12.21.23 Vespers, Thursday Evening Prayer

Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 3rd Thursday in Advent, December 21st 2023. Check out our new channel - Chants and Rants - youtube.com/@chantsandrants Thanks for praying with us!For inquiries, requests, and feedback please email [email protected] us on Twitter @singthehours Please support this work directly through any of our funding platforms:Venmo: @singthehoursPayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UT522UGV68ANSPatreon: patreon.com/singthehoursBy Mail: St. Paul’s Parish, attn: Paul Rose, 29 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138. Checks made payable to Paul Rose. Visit our our website at singthehours.org 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 132, I (tone 4alt., Antiphon adapted by Sing the Hours, from "Ad Te Domine Levavi," Solesmes, 2005)Psalm 132, II (Antiphon adapted by Sing the Hours, from "Da Mercedem, Domine" Solesmes, 2005)Canticle: Revelation 11v17-18; 12v10b-12a (tone 8G, Antiphon adapted by StH from "Convertere, Domine")Reading: 1 Corinthians 4v5Responsory: Come and set us free, Lord God of power and might. (mode II)Ant. O Oriens Magnificat: Luke 1v46-55 (tone II, monasticum)Intercessions: Come, Lord Jesus!The Lord's Prayer (ICEL)Concluding Prayers "In the Bleak Midwinter," verse 1, Christina Rossetti 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.