Evening Prayer

 

HYMN: Sine Nomine (10.10.10)

 

PSALMODY

Ant 1. The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will guard your soul.

 

Psalm 121

I raise my eyes toward the mountains.

From where will my help come?

My help comes from the LORD,

the maker of heaven and earth.

 

God will not allow your foot to slip;

your guardian does not sleep.

Truly, the guardian of Israel

never slumbers nor sleeps.

 

The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade

at your right-hand.

By day the sun cannot harm you,

nor the moon by night.

 

The LORD will guard you from all evil,

will always guard your life.

The LORD will guard your coming and going

both now and forever.

 

Glory to the Father…

 

Ant 1. The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will guard your soul.

Ant 2. If you kept a record of our sins, Lord, who could escape condemnation?

 

Psalm 130

Out of the depths I call to you, LORD;

Lord, hear my cry!

May your ears be attentive

to my cry for mercy.

 

If you, LORD, mark our sins,

Lord, who can stand?

But with you is forgiveness

and so you are revered.

I wait with longing for the LORD,

 

my soul waits for his word.

My soul looks for the Lord

More than sentinels for daybreak,

let Israel look for the LORD,

 

For with the LORD is kindness,

with him is full redemption,

And God will redeem Israel

from all their sins.

 

Glory to the Father…

 

Ant 2. If you kept a record of our sins, Lord, who could escape condemnation?

Ant 3. As the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son gives life to whom he wills.

 

Canticle

Philippians 2:6-11

Who, though he was in the form of God,

did not regard equality with God

something to be grasped.

 

Rather, he emptied himself,

taking the form of a slave,

coming in human likeness;

 

and found human in appearance,

he humbled himself,

becoming obedient to death,

even death on a cross.

 

Because of this,

God greatly exalted him

and bestowed on him the name

that is above every name,

 

that at the name of Jesus

every knee should bend,

of those in heaven and on earth

and under the earth,

and every tongue confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.

 

Glory to the Father…

 

Ant 3. As the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son gives life to whom he wills.

 

 

Reading

1 Corinthians 15:55-57

 

Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

RESPONSORY

In you, Lord, is our hope. We shall never hope in vain.

– In you, Lord, is our hope. We shall never hope in vain.

We shall dance and rejoice in your mercy.

– We shall never hope in vain.

Glory to the Father...

– In you, Lord...

 

CANTICLE OF MARY (Luke 1:46-55)

Ant. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I shall no turn away.

 

INTERCESSIONS

We acknowledge Christ the Lord through whom we hope that our lowly bodies will be made like his in glory, and we say:

Lord, your are our life and resurrection.

Christ, Son of the living God, who raised up Lazarus, your friend, from the dead,

– raise up to life and glory the dead whom you have redeemed by your precious blood.

Christ, consoler of those who mourn, you dried the tears of the family of Lazarus, of the widow’s son, an the daughter of Jarius,

– comfort those who mourn for the dead.

Christ, Savior, destroy the reign of sin in our earthly bodies, so that just as through sin we deserved punishment,

– so through you we may gain eternal life.

Christ, Redeemer, look on those who have no hope because they do not know you,

– may they receive faith in the resurrection and in the life of the world to come.

You revealed yourself to the blind man who begged for the light of his eyes,

– show your face to the dead who are still deprived of your light.

When at last our earthly home is dissolved,

– give us a home, not of earthly making, but built of eternity in heaven.

 

Our Father …

 

Prayer

 

Lord, hear our prayers.

By raising your Son from the dead, you have given us faith. Strengthen our hope that N., our brother (sister), will share in his resurrection.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, you Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, on God, for ever and ever.