Opening
Lord, open my lips. And my mouth will proclaim your praise.
Hymn
Quiet flame within the morning, Kindle what is cold in me. Teach my hurried heart to listen, Teach my eyes Your light to see. In the work that waits before me, Be my patience, be my peace. Holy Spirit, keep me present As this new day finds increase.
Original, Prayer on Fire
Psalm I
Antiphon
At daybreak, kindle hope where I am weary.
Psalm 90 (89)
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation. Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God. And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men. For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night, which was held for nothing: so their years shall be. In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry. For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury. You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance. For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web. The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected. Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom. Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants. We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days. We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils. Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons. And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.
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
At daybreak, kindle hope where I am weary.
Psalm II
Antiphon
New mercy for a new day — I place my plans in your hands.
Psalm 95 (94)
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior. Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods. For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his. For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us. For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works. For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart. And these have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest.
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
New mercy for a new day — I place my plans in your hands.
Silence
A moment of silence
Reading
Tobit 4:15a, 16a, 18a, 19
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
And whoever has done any kind of work for you, immediately pay him his wages, and do not let the wages of your hired hand remain with you at all. Whatever you would hate to have done to you by another, see that you never do so to another. Set out your bread and your wine at the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink from it with sinners. Always seek the counsel of a wise man.
Responsory
Your word is a lamp for my feet. And a light for my path. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Benedictus
Antiphon
Visit us in the morning, O Lord, and set our feet toward peace.
Luke 1:68–79
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Canticle
“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel. For he has visited and has wrought the redemption of his people. And he has raised up a horn of salvation for us, in the house of David his servant, just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, who are from ages past: salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all those who hate us, to accomplish mercy with our fathers, and to call to mind his holy testament, the oath, which he swore to Abraham, our father, that he would grant to us, so that, having been freed from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear, in holiness and in justice before him, throughout all our days. And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the face of the Lord: to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people for the remission of their sins, through the heart of the mercy of our God, by which, descending from on high, he has visited us, to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in the way of peace.”
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
Visit us in the morning, O Lord, and set our feet toward peace.
Intercessions
For peace in homes that woke in tension.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For nations at war — convert hearts, protect the innocent.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For peacemakers who will not be famous.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For our own tongue, that it may not kindle a fire.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For the courage to bless those who oppose us.
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
Father of light, you wake us into this new day. Receive the work we have not yet begun, and let your Son go before us. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.