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Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

Each day I shall draw closer to God.

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Seven canonical Hours · Psalter Week 4

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Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · Green

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  1. Officium lectionisOffice of ReadingsThe pre-dawn watch, before first light
  2. LaudsMorning PrayerAt daybreak, when the sun rises
  3. TerceMidmorning PrayerMidmorning, the traditional third hour
  4. SextMidday PrayerAt midday, the traditional sixth hour
  5. NoneMidafternoon PrayerMidafternoon, the traditional ninth hour
  6. VespersEvening PrayerAt sunset, as the day closes
  7. ComplineNight PrayerThe last prayer, shortly before retiring
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Office of Readings · Vigils / MatinsFour-week Psalter · Week IVAny hour · traditionally before dawn

Begin

If this is your first Hour, say: O Lord, open thou my lips. And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Then use the optional Invitatory below.

If another Hour already opened the day, say: O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

1

Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.

2

Under the shadow of Thy throne Still may we dwell secure; Sufficient is Thine arm alone, And our defence is sure.

3

Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same.

4

Thy word commands our flesh to dust, “Return, ye sons of men:” All nations rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again.

5

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

6

The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their lives and cares, Are carried downward by Thy flood, And lost in following years.

7

Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.

8

Like flowery fields the nations stand, Pleased with the morning light; The flowers beneath the mower’s hand Lie withering ere ’tis night.

9

Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be Thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home.

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Optional Invitatory

Psalm 95 · Douay Psalm 94

Repeat the invitatory antiphon before and between the stanzas.

Use only when this is the first Hour of the day
  1. Verse 1. Praise of Canticle, to David himself. Come, let us rejoice to our Lord: let us make jubilation to God our saviour.
  2. Verse 2. Let us prevent his face in confession: and in Psalms let us make jubilation to him.
  3. Verse 3. Because our Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods.
  4. Verse 4. Because in his hand are the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains be his.
  5. Verse 5. Because the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
  6. Verse 6. Come let us adore, and fall down: and weep before our Lord, that made us.
  7. Verse 7. Because he is the Lord our God, and we the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
  8. Verse 8. Today if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  9. Verse 9. As in the provocation according to the day of the tentation in the desert: where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
  10. Verse 10. Forty years was I offended with that generation, and said: These always err in heart.
  11. Verse 11. And these have not known my ways: as I sware in my wrath: if they shall enter into my rest.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 94
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Psalm

Psalm 102:2–12 · Douay Psalm 101

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 2. Lord hear my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.
  2. Verse 3. Turn not away thy face from me: in what day soever I am in tribulation, incline thine ear to me. In what day soever I shall invocate thee, hear me speedily.
  3. Verse 4. Because my days have vanished as smoke: and my bones are withered as a dry burnt firebrand.
  4. Verse 5. I am strucken as grass, and my heart is withered: because I have forgotten to eat my bread.
  5. Verse 6. For the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
  6. Verse 7. I am become like a pelican of the wilderness: I am become as a night crow in the house.
  7. Verse 8. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow solitary in the house-top.
  8. Verse 9. All the day did mine enemies upbraid me: and they that praised me sware against me.
  9. Verse 10. Because I did eat ashes as bread, & mingled my drink with weeping.
  10. Verse 11. At the face of thy wrath and indignation: because lifting me up thou hast thrown me down.
  11. Verse 12. My days have declined as a shadow: and I am withered as grass.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 101:2–12
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Psalm

Psalm 102:13–23 · Douay Psalm 101

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 13. But thou o Lord endurest for ever: and thy memorial in generation and generation.
  2. Verse 14. Thou rising up shalt have mercy on Sion: because it is time to have mercy on it, because the time cometh.
  3. Verse 15. Because the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
  4. Verse 16. And the Gentiles shall fear thy name o Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
  5. Verse 17. Because our Lord hath built Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.
  6. Verse 18. He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.
  7. Verse 19. Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise our Lord.
  8. Verse 20. Because he hath looked forth from his high holy place: our Lord from heaven hath looked upon the earth.
  9. Verse 21. That he might hear the groanings of the fettered: that he might loose the children of them that are slain:
  10. Verse 22. That they may shew forth the name of our Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem.
  11. Verse 23. In the assembling of the people together in one, and kings to serve our Lord.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 101:13–23
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Psalm

Psalm 102:24–29 · Douay Psalm 101

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 24. He answered him in the way of his strength: Shew me the fewness of my days.
  2. Verse 25. Call me not back in the half of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.
  3. Verse 26. In the beginning, o Lord, thou didst found the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.
  4. Verse 27. They shall perish, but thou art permanent: and they shall all wax old as a garment. And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed:
  5. Verse 28. but thou art the self-same, and thy years shall not fail.
  6. Verse 29. The children of thy servants shall inhabit: and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 101:24–29

Intentions

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Petitions after sacred reading

Response: Lord, form us by Your truth.

