Evening Prayer: Tuesday 27 May 2025

Tuesday 27 May 2025

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

Tuesday after Sixth Sunday After 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 73
1. Truly, God is good to Israel, *
to those who are pure in heart.

2. But as for me, my feet had nearly slipped; *
I had almost tripped and fallen;

3. because I envied the proud *
and saw the prosperity of the wicked:

4. For they suffer no pain, *
and their bodies are sleek and sound;

5. in the misfortunes of others they have no share; *
they are not afflicted as others are;

6. therefore they wear their pride like a necklace *
and wrap their violence about them like a cloak.

7. Their iniquity comes from gross minds, *
and their hearts overflow with wicked thoughts.

8. They scoff and speak maliciously; *
out of their haughtiness they plan oppression.

9. They set their mouths against the heavens, *
and their evil speech runs through the world.

10. And so the people turn to them *
and find in them no fault.

11. They say, ”How should God know? *
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

12. So then, these are the wicked; *
always at ease, they increase their wealth.

13. In vain have I kept my heart clean, *
and washed my hands in innocence.

14. I have been afflicted all day long, *
and punished every morning.

15. Had I gone on speaking this way, *
I should have betrayed the generation of your children.

16. When I tried to understand these things, *
it was too hard for me;

17. Until I entered the sanctuary of God *
and discerned the end of the wicked.

18. Surely, you set them in slippery places; *
you cast them down in ruin.

19. Oh, how suddenly do they come to destruction, *
come to an end, and perish from terror!

20. Like a dream when one awakens, O Lord, *
when you arise you will make their image vanish.

21. When my mind became embittered, *
I was sorely wounded in my heart.

22. I was stupid and had no understanding; *
I was like a brute beast in your presence.

23. Yet I am always with you; *
you hold me by my hand.

24. You will guide me by your counsel, *
and afterwards receive me with glory.

25. Whom have I in heaven but you? *
and having you I desire nothing upon earth.

26. Though my flesh and my heart should waste away, *
you are the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

27. Truly, those who forsake you will perish; *
you destroy all who are unfaithful.

28. But it is good for me to be near you; I have made you, Lord God, my refuge. *
I will speak of all your works in the gates of the city of Zion.

Glory …

Conclusion


Colossians 1

1. Give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;*
he has delivered us from the dominion of darkness.

2. He has transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,*
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

3. He is the image of the invisible God,*
the first-born of all creation.

4. For in him all things were created,*
in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.

5 He is the head of the body, the church;*
he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead.

6. In him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell,*
to reconcile all things to himself, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Glory …

Antiphon: With you is the well of life,* and in your light we see light.

READING(S)

Luke 11.1-13

He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.’ And he said to them, ‘Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, “Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.” And he answers from within, “Do not bother me; the door has already been locked, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.” I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs. ‘So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’

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 am the vine* you are the branches, says the Lord; alleluia!

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 am the vine* you are the branches, says the Lord; alleluia!

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, from whom all good things arise:
grant such grace to those who call on you,
that, by your inspiration,
we may ponder those things that are right,
and, by your guidance, do them;
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.