Evening Prayer: Friday 8 August 2025

Friday 8 August 2025

This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.

Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221
Week A

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: O Lord my God, how excellent is your greatness!* you are clothed with majesty and splendour.
(Psalm 104.1)

Opening (from Psalm 104.1)

1. You appointed the moon to mark the seasons,*
and the sun knows the time of its setting.

2. You make darkness that it may be night,*
in which all the beasts of the forest prowl.

3. May your glory, O Lord, endure for ever;*
may you rejoice in all his works.

4. May these words of mine please you;*
I will rejoice in the Lord.

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

Psalm 97

1. The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; *
let the multitude of the isles be glad.

2. Clouds and darkness are round about you, O Lord; *
righteousness and justice are the foundations of your throne.

3. A fire goes before you *
and burns up your enemies on every side.

4. Your lightnings light up the world; *
the earth sees it and is afraid.

5. The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, *
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6. The heavens declare your righteousness, *
and all the peoples see your glory.

7. Confounded be all who worship carved images and delight in false gods! *
Bow down before the Lord, all you gods.

8. Zion hears and is glad, and the cities of Judah rejoice, *
because of your judgements, O Lord.

9. For you are the Lord, most high over all the earth; *
you are exalted far above all gods.

10. The Lord loves those who hate evil, *
preserving the lives of the saints and delivering them from the hand of the wicked.

11. Light has sprung up for the righteous, *
and joyful gladness for those who are truehearted.

12. Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, *
and give thanks to the holy name of the Lord.

Glory …

Psalm 98

1. Sing a new song to the Lord, who has done marvellous things, *
whose mighty hand and holy arm have won the victory.

2. O Lord, you have made known the victory; *
you have openly shown your righteousness in the sight of the nations.

3. You remember your mercy and faithfulness to the house of Israel, *
and all the ends of the earth have seen your victory, O God.

4. Shout with joy to the Lord, all you lands; *
lift up your voice, rejoice and sing.

5. Sing to the Lord with the harp, *
with the harp and the voice of song.

6. With trumpets and the sound of the horn *
shout with joy before our sovereign, the Lord.

7. Let the sea make a noise and all that is in it, *
the lands and those who dwell therein.

8. Let the rivers clap their hands, *
and let the hills ring out with joy before the Lord, who is coming to judge the earth.

9. In righteousness shall God judge the world *
and the peoples with equity.

Conclusion

from 1 John 4

1. Beloved let us love one another,*
for love is of God;

2. And those who love are born of God*
and know God.

3. Those who do not love do not know God,*
for God is love.

4. In this the love of God was made manifest among us,*
that God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

5 In this is love: not that we loved God,*
but that God loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.

6. Beloved, if God so loved us,*
we also ought to love one another.

Glory …

Antiphon: O Lord my God, how excellent is your greatness!* you are clothed with majesty and splendour.

READING(S)

Exodus 19.3-8a,16-20

Then Moses went up to God; the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, ‘Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the Israelites: You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine, but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.’ So Moses came, summoned the elders of the people, and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him. The people all answered as one: ‘Everything that the Lord has spoken we will do.’ Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain, and a blast of a trumpet so loud that all the people who were in the camp trembled. Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently. As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder. When the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

1 Peter 2.4-10

Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in scripture: ‘See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.’ To you then who believe, he is precious; but for those who do not believe, ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner’, and ‘A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.’ They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Silence

Response Psalm. 119.105

Your word is a lantern to my feet.
Your word is a lantern to my feet.
A light upon my path.
A lantern to my feet.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
Your word is a lantern to my feet.

SONG OF MARY

Song of Mary Antiphon: Come, let us return to the Lord: * for our God will richly pardon.

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: Come, let us return to the Lord: * for our God will richly pardon.

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

Grant to us, Lord, the spirit
to think on those things that are right,
and always to be ready to do them:
that we, who without you cannot be alive,
may have the strength to live according to your will;
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.