  • For the Church, that listening to the word of God may renew her courage, humility, and love.
  • For teachers, preachers, scholars, and students, that learning may become service rather than pride.
  • For those whose minds are burdened by confusion, fear, or despair, that light may reach them through faithful companions.
  • For us, that what we have read may pass from memory into obedience and from obedience into charity.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Gather the reading into prayer

Name before God one truth that consoled or challenged you. Ask for the grace to carry that truth into one concrete act of obedience today.

Conclude in your own words with praise of the Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01Keep silenceLet the biblical reading and the witness of the Church meet before you answer.
  2. 02RespondOffer the day’s work of study, repentance, service, and contemplation to God.
Morning Prayer · LaudsFour-week Psalter · Week IVAt dawn

Begin

If this is your first Hour, say: O Lord, open thou my lips. And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Then use the optional Invitatory below.

Otherwise say: O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

Now That the Daylight Fills the Sky

1

Now that the daylight fills the sky, We lift our hearts to God on high, That He, in all we do or say, Would keep us free from harm today:

2

Would guard our hearts and tongues from strife; From anger’s din would hide our life; From all ill sights would turn our eyes; Would close our ears from vanities:

3

Would keep our inmost conscience pure; Our souls from folly would secure; Would bid us check the pride of sense With due and holy abstinence.

4

So we, when this new day is gone, And night in turn is drawing on, With conscience by the world unstained, Shall praise His Name for victory gained.

5

All laud to God the Father be; All praise, eternal Son, to Thee; All glory, as is ever meet, To God the Holy Paraclete.

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Optional Invitatory

Psalm 95 · Douay Psalm 94

Repeat the invitatory antiphon before and between the stanzas.

Use only when this is the first Hour of the day
  1. Verse 1. Praise of Canticle, to David himself. Come, let us rejoice to our Lord: let us make jubilation to God our saviour.
  2. Verse 2. Let us prevent his face in confession: and in Psalms let us make jubilation to him.
  3. Verse 3. Because our Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods.
  4. Verse 4. Because in his hand are the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains be his.
  5. Verse 5. Because the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
  6. Verse 6. Come let us adore, and fall down: and weep before our Lord, that made us.
  7. Verse 7. Because he is the Lord our God, and we the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
  8. Verse 8. Today if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
  9. Verse 9. As in the provocation according to the day of the tentation in the desert: where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
  10. Verse 10. Forty years was I offended with that generation, and said: These always err in heart.
  11. Verse 11. And these have not known my ways: as I sware in my wrath: if they shall enter into my rest.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 94
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Psalm

Psalm 101 · Douay Psalm 100

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. A Psalm to David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, o Lord: I will sing,
  2. Verse 2. and I shall understand in the immaculate way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked through in the innocency of my heart, in the midst of my house.
  3. Verse 3. I did not propose before mine eyes any unjust thing: I hated them that do prevarication.
  4. Verse 4. Aperverse heart hath not cleaved to me: the malignant declining from me I knew not.
  5. Verse 5. One secretly detracting from his neighbour, him did I persecute. One of a proud eye, and unsatiable heart, with him I did not eat.
  6. Verse 6. Mine eyes are towards the faithful of the earth that they may sit with me. A man that walketh in the immaculate way he did minister to me.
  7. Verse 7. He that doth proudly shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things, hath not directed in the sight of mine eyes.
  8. Verse 8. In the morning did I kill all the sinners of the earth: that I might destroy out of the city of our Lord all those that work iniquity.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 100
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Canticle

Canticle of Daniel · Daniel 3:26–27, 29, 34–41

Receive this song as the Church’s answer to the Word of God.

Appointed biblical canticle

Daniel 3:26–27

  1. Verse 26. Blessed art thou o Lord the God of our fathers, and laudable, and glorious is thy name for ever:
  2. Verse 27. because thou art just in all things, which thou hast done to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgements true.

