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
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.
Psalm II
Antiphon
Rise in my heart, O Sun of Justice, and scatter what is false.
Psalm 100 (99)
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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
Rise in my heart, O Sun of Justice, and scatter what is false.
Silence
Hold the psalm a little longer.
Reading
Romans 8:35–39
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Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword? For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.” But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us. For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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
Direct our feet, O Lord, in the way of peace.
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
Direct our feet, O Lord, in the way of peace.
Intercessions
For shepherds and the faithful, that the Church may be a gentle light.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For nations and those who govern, that justice may be patient and true.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For the poor, the forgotten, and all who hunger for mercy.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For friends, strangers, and enemies — teach us to love as we are loved.
R. Lord, have mercy.
For this new beginning, that praise may be our first word.
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
Holy Spirit, seal the Word we have heard. Go with us into the untried hours, and teach us to love as we have been loved. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.