Evening Prayer: Thursday 12 June 2025

Thursday 12 June 2025

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

John Skinner, Priest, 1807, and John Skinner, Bishop, 1816
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 106.19-48
19. Israel made a bull-calf at Horeb *
and worshipped a molten image;

20. and so they exchanged their Glory *
for the image of an ox that feeds on grass.

21. They forgot you, their saviour, *
who had done great things in Egypt,

22. wonderful deeds in the land of Ham, *
and fearful things at the Red Sea.

23. So you would have destroyed them, had not Moses your chosen stood before you in the breach, *
to turn away your wrath from consuming them.

24. They refused the pleasant land *
and would not believe your promise.

25. They grumbled in their tents *
and would not listen to the voice of the Lord.

26. So you lifted your hand against them, *
to overthrow them in the wilderness,

27. to cast out their seed among the nations, *
and to scatter them throughout the lands.

28. They joined themselves to Baal-Peor *
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

29. They provoked you to anger with their actions, *
and a plague broke out among them.

30. Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, *
and the plague came to an end.

31. This was reckoned to him as righteousness *
throughout all generations for ever.

32. Again they provoked your anger at the waters of Meribah, *
so that you punished Moses because of them;

33. for they so embittered his spirit *
that he spoke rash words with his lips.

34. They did not destroy the peoples *
as the Lord had commanded them.

35. They intermingled with the heathen *
and learned their pagan ways,

36. So that they worshipped their idols, *
which became a snare to them.

37. They sacrificed their sons *
and their daughters to evil spirits.

38. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, *
which they offered to the idols of Canaan, and the land was defiled with blood

39. Thus they were polluted by their actions *
and went whoring in their evil deeds.

40. Therefore your wrath was kindled against your people *
and you abhorred your inheritance.

41. You gave them over to the hand of the heathen, *
and those who hated them ruled over them.

42. Their enemies oppressed them, *
and they were humbled under their hand.

43. Many a time did you deliver them, but they rebelled through their own devices, *
and were brought down in their iniquity.

44. Nevertheless, you saw their distress, *
when you heard their lamentation.

45. You remembered your covenant with them *
and relented in accordance with your great mercy.

46. You caused them to be pitied *
by those who held them captive.

47. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, *
that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

48. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting; *
and let all the people say, ”Amen!” Hallelujah!

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 6.1-11

One sabbath while Jesus was going through the cornfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ Jesus answered, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?’ Then he said to them, ‘The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.’ On another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. Even though he knew what they were thinking, he said to the man who had the withered hand, ‘Come and stand here.’ He got up and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, ‘I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to destroy it?’ After looking around at all of them, he said to him, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

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: Those who wait upon the Lord: * will be saved.

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 who wait upon the Lord: * will be saved.

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.