Daniel 3:29

  1. Verse 29. For we have sinned, and done unjustly revolting from thee: and we have offended in all things;

Daniel 3:34–41

  1. Verse 34. Deliver us not for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name sake, and dissipate not thy testament:
  2. Verse 35. neither take thou away thy mercy from us, for Abraham thy beloved, and Isaac thy servant, and Israel thy holy one:
  3. Verse 36. to whom thou hast spoken, promising that thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is in the sea shore.
  4. Verse 37. Because o Lord we are diminished more than all nations, and are abased in all the earth this day for our sins.
  5. Verse 38. And there is not at this time prince, & duke, and prophet, nor holocaust, nor sacrifice, nor oblation, nor incense, nor place of first fruits before thee,
  6. Verse 39. that we may find thy mercy: but in contrite mind, & spirit of humility let us be received.
  7. Verse 40. As in holocaust of rams, and bulls, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: because there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.
  8. Verse 41. And now we follow thee in all our heart, and fear thee, and seek thy face.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Daniel 3:26–27Open Daniel 3:29Open Daniel 3:34–41
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Psalm

Psalm 144:1–10 · Douay Psalm 143

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. A Psalm of David, against Goliath. Blessed be our Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to battle, and my fingers to war.
  2. Verse 2. My mercy, and my refuge: my defender, and my deliverer. My protector; and I have hoped in him, who subdueth my people under me.
  3. Verse 3. Lord what is man, that thou art made known to him? Or the son of man, that thou esteemest him?
  4. Verse 4. Man is made like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.
  5. Verse 5. Lord incline thy heavens, and descend: touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
  6. Verse 6. Lighten lightning, and thou shalt disperse them: shoot out thine arrows, and thou shalt destroy them.
  7. Verse 7. Send forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of children strangers.
  8. Verse 8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
  9. Verse 9. O God I will sing to thee a new song: in the psalter of ten strings, I will sing to thee.
  10. Verse 10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed David thy servant from the malignant sword:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 143:1–10
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Brief reading

Isaiah 55:1–3

Keep one sentence with you in silence before continuing.

Scripture reading
  1. Verse 1. All ye that thirst come to the waters: and you that have no silver, make haste, buy, & eat: come, buy without silver, and without any exchange wine and milk.
  2. Verse 2. Why bestow you silver not for bread, & your labour not for satiety? Hearing hear ye me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.
  3. Verse 3. Incline your ear, & come to me: hear, and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.
Open Isaiah 55:1–3
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Benedictus · Canticle of Zechariah

Luke 1:68–79

Stand if you are able and make the Sign of the Cross as the canticle begins.

Gospel canticle
  1. Verse 68. Blessed be Our Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:
  2. Verse 69. And hath erected the horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.
  3. Verse 70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets, that are from the beginning:
  4. Verse 71. Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us:
  5. Verse 72. To work mercy with our fathers; and to remember his holy testament,
  6. Verse 73. The oath which he sware to Abraham our father,
  7. Verse 74. that he would give to us. That without fear being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him,
  8. Verse 75. In holiness and justice before him, all our days.
  9. Verse 76. And thou child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of our Lord to prepare his ways.
  10. Verse 77. To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto remission of their sins,
  11. Verse 78. Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient, from on high, hath visited us.
  12. Verse 79. To illuminate them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Luke 1:68–79

Intentions

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Morning petitions

Response: Order this day in Your peace.

  • May our first choices be shaped by gratitude, and may every later choice return to love of God and neighbor.
  • Strengthen all who begin work, study, caregiving, or travel; make their labor honest, patient, and fruitful.
  • Guard our homes and families from contempt and haste; teach us to speak truth with gentleness.
  • When temptation comes, awaken our conscience quickly and give us freedom to choose what is good.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Offer the day

Place the hours ahead before God: the work you know, the interruptions you cannot foresee, and the person you most need grace to love well.

Ask that every task become an offering through Jesus Christ, then remain silent for one breath.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01IntercedeName the people, duties, wounds, and hopes you are carrying into this day.
  2. 02Our FatherPray the Lord’s Prayer slowly.
  3. 03Go in peaceAsk for grace to live this day in holiness, mercy, and courage. Amen.
Midmorning Prayer · TerceComplementary Psalmody · Series IAbout 9:00 AM

Begin

Pause the work in your hands and remember whose work it is.

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

Come, Holy Ghost, Who Ever One

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Come, Holy Ghost, Who ever One Art with the Father and the Son; Come, Holy Ghost, our souls possess With Thy full flood of holiness.

2

In will and deed, by heart and tongue, With all our powers, Thy praise be sung; And love light up our mortal frame, Till others catch the living flame.

3

Almighty Father, hear our cry Through Jesus Christ our Lord most high, Who with the Holy Ghost and Thee Doth live and reign eternally.

