Evening Prayer: Tuesday 25 November 2025
This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.
Tuesday after Pentecost 24
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)
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
for the waters have risen up to my neck.
2. I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no firm ground for my feet.*
I have come into deep waters, and the torrent washes over me.
3. I have grown weary with my crying; my throat is inflamed; *
my eyes have failed from looking for my God.
4. Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; *
my lying foes who would destroy me are mighty. Must I then give back what I never stole?
5. O God, you know my foolishness, *
and my faults are not hidden from you.
6. Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, Lord God of hosts; *
let not those who seek you be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.
7. Surely, for your sake have I suffered reproach, *
and shame has covered my face.
8. I have become a stranger to my own kindred, *
an alien to my mother’s children.
9. Zeal for your house has eaten me up; *
the scorn of those who scorn you has fallen upon me.
10. I humbled myself with fasting, *
but that was turned to my reproach.
11. I put on sack-cloth also, *
and became a byword among them.
12. Those who sit at the gate murmur against me, *
and the drunkards make songs about me.
13. But as for me, this is my prayer to you, *at the time you have set, O Lord:
“In your great mercy, O God, *answer me with your unfailing help.
14. Save me from the mire; *do not let me sink;
let me be rescued from those who hate me *and out of the deep waters.
15. Let not the torrent of waters wash over me, neither let the deep swallow me up; *
do not let the Pit shut its mouth upon me.
16. Answer me, O Lord, for your love is kind; *
in your great compassion, turn to me.”
17. “Hide not your face from your servant; *
be swift and answer me, for I am in distress.
18. Draw near to me and redeem me; *
because of my enemies deliver me.
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)
Matthew 5.38-48
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: All wisdom comes from God: * and was with God before time.
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: All wisdom comes from God: * and was with God before time.
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
Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people:
that they, richly bearing the fruit of good works,
may by you be richly rewarded;
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.
