Evening Prayer: Saturday 7 June 2025

Saturday 7 June 2025

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

Saturday 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))

1. Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens,*
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

Psalm 94
1. O Lord God of vengeance, *
O God of vengeance, show yourself.

2. Rise up, O Judge of the world; *
give the arrogant their just deserts.

3. How long shall the wicked, O Lord, *
how long shall the wicked triumph?

4. They bluster in their insolence; *
all evildoers are full of boasting.

5. They crush your people, O Lord, *
and afflict your chosen nation.

6. They murder the widow and the stranger *
and put the orphans to death.

7. Yet they say, ”The Lord does not see, *
the God of Jacob takes no notice.”

8. Consider well, you dullards among the people; *
when will you fools understand?

9. Does the One that planted the ear not hear? *
Does the One that formed the eye not see?

10. Does the One who admonishes the nations not punish? *
Does the One who teaches all the world have no knowledge?

11. The Lord knows our human thoughts; *
how like a puff of wind they are.

12. Happy are they whom you instruct, O Lord! *
whom you teach out of your law;

13. to give them rest in evil days, *
until a pit is dug for the wicked.

14. For you will not abandon your people, *
nor will you forsake your own.

15. For judgement will again be just, *
and all the true of heart will follow it.

16. Who rose up for me against the wicked? *
Who took my part against the evildoers?

17. If the Lord had not come to my help, *
I should soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

18. As often as I said, ”My foot has slipped,” *
your love, O Lord, upheld me.

19. When many cares fill my mind, *
your consolations cheer my soul.

20. Can a corrupt tribunal have any part with you, *
one which frames evil into law?

21. They conspire against the life of the just *
and condemn the innocent to death.

22. But, you, O Lord, have become my stronghold, *
and my God, the rock of my trust.

23. O Lord, you will turn their wickedness back upon them and destroy them in their own malice; *
you, the Lord our God, will destroy them.

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)

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 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.