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Psalm

Psalm 120 · Douay Psalm 119

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. Agradual Canticle. When I was in tribulation I cried to our Lord: and he heard me.
  2. Verse 2. O Lord deliver my soul from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
  3. Verse 3. What may be given thee, or what may be added unto thee to a deceitful tongue?
  4. Verse 4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of desolation.
  5. Verse 5. Woe is to me, that my sojourning is prolonged: I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:
  6. Verse 6. My soul hath been long a sojourner.
  7. Verse 7. With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spake to them, they impugned me without cause.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 119
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Psalm

Psalm 121 · Douay Psalm 120

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. Agradual Canticle. I have lifted up mine eyes unto the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.
  2. Verse 2. My help is from our Lord, who made heaven and earth.
  3. Verse 3. Give he not thy foot to be moved: neither do he slumber that keepeth thee.
  4. Verse 4. Lo he shall not slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.
  5. Verse 5. Our Lord keepeth thee, our Lord is thy protection, upon thy right hand.
  6. Verse 6. By day the sun shall not burn thee: nor the moon by night.
  7. Verse 7. Our Lord doth keep thee from all evil: our Lord keep thy soul.
  8. Verse 8. Our Lord keep thy coming in, and thy going out: from hence forth now, and for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 120
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Psalm

Psalm 122 · Douay Psalm 121

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. Agradual Canticle. I rejoiced in these things, which were said to me: We shall go into the house of our Lord.
  2. Verse 2. Our feet were standing, in thy courts, o Jerusalem.
  3. Verse 3. Jerusalem, which is built as a city: whose participation is together in it-self.
  4. Verse 4. For thither did the tribes ascend, the tribes of our Lord: the testimony of Israel to confess unto the name of our Lord.
  5. Verse 5. Because seats sat there in judgment, seats upon the house of David.
  6. Verse 6. Ask ye the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and aboundance to them that love thee.
  7. Verse 7. Peace be made in thy strength: and aboundance in thy towers.
  8. Verse 8. For my brethren, and my neighbours' sakes, I spake peace of thee:
  9. Verse 9. For the house of our Lord God, I have sought good things to thee.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 121
Current psalmody alternativePraying Terce as your only Daytime Hour?Use this current Week IV psalmody instead of Psalms 120–122.
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Psalm

Psalm 119:137–144 · Douay Psalm 118

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 137. Sade. Justice. Thou art just, o Lord: and thy judgment is right.
  2. Verse 138. Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy verity exceedingly.
  3. Verse 139. My zeal hath made me to pine away: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
  4. Verse 140. Thy word is fired exceedingly: and thy servant hath loved it.
  5. Verse 141. I am a youngman, and contemned: I have not forgotten thy justifications.
  6. Verse 142. Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is verity.
  7. Verse 143. Tribulation and distress have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.
  8. Verse 144. Thy testimonies are equity for ever give me understanding, and I shall live.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 118:137–144
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Psalm

Psalm 88:2–8 · Douay Psalm 87

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 2. O Lord the God of my salvation: in the day have I cried, and in the night before thee.
  2. Verse 3. Let my prayer enter in thy sight: incline thine ear to my petition.
  3. Verse 4. Because my soul is replenished with evils: & my life hath approached to hell.
  4. Verse 5. I am accounted with them that descend into the lake. I am become as a man without help,
  5. Verse 6. free among the dead, as the wounded sleeping in the sepulchres, of whom thou art mindful no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
  6. Verse 7. They have put me in the lower lake: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
  7. Verse 8. Thy fury is confirmed upon me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 87:2–8
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Psalm

Psalm 88:9–19 · Douay Psalm 87

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 9. Thou hast made my familiars far from me: they have put me abomination to themselves. I was delivered and came not forth:
  2. Verse 10. mine eyes languished for poverty. I cried to thee o Lord all the day: I stretched out my hands to thee.
  3. Verse 11. Wilt thou do marvels to the dead: or shall physicians raise to life, and they confess to thee?
  4. Verse 12. Shall any in the sepulchre declare thy mercy, and thy truth in perdition?
  5. Verse 13. Shall thy marvelous works be known in darkness: and thy justice in the land of oblivion.
  6. Verse 14. And I o Lord have cried to thee: and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
  7. Verse 15. Why doest thou, o Lord, reject my prayer: turnest away thy face from me?
  8. Verse 16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted, humbled, and troubled.
  9. Verse 17. Thy wraths have passed upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
  10. Verse 18. They have compassed me as water all the day: they compassed me together.
  11. Verse 19. Thou hast made friend, and neighbour far from me and my familiars because of misery.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 87:9–19

Intentions

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Midmorning petitions

Response: Holy Spirit, keep us faithful.

