Monday 6 April 2020
Monday of Holy Week
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.
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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 118(119): 41-48
Meditating the word of the Lord in the Law
“My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and put it into practice” (Luke 8:21)
Before the feast of the Passover Jesus knew that his hour had come. He had always loved those who were his, and now he showed the full extent of his love.
Lórd, let your lóve come upón me, *
the saving hélp of your prómise.
And I shall ánswer thóse who táunt me *
for I trúst in your wórd.
Do not táke the word of trúth from my móuth *
for I trúst in your decrées.
I shall álways kéep your láw *
for éver and éver.
I shall wálk in the páth of fréedom *
for I séek your précepts.
I will spéak of your wíll before kíngs *
and nót be abáshed.
Your commánds have béen my delíght; *
thése I have lóved.
I will wórship your commánds and lóve them *
and pónder your státutes.
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 39 (40)
Thanksgiving and a prayer for help
“You wanted no sacrifice or oblation, but you have prepared a body for me” (Heb 10:5).
I wáited, I wáited for the Lórd †
and he stóoped down to mé; *
he héard my crý.
He dréw me from the déadly pít, *
from the míry clay.
He sét my féet upon a róck *
and made my fóotsteps fírm.
He pút a new sóng into my móuth, *
práise of our Gód.
Mány shall sée and féar *
and shall trúst in the Lórd.
Háppy the mán who has pláced *
his trúst in the Lórd
and has nót gone óver to the rébels *
who fóllow false góds.
How mány, O Lórd my Gód, *
are the wónders and desígns
that yóu have wórked for ús; *
you háve no équal.
Shóuld I procláim and spéak of them, *
they are móre than I can téll!
You do not ásk for sácrifice and ófferings, *
but an ópen éar.
You do not ásk for hólocaust and víctim. *
Instéad, here am Í.
In the scróll of the bóok it stands wrítten *
that Í should do your wíll.
My Gód, I delíght in your láw *
in the dépth of my héart.
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 39 (40)
Your jústice Í have procláimed *
in the gréat assémbly.
My líps I háve not séaled; *
you knów it, O Lórd.
I have not hídden your jústice in my héart *
but decláred your faithful hélp.
I have not hídden your lóve and your trúth *
from the gréat assémbly.
O Lórd, you wíll not withhóld *
your compássion from mé.
Your mérciful lóve and your trúth *
will álways gúard me.
For Í am besét with évils *
too mány to be cóunted.
My síns have fállen upón me *
and my síght fáils me.
They are móre than the háirs of my héad *
and my héart sínks.
O Lórd, cóme to my réscue; *
Lord, cóme to my áid.
O lét there be rejóicing and gládness *
for áll who séek you.
Let them éver say: ‘The Lórd is gréat’, *
who lóve your saving hélp.
As for mé, wrétched and póor, *
the Lórd thinks of mé.
Yóu are my réscuer, my hélp, *
O Gód, do not deláy.
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.
Before the feast of the Passover Jesus knew that his hour had come. He had always loved those who were his, and now he showed the full extent of his love.
Psalm-prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, you were made obedient unto death, and your name was exalted above all others. Teach us always to do the Father’s will, so that, made holy by obedience which unites us to the sacrifice of your body, we can expect your great love in times of sorrow and sing a new song to our God.
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Short Reading
Ezekiel 33:10,11
Our sins and crimes weigh heavily on us; we are wasting away because of them. How are we to go on living? As I live – it is the Lord who speaks – I take pleasure, not in the death of a wicked man, but in the turning back of a wicked man who changes his ways to win life.
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℣. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted.
℟. Yet he opened not his mouth.
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Let us pray.
Almighty God,
grant that we who are constantly betrayed by our own weakness
may draw the breath of new life
from the passion and death of your Only-Begotten Son,
who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.
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