12.20.24 Vespers, Friday Evening Prayer

Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 3rd Friday in Advent, December 20th, 2024.Join us for our mid-winter chant retreat, January 24-26, 2025.More information at registration at singthehours.org/retreats Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"Hymn: Verbum salutis omnium, ca. 12th c., "Receive, O Mary, Virgin Pure," English © 2023 ICEL Psalm 135, I (Antiphon adapted by Sing the Hours from Gregorian Proper)Psalm 135, II (Antiphon adapted by Sing the Hours from Gregorian Proper)Canticle: Revelation 15v3-4 (Antiphon adapted by Sing the Hours from Gregorian Proper)Reading: See 1 Corinthians 1v7b-9Responsory: Come and set us free, Lord God of power and might. (mode II)Ant. O Clavis David (O Key of David)Magnificat: Luke 1v46-55Intercessions: Come, Lord Jesus!The Lord's Prayer (ICEL)Collect (Concluding Prayers)Concluding Rite The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes), ©1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Readings and Old and New Testament Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles) are from the New American Bible © 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C.