  • Renew our attention where it has scattered, and keep small frustrations from ruling the heart.
  • Support those whose labor is hidden, repetitive, dangerous, or poorly rewarded; let their dignity be honored.
  • Give patience to everyone interrupted by another person’s need, and wisdom to know when love must change the plan.
  • Guide the next choice before us, especially where convenience and conscience pull in different directions.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Consecrate the work at hand

Name the task directly in front of you. Ask the Holy Spirit for the one virtue it now requires: attention, courage, patience, honesty, or mercy.

Return to the task deliberately, carrying the chosen virtue into its first action.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01ConsecrateOffer the next work, meeting, duty, or interruption to the Holy Spirit.
Midday Prayer · SextCurrent Daytime Psalmody · Week IVAbout noon

Begin

Pause the work in your hands and remember whose work it is.

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

O God of Truth, O Lord of Might

1

O God of truth, O Lord of might, Who, ordering time and change aright, Sendest the early morning ray, Kindling the glow of perfect day;

2

Extinguish Thou each sinful fire, And banish every ill desire; And, keeping all the body whole, Shed forth Thy peace upon the soul.

3

Almighty Father, hear our cry Through Jesus Christ our Lord most high, Who with the Holy Ghost and Thee Doth live and reign eternally.

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Psalm

Psalm 119:137–144 · Douay Psalm 118

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 137. Sade. Justice. Thou art just, o Lord: and thy judgment is right.
  2. Verse 138. Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy verity exceedingly.
  3. Verse 139. My zeal hath made me to pine away: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
  4. Verse 140. Thy word is fired exceedingly: and thy servant hath loved it.
  5. Verse 141. I am a youngman, and contemned: I have not forgotten thy justifications.
  6. Verse 142. Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is verity.
  7. Verse 143. Tribulation and distress have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.
  8. Verse 144. Thy testimonies are equity for ever give me understanding, and I shall live.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 118:137–144
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Psalm

Psalm 88:2–8 · Douay Psalm 87

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 2. O Lord the God of my salvation: in the day have I cried, and in the night before thee.
  2. Verse 3. Let my prayer enter in thy sight: incline thine ear to my petition.
  3. Verse 4. Because my soul is replenished with evils: & my life hath approached to hell.
  4. Verse 5. I am accounted with them that descend into the lake. I am become as a man without help,
  5. Verse 6. free among the dead, as the wounded sleeping in the sepulchres, of whom thou art mindful no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
  6. Verse 7. They have put me in the lower lake: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
  7. Verse 8. Thy fury is confirmed upon me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 87:2–8
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Psalm

Psalm 88:9–19 · Douay Psalm 87

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 9. Thou hast made my familiars far from me: they have put me abomination to themselves. I was delivered and came not forth:
  2. Verse 10. mine eyes languished for poverty. I cried to thee o Lord all the day: I stretched out my hands to thee.
  3. Verse 11. Wilt thou do marvels to the dead: or shall physicians raise to life, and they confess to thee?
  4. Verse 12. Shall any in the sepulchre declare thy mercy, and thy truth in perdition?
  5. Verse 13. Shall thy marvelous works be known in darkness: and thy justice in the land of oblivion.
  6. Verse 14. And I o Lord have cried to thee: and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
  7. Verse 15. Why doest thou, o Lord, reject my prayer: turnest away thy face from me?
  8. Verse 16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted, humbled, and troubled.
  9. Verse 17. Thy wraths have passed upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
  10. Verse 18. They have compassed me as water all the day: they compassed me together.
  11. Verse 19. Thou hast made friend, and neighbour far from me and my familiars because of misery.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 87:9–19

Intentions

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Midday petitions

Response: Christ, be our peace at the heart of the day.

  • Remember those who are weary, hungry, overheated, displaced, or without safe rest; move us toward practical mercy.
  • Give integrity to those entrusted with public power, money, judgment, or the safety of others.
  • Where conflict has hardened, loosen the grip of pride and make room for truth, repentance, and repair.
  • Show us where the morning bore good fruit and where we need to begin again without discouragement.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Begin the day again

Review the morning briefly: give thanks for one grace, admit one failure without excuse, and place the remaining work under God’s mercy.

Ask Christ to make the rest of the day more truthful, peaceful, and attentive than the first half.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01ReturnAsk for a recollected heart through the labor and decisions of the afternoon.
Midafternoon Prayer · NoneComplementary Psalmody · Series IIIAbout 3:00 PM

Begin

Pause the work in your hands and remember whose work it is.

