Opening
God, come to my assistance. Lord, make haste to help me.
Hymn
Midway through the labor, Lord, We pause beneath Your gaze. The morning zeal has thinned a little; Steady us for the remaining ways. Christ who bore the heat of noonday, Stay beside the tasks we hold. Make our hands a quiet service, And our words both true and bold.
Original, Prayer on Fire
Psalm I
Antiphon
Give me a humble mind when success tempts me, and courage when I fail.
Psalm 67 (66):2–4
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
May God have mercy on us and bless us. May he shine his countenance upon us, and may he have mercy on us. So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations. Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.
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
Give me a humble mind when success tempts me, and courage when I fail.
Psalm II
Antiphon
Peace in the center of the day — Christ, be my stillness.
Psalm 72 (71):1–2, 12–13
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment. For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper. He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.
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
Peace in the center of the day — Christ, be my stillness.
Silence
A moment of silence
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
Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall walk and not faint. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Intercessions
Bless the labor of this hour — the seen and the hidden — and let it become a quiet offering.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
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
Jesus, you come in the one who needs patience. Open our eyes at noon. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.