Tuesday, December 2
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The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour
Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m
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First Week of Advent
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The Call to Prayer
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Open my lips, O Lord,* and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. |
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Psalm 51:16
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The Request for Presence
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You are my helper and my deliverer;* do not tarry, O my God. |
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Psalm 40:19
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The Greeting
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Hosanna, LORD, hosanna!* LORD, send us now success.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord;* we bless you from the house of
the LORD. |
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Psalm 118:25-26
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The Refrain for the Midday Lessons
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Whom have I in heaven but you?* and having you I desire nothing upon earth. |
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Psalm 73:25
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A Reading
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The days are coming—declares YAHWEH—when the plowman will tread on the
heels of the reaper and the treader of grapes on the heels of the sower of seed,
and the mountains will run with new wine and the hills all flow with it. I shall
restore the fortunes of my people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and
live in them, they will plant vineyards and drink their wine, they will lay out
gardens and eat their produce. And I shall plant them in their own soil and
they will never be uprooted again from the country which I have given them,
declares YAHWEH, your God. |
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Amos 9:13-15
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The Refrain
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Whom have I in heaven but you?* and having you I desire nothing upon earth. |
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Psalm 73:25
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The Midday Psalm
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Give Praise You Servants of the LORD
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Hallelujah! Give praise, you servants of the LORD;* praise the Name of the LORD.
Let the Name of the LORD be blessed,* from this time forth for evermore.
From the rising of the sun to its going down* let the Name of the LORD be praised.
The LORD is high above all nations,* and his glory above the heavens. |
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Psalm 113:1-4
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The Refrain
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Whom have I in heaven but you?* and having you I desire nothing upon earth. |
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Psalm 73:25
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The Small Verse
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My help is in the Name of the Lord who made the heavens and the earth. What
then shall I fear, of what shall I be afraid? |
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Traditional
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The Lord’s Prayer
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your Name.
May your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
for yours are the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen. |
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The Prayer Appointed for the Week
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Almighty God, give all of us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on
the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus
Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall
come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we
may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.† |
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The Concluding Prayer of the Church
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Direct me, O Lord, in all my doings with your most gracious favor, and further me
with your continual help; that in all my work begun, continued, and ended in
you, I may glorify your holy name, and finally, by your mercy, obtain everlasting
life; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen. |
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