Tuesday, March 17
The Vespers Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 5 and 8 p.m

Monday, Fourth Week of Lent


The Call to Prayer
Love the LORD, all you who worship him;* the LORD protects the faithful, but repays to the full those who act haughtily.
Psalm 31:23

The Request for Presence
Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth;* knit my heart to you that I may fear your Name.
Psalm 86:11


The Greeting

Whom have I in heaven but you?* And having you I desire nothing upon earth.
Psalm 73:25

The Hymn

Lenten Hymn

Lord, who throughout these forty days for us did fast and pray, Teach us with you to mourn our sins, and close by you to stay. As You with Satan did contend and did the victory win, O give us strength in you to fight, in you to conquer sin. As you bore hunger and your thirst, so teach us, gracious Lord, To die to self, and chiefly live by your most holy Word. And through the days of penitence, and through your Passion-tide, Yes, evermore, in life and death, Jesus! With us abide. Abide with us, that so, this life of suffering over-past, An Easter of unending joy we may attain at last!
Claudia Hernaman

The Refrain for the Vespers Lessons

Let Israel rejoice in his Maker;* let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Psalm 149:5

The Vespers Psalm

You Yourself Created My Inmost Parts

If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,* and the light around me turn to night,” Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day;* darkness and light to you are both alike. For you yourself created my inmost parts;* you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:10–12

The Refrain

Let Israel rejoice in his Maker;* let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

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

O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant that I, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear my cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; 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

God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in mine eyes and in my looking. God be in my mouth and in my speaking. God be in my heart and in my thinking. God be at mine end and my departing.
Sarum Primer, 1527