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Tomorrow: 14th Sunday of the year
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(These are the First Vespers of tomorrow, 14th Sunday of the year)
A suitable hymn may be inserted at this point.
| Psalm 118 (119): 105-112 |
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Lord, your word is a lamp to guide my feet. Alleluia.
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Your word is a lamp to guide my feet,
a light for my journey.
I have firmly sworn to keep your just laws.
Lord, I am greatly afflicted:
revive me as you have promised.
Lord, accept the vows I make,
and teach me your judgements.
I hold my life in my hands,
I remember your laws.
The wicked placed a trap for me,
but I did not wander from your commandments.
Your decrees are my inheritance for ever,
they are the joy of my heart:
my heart is set on carrying them out,
for ever, until the end.
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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Lord, your word is a lamp to guide my feet. Alleluia.
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| Psalm 15 (16) |
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| The Lord, my inheritance |
Lord, you will fill me with joy at the sight of your face. Alleluia.
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Preserve me, Lord,
I put my hope in you.
I have said to the Lord
“You are my Lord,
in you alone is all my good.”
As for the holy and noble men of the land,
in them is all my delight.
But for those who run to alien gods,
their sorrows are many.
I will not share in their libations of blood.
I will not speak their names.
You, Lord, are my inheritance and my cup.
You control my destiny,
the lot marked out for me is of the best,
my inheritance is all I could ask for.
I will bless the Lord who gave me understanding;
even in the night my heart will teach me wisdom.
I will hold the Lord for ever in my sight:
with him at my side I can never be shaken.
Thus it is that my heart rejoices,
heart and soul together;
while my body rests in calm hope.
You will not leave my soul in the underworld.
You will not let your chosen one see decay.
You will show me the paths of life,
the fullness of joy before your face,
and delights at your right hand until the end of time.
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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Lord, you will fill me with joy at the sight of your face. Alleluia.
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| Canticle | Philippians 2 |
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| Christ, God's servant | |
At the name of Jesus every knee will bend. Alleluia.
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Jesus Christ, although he shared God’s nature,
did not try to seize equality with God for himself;
but emptied himself, took on the form of a slave,
and became like a man:
not in appearance only,
for he humbled himself by accepting death,
even death on a cross.
For this, God has raised him high,
and given him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bend,
in heaven, on earth, and under the earth,
and every tongue will proclaim
“Jesus Christ is Lord,”
to the glory of God the Father.
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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At the name of Jesus every knee will bend. Alleluia.
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| Short reading | Colossians 1:2-6 © |
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father. We have never failed to remember you in our prayers and to give thanks for you to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ever since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you show towards all the saints because of the hope which is stored up for you in heaven. It is only recently that you heard of this, when it was announced in the message of the truth. The Good News which has reached you is spreading and bearing fruit all over the world.
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| Canticle | Magnificat |
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| My soul rejoices in the Lord | |
Most of those who heard Jesus were astonished as his teaching. They said, ‘Where did the man get all this? This is the carpenter, surely, the son of Mary?’
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My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God, my salvation.
For he has shown me such favour –
me, his lowly handmaiden.
Now all generations will call me blessed,
because the mighty one has done great things for me.
His name is holy,
his mercy lasts for generation after generation
for those who revere him.
He has put forth his strength:
he has scattered the proud and conceited,
torn princes from their thrones;
but lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
he has remembered his mercy as he promised to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.
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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Most of those who heard Jesus were astonished as his teaching. They said, ‘Where did the man get all this? This is the carpenter, surely, the son of Mary?’
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| Prayers and Intercessions | ? |
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God helps and watches over his chosen people on the path to blessedness. We thank him and call on his kindness:
– In you, Lord, we put our trust.
Merciful Father, we pray for our Pope N. and our bishop N:
give them your strength and protection and make them holy.
– In you, Lord, we put our trust.
Help the sick to unite themselves with Christ in his passion
and to receive his consolation in their sufferings.
– In you, Lord, we put our trust.
In your kindness, care for those with no roof over their heads:
may they find the decent shelter they need.
– In you, Lord, we put our trust.
Give us abundant fruits from the land,
so that all may receive their daily bread.
– In you, Lord, we put our trust.
Lord, in your great kindness look after the dead,
and grant them a dwelling-place in heaven.
– In you, Lord, we put our trust.
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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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O God, the world had fallen flat in the dust but your Son’s humility stood it upright once more.
Fill your faithful people with a holy joy:
take those whom you have torn away from slavery to sin
and make them rejoice eternally.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.
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May the Lord bless us and keep us from all harm; and may he lead us to eternal life.
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| Scripture readings taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet web site at http://www.randomhouse.com.
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