3.20.23 Vespers, Monday Evening Prayer

Vespers II, Evening Prayer for Monday of the 4th week in Lent, Solemnity of the St. Joseph! Thanks for praying with us, for inquiries, requests, feedback, please email [email protected]. St. Joseph Pray for us! Follow 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 02138Check out our website at singthehours.org  Deus in Adjutorium – "O God, come to my assistance" (Solemn tone, Liber Hymnarius) Hymn: "Te, Ioseph, celebrent agmina cælitum," English, translation by Edward Caswall Psalm 15 (tone VII) Psalm 112 (tone IV) Canticle: Revelation 15v3-4 (tonus peregrinus) Reading: Colossians 3v23-24  Responsory: The just man shall blossom like the lily. (StH arrangement) Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55 (Latin, tone VII, see chant text below) Intercessions: Our Father in heaven, hear our prayer. (Meinrad tone[?]) The Lord's Prayer (ICEL, 2011) Concluding Prayers Dominus Nos Benedicat – "May the Lord bless us" Magníficat*   ánima mea Dóminum,et exsultávit spíritus meus*   in Deo salvatóre meo,quia respéxit humilitátem ancíllæ suæ.*   Ecce enim ex hoc beátam me dicent      omnes generatiónes,quia fecit mihi magna, qui potens est,*   et sanctum nomen eius,et misericórdia eius in progénies et progénies*   timéntibus eum.Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,*   dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;depósuit poténtes de sede*   et exaltávit húmiles;esuriéntes implévit bonis*   et dívites dimísit inánes.Suscépit Israel púerum suum,*   recordátus misericórdiæ,sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,*   Abraham et sémini eius in sǽcula.Glória Patri, et Fílio,*et Spirítui Sancto.Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc et semper,*et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen. 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.