Wednesday 15 April 2020
Easter Wednesday
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 118(119): 9-16
Meditating the word of the Lord in the Law
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15)
Christ has risen from the dead: he is no longer subject to death, alleluia.
Hów shall the yóung remain sínless? *
By obéying your wórd.
I have sóught you with áll my héart; *
let me not stráy from your commánds.
I tréasure your prómise in my héart *
lest I sín agáinst you.
Bléssed are yóu, O Lórd; *
téach me your státutes.
With my tóngue I have recóunted *
the decrées of your líps.
I rejóiced to dó your wíll *
as though all ríches were míne.
I will pónder áll your précepts *
and consíder your páths.
I táke delíght in your státutes; *
I will nót forget your wórd.
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 27 (28)
Supplication and thanksgiving
“Father, I give you thanks, since you have heard me” (Jn 11:41).
To yóu, O Lórd, I cáll, *
my róck, héar me.
If yóu do not héed I shall becóme *
like thóse in the gráve.
Héar the vóice of my pléading *
as I cáll for hélp,
as I líft up my hánds in práyer *
to your hóly pláce.
Do not drág me awáy with the wícked, *
with the évil-dóers,
who spéak words of péace to their néighbours *
but with évil in their héarts.
Bléssed be the Lórd for he has héard *
my crý, my appéal.
The Lórd is my stréngth and my shíeld; *
in hím my heart trústs.
I was hélped, my héart rejóices *
and I práise him with my sóng.
The Lórd is the stréngth of his péople, *
a fórtress where his anóinted find hélp.
Save your péople; bless Ísrael your héritage. *
Be their shépherd and cárry them for éver.
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 115 (116B)
Thanksgiving in the Temple
“Through him [Christ], let us offer God an unending sacrifice of praise” (Heb 13:15).
I trústed, éven when I sáid: *
‘I am sórely afflícted,’
and whén I sáid in my alárm: *
‘No mán can be trústed.’
How cán I repáy the Lórd *
for his góodness to mé?
The cúp of salvátion I will ráise; *
I will cáll on the Lórd’s name.
My vóws to the Lórd I will fulfíl *
befóre all his péople.
O précious in the éyes of the Lórd *
is the déath of his fáithful.
Your sérvant, Lord, your sérvant am Í; *
you have lóosened my bónds.
A thánksgiving sácrifice I máke; *
I will cáll on the Lórd’s name.
My vóws to the Lórd I will fulfíl *
befóre all his péople,
in the cóurts of the hóuse of the Lórd, *
in your mídst, O Jerúsalem.
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.
Christ has risen from the dead: he is no longer subject to death, alleluia.
Psalm-prayer
Lord, accept the prayers of your faithful people. Help us always to offer you a sacrifice of praise. Quickly break the bonds that hold your children down, and we will fulfil our vows and praise you every day.
Or:
Father, precious in your sight is the death of the saints, but precious above all is the love with which Christ suffered to redeem us. In this life we fill up in our own flesh what is still lacking in the sufferings of Christ; accept this as our sacrifice of praise, and we shall even now taste the joy of the new Jerusalem.
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Short Reading
(Romans 4:24-25)
We believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us.
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℣. This is the day which was made by the Lord, alleluia.
℟. Let us rejoice and be glad, alleluia.
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Let us pray.
God our Father,
you give us the joy of celebrating the Lord’s resurrection
each passing year.
Let this yearly feast
bring us to eternal joy.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.
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