Evening Prayer: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Wednesday 26 November 2025

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

Wednesday 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)

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 70

1. Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; *
O Lord, make haste to help me.

2. Let those who seek my life be ashamed and altogether dismayed; *
let those who take pleasure in my misfortune draw back and be disgraced.

3. Let those who say to me “Aha!” and gloat over me turn back, *
because they are ashamed.

4. Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; *
let those who love your salvation say for ever, “Great is the Lord!”

5. But as for me, I am poor and needy; come to me speedily, O God. *
You are my helper and my deliverer; O Lord, do not tarry.

Glory …

Psalm 72

1. Give the king your justice, O God, *
and your righteousness to the king’s son;

2. that he may rule your people righteously *
and the poor with justice;

3. that the mountains may bring prosperity to the people, *
and the little hills bring righteousness.

4. He shall defend the needy among the people, *
rescuing the poor and crushing the oppressor.

5. He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure, *
from one generation to another.

6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown field, *
like showers that water the earth.

7. In his time shall the righteous flourish; *
there shall be abundance of peace till the moon shall be no more.

8. He shall rule from sea to sea, *
and from the River to the ends of the earth.

9. His foes shall bow down before him, *
and his enemies lick the dust.

10. The rulers of Tarshish and of the isles shall pay
tribute, *
and the rulers of Arabia and Saba offer gifts.

11. All rulers shall bow down before him, *
and all the nations do him service.

12. For he shall deliver the poor who cries out in
distress *
and the oppressed who has no helper.

13. He shall have pity on the lowly and poor *
and shall preserve the lives of the needy.

14. He shall redeem their lives from oppression and violence, *
and dear shall their blood be in his sight.

15. Long may he live! *
And may there be given to him gold from Arabia; may prayer be made for him always, and may they bless him all the day long.

16. May there be abundance of grain on the earth, growing thick even on the hilltops;
may its fruit flourish like Lebanon, and its grain like grass upon the earth

17. May his name remain for ever and be established as long as the sun endures; *
may all the nations bless themselves in him and call him blessed.

18. Blessed are you, Lord God, the God of Israel, *
for you alone do wondrous deeds!

19. And blessed be your glorious name for ever *
and may all the earth be filled with your glory.
Amen. Amen.

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 19:23-30

Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, ‘Then who can be saved?’ But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible.’ Then Peter said in reply, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold,* and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

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

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.