Vespers
Forty Days For Life
Solemn Vespers
Saint Patrick’s Basilica
Ottawa, ON Canada
Sunday, September 22, 2013
7 o’clock p.m.
All stand
Celebrant: O God, come to my aid.
Congregation: O Lord, make haste to help me.
[All together] Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
[Choir:] Alleluia.
Hymn
Adoremus Hymnal No 618
O radiant Light, O sun divine
[All sit. The Cantor recites the antiphon:] The Lord will stretch forth his mighty sceptre from Zion, and he will rule for ever. Alleluia.
Psalm 109 (110)
The Messiah, king and priest
The Lord has said to my lord: “Sit at my right hand while I make your enemies your footstool.”
From Zion the Lord will give you a sceptre,
and you will rule in the midst of your foes.
Royal power is yours in the day of your strength,
among the sacred splendours.
Before the dawn, I begot you from the womb.
The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent:
“You are a priest for ever,
a priest of the priesthood of Melchisedech.”
The Lord is at your right hand,
and on the day of his anger he will shatter kings.
He will drink from the stream as he goes –
[All stand]
he will hold his head high.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
[All repeat the antiphon together:]
The Lord will stretch forth his mighty sceptre from Zion, and he will rule forever. Alleluia.
[All sit. The Cantor recites the antiphon:] The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord. Alleluia.
Psalm 113a (114)
When Israel came out of Egypt,
Jacob’s people from a land of strangers,
Judah became his sanctuary
and Israel his domain.
The sea saw it, and fled;
the Jordan flowed backwards at the sight;
the mountains leapt like rams;
the hills, like yearling sheep.
Sea, what was it, what made you flee?
And you, Jordan, why did you flow uphill?
Mountains, why did you leap like rams?
Hills, like yearling sheep?
Tremble, Earth, at the presence of the Lord,
the presence of the Lord of Jacob,
[All stand]
who has turned the rock into a pool of water
and made a fountain out of the flint.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
[All repeat the antiphon together:] The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord. Alleluia.
Canticle (Apocalypse 19)
The wedding of the Lamb
[All sit. The Cantor recites the antiphon:] God reigns: our Lord, the Almighty. Alleluia.
Alleluia.
Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
because his judgements are true and just.
Alleluia.
Alleluia.
Praise our God, all his servants,
and you who fear him, small and great. Alleluia.
Alleluia.
For the Lord reigns, our God, the Almighty:
let us rejoice and exult and give him glory. Alleluia.
Alleluia.
The marriage of the Lamb has come,
[All stand] and his spouse has made herself ready. Alleluia.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
a world without end.
Amen.
[All repeat the antiphon together:] God reigns: our Lord, the Almighty. Alleluia.
[All sit]
Short reading
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received from God ourselves.
HOMILY [remain seated]
[After the homily, all stand]
Hymn
Adoremus Hymnal No 609
O Lord, the Giver of All Life
[All remain standing]
Canticle Magnificat
My soul rejoices in the Lord
[The Cantor recites the antiphon:] No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money.
[The choir then sings the Canticle of Our Lady. The altar, clergy and congregation are incensed as the canticle is sung.]
[All repeat the antiphon together:] No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money. [Remain standing]
Prayers and Intercessions
Adorons le Christ, Seigneur. Il est la tête; nous sommes les membres de son corps:
R/ Vienne ton règne, Seigneur!
Christ, ami des hommes, tu as établi ton Église signe de salut pour les peuples: — qu’elle soit fidèle à sa mission.
R/ Vienne ton règne, Seigneur!
Tu veux rassembler tes frères en un seul Corps; — avive en nous le désir de l’unité.
R/ Vienne ton règne, Seigneur!
Garde en communion le pape et les évêques; — qu’ils servent ton peuple au milieu des nations.
R/ Vienne ton règne, Seigneur!
Accorde au monde la paix; — fais-nous les artisans de ta justice.
R/ Vienne ton règne, Seigneur!
Ta résurrection nous a ouvert les portes de la vie: — qu’ils entrent, ceux qui ont mis leur espérance en toi.
R/ Vienne ton règne, Seigneur!
[Choir and congregation] Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum; advéniat regnum tuum; fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie; et dimitte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris; et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem; sed líbera nos a malo.
[Celebrant then immediately adds:]
O God, who founded all the commands of your sacred law upon love of you and of our neighbor, grant that, by keeping your precepts, we may merit to attain eternal life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
Celebrant: The Lord be with you.
Congregation: And also with you.
Celebrant: May Almighty God bless X you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Congregation: Amen.
Deacon: Go in the peace of Christ.
Congregation: Thanks be to God.