Wednesday, August 12
The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.


The Call to Prayer
Hallelujah! Praise the Name of the LORD;* give praise, you servants of the LORD!
Psalm 135:1

The Request for Presence
Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High;* O LORD, judge the nations.
Psalm 7:8


The Greeting

I will confess you among the peoples, O LORD;* I will sing praise to you among the nations. For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens,* and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Psalm 57:9–10

The Refrain for the Midday Lessons

Light has sprung up for the righteous,* and joyful gladness for those who are true hearted.
Psalm 97:11

A Reading

He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations; for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God. As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him from their sight. They were still staring into the sky as he went when suddenly two men in white were standing beside them and they said, ‘Why are you Galileans standing here looking into the sky? Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way as you have seen him go to heaven.’ So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James.
Acts 1:3, 9–14

The Refrain

Light has sprung up for the righteous,* and joyful gladness for those who are true hearted.

The Midday Psalm

That the Generations to Come Might Know

That which we have heard and known, and what our forefathers have told us,* we will not hide from their children. We will recount for generations to come the praiseworthy deeds and power of the LORD,* and the wonderful works he has done. He gave his decrees to Jacob and established a law for Israel,* which he commanded them to teach their children; That the generations to come might know, and the children yet unborn;* that they in their turn might tell it to their children; So that they might put their trust in God,* and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments; And not be like their forefathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation,* a generation whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 78:3–8

The Refrain

Light has sprung up for the righteous,* and joyful gladness for those who are true hearted.

The Gloria

Glory be to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, so it is now and so it shall ever be, world without end. Alleluia.* Amen.

The Lord's Prayer

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.

The Prayer Appointed for the Week

Grant to me, Lord. I pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that I, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.†

The Concluding Prayer of the Church

May God himself order my days And make them acceptable in his sight. Blessed is the Lord always, My strength and my redeemer.
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