móther’s womb yóu have been my Gód.
Do not léave me alóne in my distréss; *
come clóse, there is nóne else to hélp.
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.
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Psalm 21 (22)
Mány búlls have surróunded me, *
fierce búlls of Báshan close me ín.
Agáinst me they ópen wide their jáws, *
like líons, rénding and róaring.
Like wáter Í am poured óut, *
disjóinted are áll my bónes.
My héart has becóme like wáx, *
it is mélted withín my bréast.
Párched as burnt cláy is my thróat, *
my tóngue cléaves to my jáws.
Mány dógs have surróunded me, *
a bánd of the wícked besét me.
They tear hóles in my hánds and my féet *
and láy me in the dúst of déath.
I can cóunt every óne of my bónes. *
These péople stáre at me and glóat;
they divíde my clóthing amóng them. *
They cást lóts for my róbe.
O Lórd, do not léave me alóne, *
my stréngth, make háste to hélp me!
Réscue my sóul from the swórd, *
my lífe from the gríp of these dógs.
Save my lífe from the jáws of these líons, *
my poor sóul from the hórns of these óxen.
I will téll of your náme to my bréthren *
and práise you where théy are assémbled.
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.
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Psalm 21 (22)
‘You who féar the Lórd give him práise; †
all sóns of Jácob, give him glóry. *
Revére him, Ísrael’s sóns.
‘For hé has néver despísed *
nor scórned the póverty of the póor.
From hím he has not hídden his fáce, *
but he héard the póor man when he críed.’
Yóu are my práise in the gréat assémbly. *
My vóws I will páy before thóse who féar him.
The póor shall éat and shall háve their fíll. †
They shall práise the Lórd, thóse who séek him. *
May their héarts líve for éver and éver!
All the éarth shall remémber and retúrn to the Lórd, †
all fámilies of the nátions wórship befóre him; *
for the kíngdom is the Lórd’s, he is rúler of the nátions.
They shall wórship him, áll the míghty of the éarth; *
befóre him shall bów all who go dówn to the dúst.
And my sóul shall live for hím, my chíldren sérve him. *
They shall téll of the Lórd to generátions yet to cóme,
decláre his fáithfulness to péoples yet unbórn: *
‘Thése things the Lórd has dóne.’
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 prophets foretold that the Saviour would be born of the Virgin Mary.
Psalm-prayer
Father, when your Son was handed over to torture and seemed abandoned by you, he cried out to you from the cross and death was destroyed, life was restored. By his death and resurrection, may we see the day when the poor man is saved, the downtrodden is lifted up and the chains that bind peoples are broken. United to the thanks that Christ gives you, your Church will sing your praises.
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Short Reading
Jeremiah 23:5
See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will raise a virtuous Branch for David, who will reign as true king and be wise, practising honesty and integrity in the land.
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℣. The nations shall fear your name, O Lord.
℟. And all the kings of the earth your glory.
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Let us pray.
Lord, at the angel’s message
Mary, the immaculate Virgin,
became the temple of God
and was filled with the light of the Holy Spirit
when she received your divine Word.
Grant that, after her example,
we may humbly and steadfastly follow your will.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.
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