Evening Prayer: Friday 7 March 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs, 203
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
the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
2. send you help from the holy place of the Lord *
and strengthen you out of Zion;
3. remember all your offerings *
and accept your burnt sacrifice;
4. grant you your heart’s desire *
and prosper all your plans.
5. We will shout for joy at your victory and triumph in the name of our God; *
may the Lord grant all your requests.
6. Now I know that you, O Lord, give victory to your anointed, *
whom you will answer out of the heavenly realms with the victorious strength of your mighty hand.
7. Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses, *
but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God.
8. They collapse and fall down, *
but we will arise and stand upright.
9. O Lord, give victory to your anointed *
and answer us when we call.
Glory …
Psalm 21
how greatly he exults in your victory!
2. You have given him his heart’s desire; *
you have not denied him the request of his lips.
3. For you meet him with blessings of prosperity, *
and set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
4. He asked you for life, and you gave it to him; *
length of days, for ever and ever.
5. His honour is great, because of your victory; *
splendour and majesty have you bestowed upon him.
6. For you will give him everlasting felicity *
and will make him glad with the joy of your presence.
7. For the king trusts in you, O Lord; *
because of your loving-kindness, O Most High, he will not fall.
8. Your hand will lay hold upon all your enemies; *
your mighty hand will seize all those who hate you.
9. You will make them like a fiery furnace at the time of your appearing, O Lord; *
you will swallow them up in your wrath, and fire shall consume them.
10. You will destroy their offspring from the land *
and their descendants from among the peoples of the earth.
11. Though they intend evil against you and devise wicked schemes, *
yet they shall not prevail.
12. For you will put them to flight *
and aim your arrows at them.
13. Be exalted, O Lord, in your might; *
we will sing and praise your power.
Conclusion
Luke 6
1. Blessed are you who are poor, *
for yours is the kingdom of God.
2. Blessed are you who are hungry now, *
for you will be filled.
3. Blessed are you who weep now, *
for you will laugh.
4. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they
exclude you, revile you, and defame you *
on account of the Son of Man.
5. Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, *
for surely your reward is great in heaven;
6. for that is what their ancestors *
did to the prophets.
7. But woe to you who are rich, *
for you have received your consolation.
8. Woe to you who are full now, *
for you will be hungry.
9. Woe to you who are laughing now, *
for you will mourn and weep.
10. Woe to you when all speak well of you, *
for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.
Glory …
Antiphon: Show me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths.
READING(S)
John 1.35-42
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: Create in me a clean heart, O God. (Psalm 51.11)
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: Create in me a clean heart, O God. (Psalm 51.11)
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,
you hate nothing that you have made,
and forgive the sins of all who are penitent:
create in us a clean and contrite heart;
that, in lamenting our sinfulness,
we may receive from you, the God of all mercy,
forgiveness and perfect peace;
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.
