Opening
God, come to my assistance. Lord, make haste to help me.
Hymn
Hold my attention, Lord, When the day pulls me thin. One thing is needful in this hour: To love the one I am with. Keep my feet from stumbling; Keep my heart from growing hard. In the middle of the labor Be my rest and my reward.
Original – Prayer on Fire
Psalm I
Antiphon
Keep my feet from stumbling and my heart from hardness.
Psalm 119 (118):105–108
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths. I have sworn and I am determined to keep the judgments of your justice. I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly. Revive me according to your word. Make the voluntary offerings of my mouth well pleasing, O Lord, and teach me your judgments.
Glory Be
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.
Antiphon
Keep my feet from stumbling and my heart from hardness.
Psalm II
Antiphon
Between tasks, return me to presence and charity.
Psalm 121 (120):1–2
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help will come to me. My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Glory Be
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.
Antiphon
Between tasks, return me to presence and charity.
Silence
Hold the psalm a little longer.
Reading
Romans 12:1–2
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
Responsory
You are near, O Lord, in the heat of the day. Your word is our rest and our way. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Intercessions
Be near the sick at noon, the waiting rooms, and the weary caregivers; let this hour be a small mercy.
R. Lord, have mercy.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Closing prayer
Give us this day our daily bread — and make us bread for someone else in this hour. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.