Evening Prayer: Saturday 1 November 2025

Saturday 1 November 2025

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

All Saints
Festivals

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: Sing to the Lord a new song;* sing the praises of God in the congregation of the faithful.
(Psalm 149.1)

Opening (from Psalm 149)

1. Let Israel rejoice in their maker;*
let the children of Zion be joyful in their sovereign.

2. For the Lord takes pleasure in this people*
and adorns the poor with victory.

3. Let the faithful rejoice in triumph;*
let them be joyful on their beds.

4. Let the praises of God be in their throat*
and a two-edged sword in their hand.

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

Psalm 34
1. I will bless the Lord at all times; *
the praise of God shall ever be in my mouth.

2. I will glory in the Lord; *
let the humble hear and rejoice.

3. Proclaim with me the greatness of the Lord; *
let us exalt the name of God together.

4. I sought the Lord, who answered me *
and delivered me out of all my terror.
5. Look upon God and be radiant, *
and let not your faces be ashamed.

6. I called in my affliction and the Lord heard me *
and saved me from all my troubles.

7. The angel of the Lord encompasses those who fear God*
and will deliver them.

8. Taste and see that the Lord is good; *
happy are they who trust in God!

9. Fear the Lord, you holy ones of God, *
for those who fear God lack nothing.

10. The young lions lack and suffer hunger, *
but those who seek the Lord lack nothing that is good.

11. Come, children, and listen to me; *
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12. Who among you loves life *
and desires long life to enjoy prosperity?

13. Keep your tongue from evil-speaking *
and your lips from lying words.

14. Turn from evil and do good; *
seek peace and pursue it.

15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, *
and the ears of God are open to their cry.

16. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, *
to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.
17. The righteous cry, and the Lord hears them *
and delivers them from all their troubles.

18. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted *
and will save those whose spirits are crushed.

19. Many are the troubles of the righteous, *
but the Lord will deliver them out of them all.

20 The Lord will keep safe all their bones; *
not one of them shall be broken.

21. Evil shall slay the wicked, *
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.

22. O Lord, you redeem the life of your servants, *
and none will be punished who trust in you.

Glory …

Conclusion


Revelation 4 and 5

1. Glory and honour and power*
are yours by right, O Lord our God;

2. For you created all things*
and by your will they have their being.

3. Glory and honour and power*
are yours by right, O Lamb who was slain;

4. For by your blood you ransomed us for God,*
from every race and language, from every people and nation.

5. To make us a kingdom of priests*
to stand and serve before our God.

6. To God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb*
be praise and honour, glory and might, for ever and ever. Amen.

Glory …

Antiphon: Sing to the Lord a new song;* sing the praises of God in the congregation of the faithful.

READING(S)

Mark 7.1-8,15-15,21-23

Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, “This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.” You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.’ there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.’ For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’

Silence

Response Psalm 147.12

You delight, Lord, in those who fear you.
You delight, Lord, in those who fear you.
Who wait in hope for your mercy.
Those who fear you.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
You delight, Lord, in those who fear you.

SONG OF MARY

Song of Mary Antiphon: Those that sow in tears* shall reap with songs of joy.

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: Those that sow in tears* shall reap with songs of joy.

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 have knit together your elect in one communion
in the mystical body of your Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord:
grant that we may attain,
with all your saints,
the whole measure of the fullness of Christ;
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.