Tuesday, December 2
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The Morning Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour
Between 6 and 9 a.m.
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First Week of Advent
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The Call to Prayer
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Come, let us sing to the LORD;* let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving* and raise a loud shout to him
with psalms. |
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Psalm 95:1-2
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The Request for Presence
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Show us the light of your countenance, O God,* and come to us. |
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based on Psalm 67:1
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The Greeting
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To you I lift up my eyes,* to you enthroned in the heavens.
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,* and the eyes of a maid to
the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to the LORD our God,* until he shows us his mercy. |
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Psalm 123:1-3
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The Refrain for the Morning Lessons
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I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;* I will praise the Name of the LORD
Most High. |
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Psalm 7:18
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A Reading
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Jesus said: “For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. For
God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him
the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be judged; but
whoever does not believe is judged already, because that person does not
believe in the Name of God’s only Son.” |
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John 3:16-18
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The Refrain
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I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;* I will praise the Name of the LORD
Most High. |
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Psalm 7:18
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The Morning Psalm
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The LORD Is a Shield About Me
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LORD, how many adversaries I have!* how many there are who rise up against me!
How many there are who say of me,* “There is no help for him in his God.”
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me;* you are my glory, the one who lifts up my
head.
I call aloud upon the LORD,* and he answers me from his holy hill;
I lie down and go to sleep;* I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. |
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Psalm 3:1-5
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The Refrain
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I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;* I will praise the Name of the LORD
Most High. |
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Psalm 7:18
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The Small Verse
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Keep me, Lord, as the apple of your eye and carry me under the shadow of your
wings. |
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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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Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this
new day: Preserve me with your mighty power, that I may not fall into sin, nor
be overcome by adversity; and in all I do direct me to the fulfilling of your purpose;
through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.† |
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