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

O God, Creation’s Secret Force

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O God, creation’s secret force, Thyself unmoved, all motion’s source, Who, from the morn till evening’s ray, Through all its changes guidest the day:

2

Grant us, when this short life is past, The glorious evening that shall last; That, by a holy death attained, Eternal glory may be gained.

3

Almighty Father, hear our cry Through Jesus Christ our Lord most high, Who with the Holy Ghost and Thee Doth live and reign eternally.

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Psalm

Psalm 126 · Douay Psalm 125

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. Agradual Canticle. When our Lord turned the captivity of Sion: we were made as men comforted.
  2. Verse 2. Then was our mouth replenished with joy: and our tongue with exultation. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: Our Lord hath done magnifically with them.
  3. Verse 3. Our Lord hath done magnifically with us: we are made joyful.
  4. Verse 4. Turn our captivity, o Lord, as a torrent in the South.
  5. Verse 5. They that sow in tears, shall reap in joyfulness.
  6. Verse 6. Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. But coming they shall come with exultation, carrying their sheaves.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 125
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Psalm

Psalm 127 · Douay Psalm 126

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. Agradual Canticle of Salomon. Unless our Lord build the house, they have laboured in vain that build it. Unless our Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
  2. Verse 2. It is vain for you to rise before light: rise ye after ye have sitten, which eat the bread of sorrow.
  3. Verse 3. When he shall give sleep to his beloved: behold the inheritance of our Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.
  4. Verse 4. As arrows in the hand of the mighty: so are the children of them that are shaken.
  5. Verse 5. Blessed is the man that hath filled his desire of them: he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 126
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Psalm

Psalm 128 · Douay Psalm 127

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. Agradual Canticle. Blessed are all that fear our Lord, that walk in his ways.
  2. Verse 2. Because thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
  3. Verse 3. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, in the sides of thy house. Thy children as young plants of olive-trees, round about thy table.
  4. Verse 4. Behold so shall the man be blessed, that feareth our Lord.
  5. Verse 5. Our Lord out of Sion bless thee: and that thou mayst see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
  6. Verse 6. And that thou mayst see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 127
Current psalmody alternativePraying None as your only Daytime Hour?Use this current Week IV psalmody instead of Psalms 126–128.
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Psalm

Psalm 119:137–144 · Douay Psalm 118

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 137. Sade. Justice. Thou art just, o Lord: and thy judgment is right.
  2. Verse 138. Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy verity exceedingly.
  3. Verse 139. My zeal hath made me to pine away: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
  4. Verse 140. Thy word is fired exceedingly: and thy servant hath loved it.
  5. Verse 141. I am a youngman, and contemned: I have not forgotten thy justifications.
  6. Verse 142. Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is verity.
  7. Verse 143. Tribulation and distress have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.
  8. Verse 144. Thy testimonies are equity for ever give me understanding, and I shall live.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 118:137–144
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Psalm

Psalm 88:2–8 · Douay Psalm 87

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 2. O Lord the God of my salvation: in the day have I cried, and in the night before thee.
  2. Verse 3. Let my prayer enter in thy sight: incline thine ear to my petition.
  3. Verse 4. Because my soul is replenished with evils: & my life hath approached to hell.
  4. Verse 5. I am accounted with them that descend into the lake. I am become as a man without help,
  5. Verse 6. free among the dead, as the wounded sleeping in the sepulchres, of whom thou art mindful no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
  6. Verse 7. They have put me in the lower lake: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
  7. Verse 8. Thy fury is confirmed upon me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 87:2–8
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Psalm

Psalm 88:9–19 · Douay Psalm 87

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 9. Thou hast made my familiars far from me: they have put me abomination to themselves. I was delivered and came not forth:
  2. Verse 10. mine eyes languished for poverty. I cried to thee o Lord all the day: I stretched out my hands to thee.
  3. Verse 11. Wilt thou do marvels to the dead: or shall physicians raise to life, and they confess to thee?
  4. Verse 12. Shall any in the sepulchre declare thy mercy, and thy truth in perdition?
  5. Verse 13. Shall thy marvelous works be known in darkness: and thy justice in the land of oblivion.
  6. Verse 14. And I o Lord have cried to thee: and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
  7. Verse 15. Why doest thou, o Lord, reject my prayer: turnest away thy face from me?
  8. Verse 16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted, humbled, and troubled.
  9. Verse 17. Thy wraths have passed upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
  10. Verse 18. They have compassed me as water all the day: they compassed me together.
  11. Verse 19. Thou hast made friend, and neighbour far from me and my familiars because of misery.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 87:9–19

Intentions

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Midafternoon petitions

Response: Stay with us, Lord, and make our labor fruitful.

