Evening Prayer: Tuesday 9 December 2025

Tuesday 9 December 2025

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

Tuesday after Second Sunday of Advent
Advent

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: My eyes are turned to you, Lord God; * in you I take refuge; do not strip me of my life.
(Psalm 141.8)

Opening (from Psalms 140 and 141)

1. I have said to the Lord, ”You are my God;
listen, O Lord, to my supplication.”

2. Lord, I call to you; come to me quickly; *
hear my voice when I cry to you

3. I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor *
and render justice to the needy.

4. Surely, the righteous will give thanks to your name,*
and the upright shall continue in your sight.

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


Revelation 22

1. I am the Alpha and the Omega, *
says the Lord.

2. The first and the last,*
the beginning and the end.

3. I am the root and offspring of David,*
the bright morning star.

4. The Spirit and the Bride say, Come;*
let anyone who hears, say, Come,

5 Let anyone who is thirsty come;*
let anyone who desires take the water of life without price.

6. The Lord says, Surely I am coming soon.*
Amen; come, Lord Jesus!

Glory …

Antiphon: My eyes are turned to you, Lord God; * in you I take refuge; do not strip me of my life.

READING(S)

Matthew 22:34-46

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

Silence

Response (Psalm 28.9)

Save your people and bless your inheritance.
Save your people and bless your inheritance.
Shepherd them and carry them for ever.
Bless your inheritance.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
Save your people and bless your inheritance.

SONG OF MARY

Song of Mary Antiphon: Prepare the way of the Lord,* make his paths straight. All flesh shall see the salvation of God. (Luke 3.4,6)

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: Prepare the way of the Lord,* make his paths straight. All flesh shall see the salvation of God. (Luke 3.4,6)

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 our hearts, Lord,
to prepare the way of your only-begotten Son:
that, in his coming,
we might serve you with our hearts made pure;
through the same 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.