Evening Prayer: Saturday 14 June 2025

Saturday 14 June 2025

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

Basil of Caesarea, 379; Gregory of Nazianzus, c 390; Gregory of Nyssa, 394, Bishops and Teachers of the Faith
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 109
1. Hold not your tongue, *
O God of my praise.

2. For the mouth of the wicked, the mouth of the deceitful, is opened against me; *
they speak to me with a lying tongue.

3. They encompass me with hateful words *
and fight against me without a cause.

4. Despite my love, they accuse me; *
but as for me, I pray for them.

5. They repay evil for good, *
and hatred for my love.

6. Set the wicked against them, *
and let an accuser stand at their side.

7. When they are judged, let them be found guilty, *
and let their appeal be in vain.

8. Let their days be few, *
and let another take their office.

9. Let their children be orphaned, *
and their spouses widowed.

10. Let their children be waifs and beggars; *
let them be driven from the ruins of their homes.

11. Let creditors seize everything they have; *
let strangers plunder their gains.

12. Let there be no one to show their kindness, *
and none to pity their orphaned children.

13. Let their descendants be destroyed, *
and their name be blotted out in the next generation.

14. Let the wickedness of their ancestors be remembered before the Lord, *
and their mothers’ sin not be blotted out;

15. Let their sin be always before the Lord; *
but let their names be rooted out from the earth;

16. because they did not remember to show mercy, *
but persecuted the poor and needy and sought to kill the brokenhearted.

17. They loved cursing, let it come upon them; *
they took no delight in blessing, let it depart from them.

18. They put on cursing like a garment, *
let it soak into their bodies like water and into their bones like oil;

19. Let it be to them like the cloak which they wrap around themselves, *
and like the belt that they wear continually.

20. Let this be the recompense from the Lord to my accusers, *
and to those who speak evil against me.

21. But you, O Lord my God, oh, deal with me according to your name; *
for your tender mercy’s sake, deliver me.

22. For I am poor and needy, *
and my heart is wounded within me.

23. I have faded away like a shadow when it lengthens; *
I am shaken off like a locust.

24. My knees are weak through fasting, *
and my flesh is wasted and gaunt.

25. I have become a reproach to them; *
they see and shake their heads.

26. Help me, O Lord my God; *
save me for your mercy’s sake.

27. Let them know that this is your hand, *
that you, O Lord, have done it.

28. They may curse, but you will bless; *
let those who rise up against me be put to shame, and your servant will rejoice.

29. Let my accusers be clothed with disgrace *
and wrap themselves in their shame as in a cloak.

30. I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth; *
in the midst of the multitude will I praise God;

31. because the Lord stands at the side of the needy, *
to save their lives from those who would condemn them.

Glory …

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)

1 Samuel 12.1-5

Samuel said to all Israel, ‘I have listened to you in all that you have said to me, and have set a king over you. See, it is the king who leads you now; I am old and grey, but my sons are with you. I have led you from my youth until this day. Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.’ They said, ‘You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from the hand of anyone.’ He said to them, ‘The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.’ And they said, ‘He is witness.’

Acts 20.17-35

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, asking the elders of the church to meet him. When they came to him, he said to them: ‘You yourselves know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, enduring the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews. I did not shrink from doing anything helpful, proclaiming the message to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house, as I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus. And now, as a captive to the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me. But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace. ‘And now I know that none of you, among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom, will ever see my face again. Therefore I declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son. I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them. Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who are sanctified. I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing. You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions. In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” ’

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: The righteous will shine like the sun: * in the kingdom of God.

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: The righteous will shine like the sun: * in the kingdom of God.

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, our hope and strength,
the source and end of all our prayers:
because our mortal nature is weak
we can do nothing good without your help;
support us with your grace,
that in keeping your commandments,
we may ever remain in your love;
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.