12.22.23 Vespers, Friday Evening Prayer

Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 3rd Friday in Advent, December 22nd, 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 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: James 5:7-8, 9bResponsory: Come and set us free, Lord God of power and might. (mode II)Ant. O Rex Gentium Magnificat: Luke 1v46-55 (tone II, monasticum)Intercessions: Come, Lord Jesus!The Lord's Prayer (ICEL)Concluding Prayers "In the Bleak Midwinter," verse 2, 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.