Evening Prayer: Monday 2 June 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Monday after Seventh Sunday of Easter
Easter
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: With you is the well of life,* and in your light we see light.
(Psalm 36.9)
Opening (from (Psalm 36))
and your faithfulness to the clouds.
2. Your righteousness is like the strong mountains, your justice like the great deep;*
you save both man and beast, O Lord.
3. How priceless is your love, O God!*
your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
4. They feast upon the abundance of your house;*
you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn
do not keep still nor hold your peace, O God;
2. for your enemies are in tumult, *
and those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3. They take secret counsel against your people *
and plot against those whom you protect.
4. They have said, ”Come, let us wipe them out from among the nations; *
let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5. They have conspired together; *
they have made an alliance against you:
6. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; *
the Moabites and the Hagarenes;
7. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; *
the Philistines and those who dwell in Tyre.
8. The Assyrians also have joined them, *
and have come to help the people of Lot.
9. Do to them as you did to Midian, *
to Sisera, and to Jabin at the river of Kishon:
10. They were destroyed at Endor; *
they became like dung upon the ground.
11. Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeëb, *
and all their commanders like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12. who said, ”Let us take for ourselves *
the fields of God as our possession.”
13. O my God, make them like whirling dust *
and like chaff before the wind;
14. Like fire that burns down a forest, *
like the flame that sets mountains ablaze.
15. Drive them with your tempest *
and terrify them with your storm;
16. Cover their faces with shame, O Lord, *
that they may seek your name.
17. Let them be disgraced and terrified for ever; *
let them be put to confusion and perish.
18. Let them know that you, whose name is Yahweh, *
you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Glory …
Conclusion
Romans 8
1. If God is for us, who is against us?*
The God who did not spare his own Son, will he not give us all things with him?
2. It is God who justifies; who is to condemn?*
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
3. Neither death nor life,*
nor angels nor principalities;
4. nor things present, nor things to come,*
nor depth, nor height;
5 nor powers, nor anything in all creation*
shall separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Glory …
Antiphon: With you is the well of life,* and in your light we see light.
READING(S)
Luke 3.15-22
Silence
Response (Psalm 30.1)
I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up; alleluia, alleluia.
I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up; alleluia, alleluia.
You have not let my enemies triumph over me.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up; alleluia, alleluia.
SONG OF MARY
Song of Mary Antiphon: I will not leave you desolate, says the Lord;* I will come to you; alleluia. (John 14.18)
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 not leave you desolate, says the Lord;* I will come to you; alleluia. (John 14.18)
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
O God, the King of Glory, hear our prayer:
that as we believe your Son Jesus Christ
to be exalted with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven;
so also we may know his presence with us now,
and to the end of time;
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.