  • Give endurance to those nearing the limit of their strength, and teach us to receive needed rest without shame.
  • Be near to the injured, the grieving, the imprisoned, and all who experience this hour as abandonment.
  • Bless work that will never be praised and acts of service that no one else will notice.
  • Keep haste from making us careless; help us finish what should be finished and release what must wait.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Persevere without hardening

Bring God the fatigue, resistance, or disappointment of this hour. Ask for steady faithfulness without resentment or self-reliance.

Choose one remaining duty to complete with care, and one burden to leave in God’s hands.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01PersevereEntrust the unfinished, the difficult, and the people encountered today to Christ.
Evening Prayer · VespersFour-week Psalter · Week IVAt evening

Begin

Make the Sign of the Cross and lay the day before God.

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

O Blest Creator of the Light

1

O blest Creator of the light, Who mak’st the day with radiance bright, And o’er the forming world didst call The light from chaos first of all.

2

Whose wisdom joined in meet array The morn and eve, and named them day: Night comes with all its darkling fears; Regard Thy people’s prayers and tears.

3

Lest, sunk in sin, and whelmed with strife, They lose the gift of endless life; While thinking but the thoughts of time, They weave new chains of woe and crime.

4

But grant them grace that they may strain The heavenly gate and prize to gain: Each harmful lure aside to cast, And purge away each error past.

5

O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Doth live and reign eternally.

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Psalm

Psalm 137:1–6 · Douay Psalm 136

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. A Psalm of David for Jeremy. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: whilst we remembered Sion.
  2. Verse 2. On the willows in the midst thereof, we hanged up our instruments.
  3. Verse 3. Because there they that led us captive, demanded of us words of songs. And they that led us away: Sing ye an hymn to us of the songs of Sion.
  4. Verse 4. How shall we sing the song of our Lord in a strange land?
  5. Verse 5. If I shall forget thee, o Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
  6. Verse 6. Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I shall not set Jerusalem in the beginning of my joy.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 136:1–6
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Psalm

Psalm 138 · Douay Psalm 137

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. To David himself. I will confess to thee, o Lord, in my whole heart: because thou hast heard the words of my mouth. In the sight of Angels I will sing to thee:
  2. Verse 2. I will adore toward thy holy temple, and will confess to thy name: For thy mercy, and thy truth: because thou hast magnified above every thing thy holy name.
  3. Verse 3. In what day soever I shall invocate thee, hear me: thou wilt multiply strength in my soul.
  4. Verse 4. Let all the kings of the earth, o Lord, confess to thee: because they have heard all the words of thy mouth:
  5. Verse 5. And let them sing in the ways of our Lord: because great is the glory of our Lord.
  6. Verse 6. Because our Lord is high, and he beholdeth low things: and high things he knoweth far off.
  7. Verse 7. If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and upon the wrath of mine enemies thou hast extended thy hand, and thy right hand hath saved me.
  8. Verse 8. Our Lord will repay for me: o Lord thy mercy is for ever: despise not the works of thy hands.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 137
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Canticle

Canticle of the redeemed · Revelation 4:11; 5:9–10, 12

Receive this song as the Church’s answer to the Word of God.

Appointed biblical canticle

Revelation 4:11

  1. Verse 11. Thou art worthy O Lord our God to receive glory and honour and power: because thou hast created all things, and for thy will they were and have been created.

Revelation 5:9–10

  1. Verse 9. And they sang a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy o Lord to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God in thy blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
  2. Verse 10. and hast made us to our God a Kingdom and Priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.

Revelation 5:12

  1. Verse 12. saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain, is worthy to receive power, and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and benediction.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Revelation 4:11Open Revelation 5:9–10Open Revelation 5:12
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Brief reading

Colossians 3:16

Keep one sentence with you in silence before continuing.

Scripture reading
  1. Verse 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you aboundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing your own selves, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, in grace singing in your hearts to God.
Open Colossians 3:16
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Magnificat · Canticle of Mary

Luke 1:46–55

Stand if you are able and make the Sign of the Cross as the canticle begins.

Gospel canticle
  1. Verse 46. And Mary said: MY Soul doth magnify our Lord:
  2. Verse 47. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
  3. Verse 48. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from hence forth all generations shall call me blessed.
  4. Verse 49. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name.
  5. Verse 50. And his mercy from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.
  6. Verse 51. He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath dispersed the proud in the conceit of their heart.
  7. Verse 52. He hath deposed the mighty from their seat, & hath exalted the humble.
  8. Verse 53. The hungry he hath filled with good things: and the rich he hath sent away empty.
  9. Verse 54. He hath received Israel his child, being mindful of his mercy,
  10. Verse 55. As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Luke 1:46–55

Intentions

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Evening petitions

Response: Receive our thanks and gather us into mercy.

