Opening
Lord, open my lips. And my mouth will proclaim your praise.
Hymn
Christ, true dawn that breaks our darkness, Rise upon this ordinary day. Scatter fears that throng the doorway; Speak one word to light my way. Sun of Justice, warm my spirit; Make my first steps clean and free. What I cannot yet imagine, Hold in mercy next to me.
Original, Prayer on Fire
Psalm I
Antiphon
Risen Christ, firstborn from the dead, renew our hope this day.
Psalm 67 (66)
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. May the nations rejoice and exult. For you judge the peoples with equity, and you direct the nations on earth. Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you. The earth has provided her fruit. May God, our God, bless us. May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him.
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
Risen Christ, firstborn from the dead, renew our hope this day.
Psalm II
Antiphon
At daybreak, kindle hope where I am weary.
Psalm 72 (71)
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. Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice. He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser. And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation. He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth. In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away. And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world. In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground. The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts. And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him. 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. He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight. And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long. And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth. May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him. Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. And blessed is the name of his majesty in eternity. And all the earth will be filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen. The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end.
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.
Silence
Hold the psalm a little longer.
Reading
Ezekiel 36:25–28
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them. And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Responsory
The Lord’s love is steadfast in the morning. His faithfulness is new with the light. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Benedictus
Antiphon
He has remembered his holy promise; we remember it with the morning.
Luke 1:68–79
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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
He has remembered his holy promise; we remember it with the morning.
Intercessions
For the earth and all that you have made, that we may tend it with care.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For the hungry and the displaced, that bread and shelter may find them.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For peacemakers, and for those who cannot yet imagine peace.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For our families, named and unnamed before you.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For hearts that are tired at the day’s beginning — kindle them gently.
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
God of mercy, begin this day in us. We do not ask for a perfect record, only a faithful love. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.