Evening Prayer: Wednesday 12 February 2025

Wednesday 12 February 2025

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

Wednesday after Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
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)

Mark 10.1-16

He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them. Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ But Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’ Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.’ People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.’ And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.

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: Give peace in our time, O Lord: * for you alone protect us.

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: Give peace in our time, O Lord: * for you alone protect us.

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 Lord, watch over your household with constant love:
that, supported by you alone,
we may always stand firm in your protection;
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.