The Liturgy
of the Hours
Saturday Week 4
INVITATORY
(Please stand)
Leader: (+) Lord, open my lips
All: And my mouth shall proclaim your praise
Anthiphon:
Leader: Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his
rest.
All: Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his
rest.
Invitatory Psalm
Psalm 95
(Please remain standing)
Group 1:
Come, let us sing to the Lord
And shout with joy to the Rock who saves us.
Let us approach him with praise and thanksgiving
And sing joyful songs to the Lord.
Anthiphon:
Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.
Group 2:
The Lord is God, the mighty God,
The great king over all the gods
He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
And the highest mountains as well,
He made the sea; it belongs to him,
The dry land, too, for it was formed by his hands.
Anthiphon:
Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.
Group 1:
Come then, let us bow down and worship,
Bending the knee before the Lord, our maker.
For he is our God and we are his people,
The flock he shepherds.
Anthiphon:
Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.
Group 2:
Today, listen to the voice of the Lord:
Do not grow stubborn, as your fathers did
in the wilderness,
When at Meriba and Massah
They challenged me and provoked me,
Although they had seen all of my works.
Anthiphon:
Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.
Group 1:
Forty years I endured that generation.
I said, They are a people whose hearts go astray
And they do not know my ways.
So I swore in my anger,
They shall not enter into my rest.
Anthiphon:
Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.
Group 2:
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen
Anthiphon:
Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.
Hymn
Christ Is the Worlds Light
I.
Christ is the worlds Light, he and none other;
Born in our darkness, he became our brother.
If we have seen him,
We have seen the Father;
Glory to God on High.
II.
Christ is the worlds Peace,
He and none other; No man can serve him
and despise his brother.
Who else unites us,
one in God the Father?
Glory to God on High.
III.
Christ is the worlds Life, he and none other;
Sold once for silver,
Murdered here, our brother.
He, who redeems us,
Reigns with God the Father:
Glory to God on High.
IV.
Give God the Glory, God and none other;
Give God the glory, Spirit, Son, and the Father
Give God the glory,
God in man my brother:
Glory to God on High.
Psalmod
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Antiphon I.
We do well to sing to your name, Most High,
and proclaim your Mercy at daybreak.
Psalm 92
(Please be seated)
Group 1:
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning
and your truth in the watches of the night,
on the ten-stringed lyre and the lute,
with the murmuring sound of the harp.
Group 2:
Your deeds, O Lord, have made me glad;
for the work of your hands I shout with joy.
O Lord, how great are your works!
How deep are your designs!
The foolish man cannot know this
And the fool cannot understand.
Group 1:
Though the wicked spring up like grass
and all who do evil thrive:
they are doomed to be eternally destroyed.
But you, Lord, are eternally on high.
See how your enemies perish;
all doers of evil are scattered.
Group 2:
To me you give the wild oxs strength;
you anoint me with the purest oil.
My eyes looked in triumph on my foes;
my ears heard gladly of their fall.
The just will flourish like the palm-tree
and grow like a Lebanon cedar.
Group 1:
Planted in the house of the Lord,
they will flourish in the courts of our God,
still bearing fruit when they are old,
still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is just.
In him, my rock, there is no wrong.
(Please stand)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen.
Antiphon I.
We do well to sing to your name, Most High,
and proclaim your Mercy at daybreak.
Antiphon II
I will create a new heart in you, and breathe into you a new spirit.
Canticle Ezekiel 36:24-28
(Please be seated)
Group 2:
I will take you away from among the nations,
gather you from all the foreign lands,
and bring you back to your own land.
Group 1:
I will sprinkle clean water upon you
to cleanse you from all your impurities,
and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Group 2:
I will give you a new heart
and place a new spirit within you,
taking from your bodies your stony hearts
and giving you natural hearts.
Group 1:
I will put my spirit within you
and make you live by my statutes,
careful to observe my decrees.
Group 2:
You shall live in the land I gave your fathers;
you shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
(Please stand)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen.
Antiphon II
I will create a new heart in you, and breathe into you a new spirit.
Antiphon III
On the lips of children and infants you have found perfect praise.
Psalm 8
(Please be seated)
Group 1:
How great is your name, O Lord our God,
through all the earth!
Group 2:
Your majesty is praised above the heavens;
on the lips of children and of babes
you have found praise to foil your enemy,
to silence the foe and the rebel.
Group 1:
When I see the heavens, the work of your hands,
the moon and the stars which you arranged,
what is man that you should keep him in mind,
mortal man that you care for him?
Group 2:
Yet you have made him little less than a god;
with glory and honor you crowned him,
gave him power over the works of your hands,
put all things under his feet.
Group 1:
All of them, sheep and cattle,
yes, even the savage beasts,
birds of the air, and fish
that make their way through the waters.
Group 2:
How great is your name, O Lord our God
through all the earth!
(Please stand)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen.
Antiphon III
On the lips of children and infants you have found perfect praise.
READING - 2 Peter 3:13-15a
What we await are new heavens and a new earth where,
according to his promise, the justice of God will reside. So,
beloved, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found
without stain or defilement, and at peace in his sight. Consider
that our Lords patience is directed toward salvation.
(Sacred Silence a moment to reflect and receive in our hearts the full
resonance of the voice of the Holy Spirit and to unite our personal prayer
more closely with the word of God and public voice of the Church.)
RESPONSORY
It is my joy, O God, to praise you with song.
It is my joy, O God, to praise you with song.
To sing as I ponder your goodness,
to praise you with song.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
It is my joy, O God, to praise you with song.
CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH
(Please stand)
Antiphon
Lord, guide our feet into the way of peace.
(+)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;
he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
born of the house of his servant David.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old
that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
to give his people knowledge of salvation
by the forgiveness of their sins.
In the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever.
Amen.
Antiphon
Lord, guide our feet into the way of peace.
INTERCESSIONS
Let us adore God, who has given hope and life to the world
through his Son, and let us humbly ask him:
Lord, hear us.
Lord, Father of all, you have brought us to the dawn of this day,
make us live with Christ and praise your glory.
Lord, hear us.
You have poured out faith, hope and love upon us,
keep them firmly rooted in our hearts.
Lord, hear us.
Lord, let our eyes be always raised up to you,
so that we may swiftly answer your call.
Lord, hear us.
Protect us from the snares and enticements of evil,
keep our feet from stumbling.
Lord, hear us.
Gathering our prayers and praises into one,
let us offer the prayer Christ himself taught us:
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.
Concluding Prayer
All-powerful and ever-living God,
splendor of true light, and never ending day:
let the radiance of your coming
banish from our minds
the darkness of sin.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
DISMISSAL
(+) May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
