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Wednesday, December 3
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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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“Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. |
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Isaiah 1:18 (KJV)
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The Request for Presence
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O LORD, I call to you; come to me quickly;* hear my voice when I cry to you. |
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Psalm 141:1
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The Greeting
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In you, O LORD, have I taken refuge;* let me never be ashamed. |
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Psalm 71:1
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The Refrain for the Midday Lessons
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Happy are they all who fear the LORD,* and who follow in his ways! |
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Psalm 128:1
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A Reading
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“What are your endless sacrifices to me?” says YAHWEH. “I am sick of burnt offerings
of rams and the fat of calves. I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls and
lambs and goats. When you come and present yourselves before me, who
asked you to trample through my courts? Bring no more futile cereal offerings,
the smoke from them fills me with disgust. Take your wrong-doing out of my
sight. Cease doing evil. Learn to do good, search for justice, discipline the violent,
be just to the orphan, plead for the widow.” |
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Isaiah 1:11-13a, 16b-17
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The Refrain
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Happy are they all who fear the LORD,* and who follow in his ways! |
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Psalm 128:1
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The Midday Psalm
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Happy Are They Who Delight in the LORD
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Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked,* nor lingered
in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful!
Their delight is in the law of the LORD,* and they meditate on his law day and
night. They are like trees planted by streams of water, bearing fruit in due season, with
leaves that do not wither;* everything they do shall prosper.
It is not so with the wicked;* they are like chaff which the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes,* nor the
sinner in the council of the righteous.
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,* but the way of the wicked is doomed. |
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Psalm 1
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The Refrain
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Happy are they all who fear the LORD,* and who follow in his ways! |
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Psalm 128:1
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The Cry of the Church
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Be, Lord, my helper and forsake me not. Do not despise me, O God, my savior. |
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THE SHORT BREVIARY
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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 our Lord. Amen.† |
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