Evening Prayer: Saturday 9 August 2025

Saturday 9 August 2025

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

Saturday after Pentecost 8
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 102
1. Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come before you; *
hide not your face from me in the day of my trouble.

2. Incline your ear to me; *
when I call, make haste to answer me,

3. For my days drift away like smoke, *
and my bones are hot as burning coals.

4. My heart is smitten like grass and withered, *
so that I forget to eat my bread.

5. Because of the voice of my groaning *
I am but skin and bones.

6. I have become like a vulture in the wilderness, *
like an owl among the ruins.

7. I lie awake and groan; *
I am like a sparrow, lonely on a house-top.

8. My enemies revile me all day long, *
and those who scoff at me have taken an oath against me.

9. For I have eaten ashes for bread *
and mingled my drink with weeping.

10. Because of your indignation and wrath *
you have lifted me up and thrown me away.

11. My days pass away like a shadow, *
and I wither like the grass.

12. But you, O Lord, endure for ever, *
and your name from age to age.

13. You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to have mercy upon her; *
indeed, the appointed time has come.

14. For your servants love her very rubble, *
and are moved to pity even for her dust.

15. The nations shall fear your name, O Lord, *
and all the rulers of the earth your glory.

16. For you, O Lord, will build up Zion, *
and your glory will appear.

17. You will look with favour on the prayer of the homeless; *
you will not despise their plea.

18. Let this be written for a future generation, *
so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord.

19. For you, O Lord, looked down from your holy place on high; *
from the heavens you beheld the earth;

20. that you might hear the groan of the captive *
and set free those condemned to die;

21. so that they may declare in Zion the name of the Lord, *
and your praise in Jerusalem;

22. when the peoples are gathered together, *
and the nations also, to serve the Lord.

23. You have brought down my strength before my time; *
you have shortened the number of my days;

24. And I said, ”O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; *
your years endure throughout all generations.

25. In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, *
and the heavens are the work of your hands;

26. They shall perish, but you will endure; they all shall wear out like a garment; *
as clothing you will change them, and they shall be changed;

27. But you are always the same, *
and your years will never end.

28. The children of your servants shall continue, *
and their offspring shall stand fast in your sight”.

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)

Luke 24.44-53

Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.’ Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

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

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.