Opening
God, come to my assistance. Lord, make haste to help me.
Hymn
Spirit of the middle hour, Breathe on tired wills again. Where impatience rises quickly, Pour Your peace like cooling rain. Hold us in the present duty; Lift our eyes from restless haste. Teach us still to love the neighbor In this stretch of time and place.
Original, Prayer on Fire
Psalm I
Antiphon
Between tasks, return me to presence and charity.
Psalm 103 (102):1–4
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and bless his holy name, all that is within me. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his recompenses. He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your infirmities. He redeems your life from destruction. He crowns you with mercy and compassion.
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.
Psalm II
Antiphon
You neither slumber nor sleep; watch over the work of my hands.
Psalm 118 (117):1, 14–17
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is forever. The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he has become my salvation. A voice of exultation and salvation is in the tabernacles of the just. The right hand of the Lord has wrought virtue. The right hand of the Lord has exalted me. The right hand of the Lord has wrought virtue. I will not die, but I will live. And I will declare the works of the Lord.
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
You neither slumber nor sleep; watch over the work of my hands.
Silence
Let the last verse rest in you.
Reading
Romans 1:16b–17
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for all believers, the Jew first, and the Greek. For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: “For the just one lives by faith.”
Responsory
The Lord is near to all who call upon him. To all who call upon him in truth. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Intercessions
In the middle of the day, keep us faithful to the Cross in ordinary work, and kind to the person before us.
R. Lord, hear our prayer.
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.