  • For every grace received today, especially the good we failed to notice when it arrived, we give thanks.
  • For our sins and failures, give us honest repentance and the courage to repair what can still be repaired.
  • Bring peace to homes marked by tension, absence, or fear; protect children and all who are vulnerable.
  • Remain with the lonely, the sick, the dying, and those who wait beside them through the evening.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Return the day to God

Recall one gift, one sorrow, one sin, and one person from the day. Give thanks, ask mercy, and entrust each of them to God without trying to control the outcome.

Ask for a peaceful evening and a heart ready to serve again tomorrow through Christ.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01Give thanksName the graces of this day, including the quiet ones that were easy to miss.
  2. 02IntercedeEntrust the Church, the suffering, and the dead to God.
  3. 03Our FatherPray the Lord’s Prayer slowly.
Night Prayer · ComplineOne-week Night Prayer cycleBefore sleep

Begin

Become still. Review the day with gratitude, sorrow, and honesty; then ask God’s mercy.

O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Hymn

Before the Ending of the Day

1

Before the ending of the day, Creator of the world, we pray, That with Thy wonted favour Thou Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.

2

From all ill dreams defend our eyes, From nightly fears and fantasies; Tread under foot our ghostly foe, That no pollution we may know.

3

O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Doth live and reign eternally.

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Psalm

Psalm 143:1–11 · Douay Psalm 142

Pray the words aloud or under your breath; do not hurry the line that resists you.

Appointed psalmody
  1. Verse 1. A Psalm of David, when Absalom his son persecuted him. Lord hear my prayer: with thine ears receive my petition in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.
  2. Verse 2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: because no man living shall be justified in thy sight.
  3. Verse 3. Because the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath humbled my life in the earth. He hath set me in obscure places as the dead of the world:
  4. Verse 4. and my spirit is in anguish upon me, within me my heart is troubled.
  5. Verse 5. I was mindful of old days, I have meditated in all thy works: in the facts of thy hands did I meditate.
  6. Verse 6. I have stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
  7. Verse 7. Hear me quickly, o Lord: my spirit hath fainted. Turn not away thy face from me: and I shall be like to them that descend into the lake.
  8. Verse 8. Make me hear thy mercy in the morning: because I have hoped in thee. Make the way known to me, wherein I may walk: because I have lifted up my soul to thee.
  9. Verse 9. Deliver me from mine enemies, o Lord, to thee I have fled:
  10. Verse 10. teach me to do thy will, because thou art my God. Thy good spirit will conduct me into the right way:
  11. Verse 11. for thy name sake, o Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thine equity. Thou wilt bring forth my soul out of tribulation:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Psalms 142:1–11
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Brief reading

1 Peter 5:8–9

Keep one sentence with you in silence before continuing.

Scripture reading
  1. Verse 8. Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he may devour.
  2. Verse 9. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the self-same affliction is made to that your fraternity which is in the world.
Open 1 Peter 5:8–9
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Nunc dimittis · Canticle of Simeon

Luke 2:29–32

Stand if you are able and make the Sign of the Cross as the canticle begins.

Gospel canticle
  1. Verse 29. Now Thou doest dismiss thy servant O Lord, according to thy word in peace.
  2. Verse 30. Because mine eyes have seen thy Salvation,
  3. Verse 31. Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples:
  4. Verse 32. A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, & the glory of thy people Israel.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Open Luke 2:29–32

Intentions

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Night petitions

Response: Into Your hands, Lord, we rest.

  • Receive the whole truth of this day: what was faithful, what was wounded, what was sinful, and what remains unfinished.
  • Grant forgiveness where we have failed, and free us from rehearsing either our own offenses or the offenses of others.
  • Protect all who work, travel, serve, watch, or wake in danger while others sleep.
  • Remember the dead, especially those known to us, and comfort everyone who carries fresh grief into the night.

Original personal devotional material—not official ICEL text. At Hours other than Morning and Evening Prayer, these intentions are an optional devotion outside the official structure.

Conclude

Entrust the night

Place your body, mind, home, unfinished concerns, and the people you love into God’s care. Release each one by name.

Ask for protection through the night, readiness for death, and grateful awakening if another day is given.

Complete the Hour

  1. 01SurrenderPlace your body, memory, unfinished work, and everyone you love under God’s protection.
  2. 02RestMay the almighty Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. Amen.

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