Evening Prayer - Thursday Dec 01 2022

Confession

Most merciful God,
we confess that we have sinned against you
in thought, word, and deed,
by what we have done,
and by what we have left undone.
We have not loved you with our whole heart;
we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,
have mercy on us and forgive us;
that we may delight in your will,
and walk in your ways,
to the glory of your Name.

Amen

May Almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us all our sins
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
strengthen us in all goodness,
and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in eternal life.

Amen

Thursday - Evensong Invitation

Grace to you and peace from God our Fa-ther
and from/the Lord Je-sus Christ.
Wor-ship the Lord in/the beau-ty of his holi-ness;
let the whole earth trem-ble be-fore him.

Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as in-cense,
the lifting up of my hands as the eve-ning sacri-fice.
I will bless the Lord who gives me coun-sel;
my heart teaches me, night after night.

I have set the Lord al-ways be-fore me;
be-cause he is at my right hand, I shall not fall.
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be forever Amen.

O Gracious Light

O gracious Light,
pure brightness of the
everliving Father in heaven.
O Jesus, Christ, holy and blessed!

Now as we come to the setting of the sun,
and our eyes behold the vesper light,
we sing your praises, O God:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

You are worthy at all times
to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
and to be glorified through all the worlds.

Psalm 18:Part II Et retribuet mihi
²¹   The LORD rewarded me because of my righteous dealing; *
because my hands were clean he rewarded me;
²²   For I have kept the ways of the LORD *
and have not offended against my God;
²³   For all his judgments are before my eyes, *
and his decrees I have not put away from me;
²⁴   For I have been blameless with him *
and have kept myself from iniquity;

²⁵   Therefore the LORD rewarded me according to my righteous dealing, *
because of the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
²⁶   With the faithful you show yourself faithful, O God; *
with the forthright you show yourself forthright.
²⁷   With the pure you show yourself pure, *
but with the crooked you are wily.
²⁸   You will save a lowly people, *
but you will humble the haughty eyes.

²⁹   You, O LORD, are my lamp; *
my God, you make my darkness bright.
³⁰   With you I will break down an enclosure; *
with the help of my God I will scale any wall.
³¹   As for God, his ways are perfect; the words of the LORD are tried in the fire; *
he is a shield to all who trust in him.
³²   For who is God, but the LORD? *
who is the Rock, except our God?

³³   It is God who girds me about with strength *
and makes my way secure.
³⁴   He makes me sure-footed like a deer *
and lets me stand firm on the heights.
³⁵   He trains my hands for battle *
and my arms for bending even a bow of bronze.
³⁶   You have given me your shield of victory; *
your right hand also sustains me; your loving care makes me great.

³⁷   You lengthen my stride beneath me, *
and my ankles do not give way.
³⁸   I pursue my enemies and overtake them; *
I will not turn back till I have destroyed them.
³⁹   I strike them down, and they cannot rise; *
they fall defeated at my feet.
⁴⁰   You have girded me with strength for the battle; *
you have cast down my adversaries beneath me; you have put my enemies to flight.

⁴¹   I destroy those who hate me; they cry out, but there is none to help them; *
they cry to the LORD, but he does not answer.
⁴²   I beat them small like dust before the wind; *
I trample them like mud in the streets.
⁴³   You deliver me from the strife of the peoples; *
you put me at the head of the nations.
⁴⁴   A people I have not known shall serve me;
no sooner shall they hear than they shall obey me; *
strangers will cringe before me.

⁴⁵   The foreign peoples will lose heart; *
they shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
⁴⁶   The LORD lives! Blessed is my Rock! *
Exalted is the God of my salvation!
⁴⁷   He is the God who gave me victory *
and cast down the peoples beneath me.
⁴⁸   You rescued me from the fury of my enemies;
you exalted me above those who rose against me; *
you saved me from my deadly foe.

⁴⁹   Therefore will I extol you among the nations, O LORD, *
and sing praises to your Name.
⁵⁰   He multiplies the victories of his king; *
he shows loving-kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be forever Amen.

Luke 20:27-40

A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” 

Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.”

Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” For they no longer dared to ask him another question.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

The Song of Simeon        Luke 2:29-32        Nunc dimittis

Lord, you now have set your servant free*

to go in peace as you have promised;

For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior,*

whom you have prepared for all the world to see:

A Light to enlighten the nations,*

and the glory of your people Israel.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning, is now,

and will be for ever. Amen.

Prayers

Thursday Creed

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We be-lieve in God, the Fath-er al-might-y,
cre-a-tor of heaven and earth.
We be-lieve in Je-sus Christ,
his on-ly son, our Lord.

He was con-ceived by/the power of/the Ho-ly Spi-rit
and born of/the Vir-gin Mar-y.
He suffered under Pon-tius Pi-late,
was cruci-fied, died, and was bur-ied.

He de-scended to/the dead.
On the third day he rose a-gain.
He a-scended into heav-en,
and is seated at/the right hand of/the Fath-er.

He will come a-gain
to judge the living and the dead.
We be-lieve in/the Ho-ly Spi-rit,
the _ holy catho-lic Church,

the com-mun-ion of saints,
the for-give-ness of sins,
the resur-rec-tion of/the bod-y,
and the life ever-last-ing. A-men.

Thursday - Our Father

Thursday - Suffrages A

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Show us your mer-cy, O Lord;
And grant us your sal-va-tion.
Clothe your min-is-ters with right-eous-ness;
Let your peo-ple sing with joy.

Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;
For on-ly in you can we live in safe-ty.
Lord, keep this na-tion un-der your care;
And guide us in the way of jus-tice and truth.

Let your way be known upon earth;
Your sav-ing health a-mong all na-tions.
Let not the need-y, O Lord, be for-got-ten;
Nor the hope of the poor be tak-en a-way.

Cre-ate in us clean hearts, O God;
And sus-tain us with your Ho-ly Spir-it.
Show us your mer-cy, O Lord;
And grant us your sal-va-tion.

Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Most holy God, the source of all good desires, all right judgments, and all just works: Give to us, your servants, that peace which the world cannot give, so that our minds may be fixed on the doing of your will, and that we, being delivered from the fear of all enemies, may live in peace and quietness; through the mercies of Christ Jesus our Savior. Amen.

O God and Father of all, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you, all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer of Saint Chrysostom

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Al-might-y God,
you have given us grace at this time
with one ac-cord
to make our common sup-pli-ca-tion to you;

and you have prom-ised
through your well-be-loved Son
that when two or three are gathered in his Name
you will be in/the midst of them:

Ful-fill now, O Lord, our de-sires and pe-ti-tions
as may be best for us;
granting us in this world knowl-edge of your truth,
and in/the age to come life ever-lasting. A-men.

Thursday - Closing Blessings

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The grace of our Lord Je-sus Christ,
and the love of God our Fath-er,
and the fellow-ship of/the Ho-ly Spi-rit,
be with us all ever-more. A-men.

Thanks be to God!
May the God of hope fill us
with all joy and peace in be-liev-ing
through the power of/the Ho-ly Spi-rit. A-men.

Music from the Vox Barnabas Psalter, a collection of 60 Chant Scores
released to Public Domain March 30, 2020.
Hymns are taken from the Vox Barnabas Hymnal a collection arranged from Public Domain hymns
and also released to Public Domain for unrestricted Internet and Performance use.
Scriptures from the New English Translation(NET) Bible, used with permission.