Evening Prayer: Friday 4 April 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Week 4 of Lent
Lent
O God make speed to save us;
O Lord make haste to help us.
Glory to God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit;*
as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever.
Amen.
PSALMODY
Antiphon: Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths.
(Psalm 25.3)
Opening (from Psalm 25)
in you have I trusted all the day long.
2. Remember, O Lord, your compassion and love,*
for they are from everlasting.
3. Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions;*
remember me according to your love.
4. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,*
for my hope has been in you.
Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn
by day and night I cry to you.
2. Let my prayer enter into your presence; *
incline your ear to my lamentation.
3. For I am full of trouble; *
my life is at the brink of the grave.
4. I am counted among those who go down to the
Pit; *
I have become like one who has no strength;
5. lost among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, *
whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.
6. You have laid me in the depths of the Pit, *
in dark places, and in the abyss.
7. Your anger weighs upon me heavily, *
and all your great waves overwhelm me.
8. You have put my friends far from me;
you have made me to be abhorred by them; *
I am in prison and cannot get free.
9. My sight has failed me because of trouble; *
Lord, I have called upon you daily;
I have stretched out my hands to you.
10. Do you work wonders for the dead? *
Will those who have died stand up and give you thanks?
11. Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave *
or your faithfulness in the land of destruction?
12. Will your wonders be known in the dark? *
or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?
13. But as for me, O Lord, I cry to you for help; *
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14. Lord, why have you rejected me? *
Why have you hidden your face from me?
15. Ever since my youth, I have been wretched and at the point of death; *
I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.
16. Your blazing anger has swept over me; *
your terrors have destroyed me;
17. They surround me all day long like a flood; *
they encompass me on every side.
18. My friend and my neighbour you have put away from me, *
and darkness is my only companion.
Glory …
Conclusion
Song of Anselm
1. Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you;*
you are gentle with us as a mother with her children.
2. Often you weep over our sins and our pride,*
tenderly you draw us from hatred and judgement.
3. You comfort us in sorrow and bind up our wounds,*
in sickness you nurse us and with pure milk you feed us.
4. Jesus, by your dying, we are born to new life;*
by your anguish and labour we come forth in joy.
5. Despair turns to hope through your sweet goodness;*
through your gentleness, we find comfort in fear.
6. Your warmth gives life to the dead,*
your touch makes sinners righteous.
7. Lord Jesus, in your mercy, heal us;*
in your love and tenderness, remake us.
8. In your compassion, bring grace and forgiveness,*
for the beauty of heaven, may your love prepare us.
Glory …
Antiphon: Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths.
READING(S)
John 6.52-59
Silence
Response (Psalm 86.15)
You, Lord, are gracious and full of compassion.
You, Lord, are gracious and full of compassion.
Slow to anger, full of kindness and truth.
Full of compassion.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
You, Lord, are gracious and full of compassion.
SONG OF MARY
Song of Mary Antiphon: I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and before you. (Luke 15.18)
1 My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,*my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour;
2 for he has looked with favour on his lowly servant;*
from this day all generations will call me blessed.
3 The Almighty has done great things for me*
and holy is his name.
4 He has mercy on those who fear him*
in every generation.
5 He has shown the strength of his arm;*
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
6 He has cast down the mighty from their thrones*
and has lifted up the lowly.
7 He has filled the hungry with good things,*
and the rich he has sent away empty.
8 He has come to the help of his servant Israel,*
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
9 the promise he made to our forebears,*
to Abraham and his children for ever.
Glory to the Father... (may be said by all)
Song of Mary Antiphon: I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and before you. (Luke 15.18)
PRAYERS
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Do not bring us to the time of trial,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and for ever. Amen.
Collect of the Day
Almighty God, grant that we, who are weighed down by our sins,
may be relieved and encouraged by your grace;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end.
Amen
Lord God almighty, come and dispel the darkness from our hearts, that in the radiance of your brightness we may know you, the only unfading light, glorious in all eternity.
Amen.
Let us bless the Lord:
Thanks be to God!
The God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing:
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
