Morning Prayer: 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
Week 2 of Advent
O Lord, open our lips:
and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Glory be 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.
Amen.
PSALMODY
Antiphon: Show your servants your works and your splendour to their children. (Psalm 90.16)
Opening
Come, let us sing
1 Come, let us sing to the Lord; *let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before the presence of the Lord with thanksgiving *
and raise a loud shout to God with psalms.
3 For you, O Lord, are a great God, *
and a great sovereign above all gods.
4 In your hand are the caverns of the earth, *
and the heights of the hills are yours also.
5 The sea is yours, for you made it, *
and your hands have moulded the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For you are our God, and we are the people of your pasture and the sheep of your hand. *
Oh, that today we would hearken to your voice!
8 “Harden not your hearts, *
as your forebears did in the wilderness.
9 They put me to the test, *
though they had seen my works.
10 So I swore in my wrath, *
‘They shall not enter into my rest.’”
Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn
(Or from Psalm 90)
1. Lord, you have been our refuge *
from one generation to another
2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or the land
and the earth were born,*
from age to age you are God.
3. Satisfy us by your loving-kindness in the morning;
so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
4. Make us glad by the measure of the days that you afflicted
us *
and the years in which we suffered adversity
Glory ...
or a suitable hymn
the Lord is enthroned upon the Cherubim; * let the earth shake.
2. The Lord is great in Zion *
and is high above all peoples.
3. Let them confess your name, which is great and awesome; *
you are the Holy One.
4. “O mighty Sovereign, lover of justice, you have established equity; *
you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.”
5. Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and fall down before the footstool of God; *
the Lord is the Holy One.
6. Moses and Aaron among your priests, * and Samuel among those who call upon your name,
they called upon you, O Lord, *and you answered them.
7. You spoke to them out of the pillar of cloud; *
they kept your testimonies and the decree that you gave them.
8. “O Lord our God, you answered them indeed; *
you were a God who forgave them, yet punished them for their evil deeds.”
9. Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and worship upon the holy hill of God; *
for the Lord our God is the Holy One.
Glory ...
Psalm 100
1. Be joyful in the Lord, *
all you lands;
2. serve the Lord with gladness *
and come into the divine presence with a song.
3. Know this: the Lord, the Lord, is God; *
the One made us and to whom we belong; we are God’s people, the sheep of God’s pasture.
4. Enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving; go into these courts with praise; *
give thanks to God and call upon the name of the Lord.
5. For the Lord is good, whose steadfast love is everlasting; *
and whose faithfulness endures from age to age.
Psalm 101
1. I will sing of mercy and justice; *
to you, O Lord, will I sing praises.
2. I will strive to follow a blameless course; oh, when will you come to me? *
I will walk with sincerity of heart within my house.
3. I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; *
I hate the doers of evil deeds; they shall not remain with me.
4. A crooked heart shall be far from me; *
I will not know evil.
5. Those who in secret slander their neighbours I will destroy; *
those who have a haughty look and a proud heart I cannot abide.
6. My eyes are upon the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me, *
and only those who lead a blameless life shall be my servants.
7. Those who act deceitfully shall not dwell in my house, *
and those who tell lies shall not continue in my sight.
8. I will soon destroy all the wicked in the land, *
that I may root out all evildoers from the city of the Lord.
Conclusion
Isaiah 2.2-5
1. In days to come, the mountain where the Lord dwells*
will be lifted high above all the mountains and raised above the hills.
2. All the nations will flock to it;*
countless peoples will come to it.
3. And they will say, Come let us go to the mountain of the Lord,*
to the temple of the God of Jacob,
4. who will teach us his ways,*
and we will walk in his paths;
5 who will sit in judgement over the nations;*
be arbiter among many peoples.
6. They will beat their swords into ploughshares,*
and their spears into sickles;
7. nation shall not lift up sword against nation,*
nor ever again prepare for war.
8. people of Jacob come,*
let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Glory ...
Show your servants your works and your splendour to their children.
READING(S)
Amos 7.1-17
‘O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!’
The Lord relented concerning this;
‘It shall not be,’ said the Lord.
This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,
‘O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!’
The Lord relented concerning this;
‘This also shall not be,’ said the Lord God.
This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. And the Lord said to me, ‘Amos, what do you see?’ And I said, ‘A plumb-line.’ Then the Lord said,
‘See, I am setting a plumb-line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by;
the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.’
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, ‘Amos has conspired against you in the very centre of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos has said,
“Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.” ’
And Amaziah said to Amos, ‘O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there; but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.’
Then Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore trees, and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, “Go, prophesy to my people Israel.”
‘Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
You say, “Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.”
Therefore, thus says the Lord:
“Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be parcelled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.” ’
Revelation 1.9-16
Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest. His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.
Silence
Response ((Psalm 96.10))
Tell it out among the nations: ‘The Lord reigns!’
Tell it out among the nations: ‘The Lord reigns!’
The Lord will judge the peoples with equity.
‘The Lord reigns.’
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
Tell it out among the nations: ‘The Lord reigns!’
SONG OF ZECHARIAH
Song of Zechariah Antiphon: You will guide us with your counsel, O God: * and, after, receive us with glory. Prepare the way of the Lord,* * make his paths straight. All flesh shall see the salvation of God.
1 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel,*
for he has come to his people and set them free.
2 He has raised up for us a mighty saviour,*
born of the house of his servant David.
3 Through his holy prophets he promised of old*
that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all that hate us.
4 He promised to show mercy to our forebears,*
and to remember his holy covenant.
5 This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:*
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
6 free to worship him without fear,*
holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
7 You my child shall be called the prophet of the Most High,*
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
8 to give his people knowledge of salvation*
by the forgiveness of all their sins.
9 In the tender compassion of our God*
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
10 to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,*
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Song of Zechariah Antiphon: You will guide us with your counsel, O God: * and, after, receive us with glory. Prepare the way of the Lord,* * make his paths straight. All flesh shall see the salvation of God.
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
God most holy, we give you thanks for bringing us out of the shadow of night into the light of morning; and we ask you for the joy of spending this day in your service, so that when evening comes, we may once more give you thanks, through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.
Amen
Let us bless the Lord:
Thanks be to God!
The Lord bless us and preserve us from all evil;
and bring us to life eternal.
Amen.
