Night Prayer: Friday 13 June 2025

Friday after the Day of Pentecost

The Lord Almighty grant us a quiet night and a perfect end.
Amen.

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.

Alleluia!

PSALMODY

Opening This or another suitable opening hymn may be sung.

"Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That you, with steadfast love, would keep
Your watch around us while we sleep.

From evil dreams defend our sight,
From fears and terrors of the night;
Tread underfoot our deadly foe
That we no sinful thought may know.

O Father, that we ask be done
Through Jesus Christ, your only Son;
And Holy Spirit, by whose breath
Our souls are raised to life from death."

Antiphon: O Lord, my God, my Saviour,* by day and night I cry to you.

Psalm: Psalm 88
2. Let my prayer enter into your presence;*
incline your ear to my lamentation.

3. For I am full of trouble;*
my life is at the brink of the grave.

4. I am counted among those who go down to the Pit;*
I have become like one who has no strength;

5 Lost among the dead,*
like the slain who lie in the grave,
6. Whom you remember no more,*
for they are cut off from your hand.

7. You have laid me in the depths of the Pit,*
in dark places, and in the abyss.

8. Your anger weighs upon me heavily,*
and all your great waves overwhelm me.

9. You have put my friends far from me;
you have made me to be abhorred by them;*
I am in prison and cannot get free.

10. My sight has failed me because of trouble;*
Lord, I have called upon you daily;
I have stretched out my hands to you.

11. Do you work wonders for the dead?*
will those who have died stand up and give you thanks?

12. Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave?*
your faithfulness in the land of destruction?

13. Will your wonders be known in the dark?*
or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?

14. But as for me, O Lord, I cry to you for help;*
in the morning my prayer comes before you.

15. Lord, why have you rejected me?*
why have you hidden your face from me?



16. Ever since my youth, I have been wretched and at the point of death;*
I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.

17. Your blazing anger has swept over me;*
your terrors have destroyed me;
18. They surround me all day long like a flood;*
they encompass me on every side.

19. My friend and neighbour you have put away from me,*
and darkness is my only companion.

Glory …

Antiphon: O Lord, my God, my Saviour, by day and night I cry to you.

READING(S)

Jeremiah 14.9

Thanks be to God.

Silence

Response Psalm 31.5

Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
For you have redeemed me, Lord God of truth.
I commend my spirit.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.

Song of Simeon

Antiphon: Preserve us, O Lord,* while waking, and guard us while sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.

1. Now, Lord, you let your servant go in peace;*
your word has been fulfilled.

2. My own eyes have seen the salvation*
which you have prepared in the sight of every people;

3. A light to reveal you to the nations,*
and the glory of your people Israel.
Glory…

Antiphon: Preserve us, O Lord, while waking, and guard us while sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.

PRAYERS

Collect

Almighty God, whose most dear Son lay at this hour in the sepulchre in obedience to your will; may we by your grace be so buried with him that with him we may rise to life everlasting; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

Conclusion

The Lord be with you;
and also with you.
Let us bless the Lord;
Thanks be to God.
May the almighty and merciful God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, bless and keep us.
Amen.

or

May we be hidden under the shadow of God’s wings, this night and for ever.
Amen.