Evening Prayer: Sunday 1 June 2025

Sunday 1 June 2025

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

Sunday after Ascension Day
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 80

1. Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock; *
shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim.

2. In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, *
stir up your strength and come to help us.

3. Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

4. O Lord God of hosts, *
how long will you be angered despite the prayers of your people?

5. You have fed them with the bread of tears; *
you have given them bowls of tears to drink.

6. You have made us the derision of our neighbours, *
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

7. Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

8. You have brought a vine out of Egypt; *
you cast out the nations and planted it.

9. You prepared the ground for it; *
it took root and filled the land.

10. The mountains were covered by its shadow *
and the towering cedar trees by its boughs.

11. You stretched out its tendrils to the sea *
and its branches to the river.

12. Why have you broken down its wall, *
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?

13. The wild boar of the forest has ravaged it, *
and the beasts of the field have grazed upon it.

14. Turn now, O God of hosts, *
look down from heaven;

15. behold and tend this vine; *
preserve what your strong hand has planted.

16. They burn it with fire like rubbish; *
at the rebuke of your countenance let them perish.

17. Let your hand be upon the one at your side in honour, *
the one you have made so strong for yourself.

18. And so will we never turn away from you; *
give us life, that we may call upon your name.

19. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

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)

Proverbs 4.7-18

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honour you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.’ Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

John 12.20-26

Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’ Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour.

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.