Opening
Lord, open my lips. And my mouth will proclaim your praise.
Hymn
Morning by morning you awaken me. Help me to listen before I speak. Let praise be the first word I find, And mercy the last I keep. Christ of the rising light, go with me. Where I am weary, be my rest. Where I am eager, make me wise. In all things, make me blessed.
Original – Prayer on Fire
Psalm I
Antiphon
Lord of hosts, send your holy messengers to guard our steps.
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
Lord of hosts, send your holy messengers to guard our steps.
Psalm II
Antiphon
In the presence of your angels, teach us reverence and courage.
Psalm 100 (99)
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Psalm
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation. Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name. For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation.
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
In the presence of your angels, teach us reverence and courage.
Silence
A moment of silence
Reading of the feast
Exodus 23:20–21
Catholic Public Domain Version (public domain)
Behold, I will send my Angel, who will go before you, and preserve you on your journey, and lead you into the place that I have prepared. Heed him, and hear his voice, and do not hold him in disregard. For he will not release you when you have sinned, and my name is in him.
Responsory
The Lord is wonderful in his saints. Blessed be God in his gifts. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Benedictus
Antiphon
In holiness and in justice before him, let this day be lived.
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
In holiness and in justice before him, let this day be lived.
Intercessions
For the Church, that we may witness with courage and gentleness on this holy day.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For those who seek the Lord with tears, that they may hear their name spoken in love.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For the poor and the forgotten, that Christ’s friends may serve them with joy.
R. Speak, Lord, we are listening.
For our household and those we carry in prayer.
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
God our Father, you give the Church this day of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels. Let the grace of this Hour stay with us in work and rest. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.