Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
1. Matin Service
O Lord, open Thou my lips. And my mouth shall show forth Thy praise. O God, make speed to save me. O Lord make haste to help me. Glory be, &c. Amen.
Praise ye the Lord. (Hallelujah.)
(a) Invitatory
Let us worship the Lord: our Maker.
Let us worship, &c.
Psalm 95.
O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice
in the strength of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving: and
shew ourselves glad in him with psalms.
Let us worship the Lord our Maker.
For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above
all gods.
In His hand are all the corners of the earth: and the
strength of the hills is his also.
Our Maker.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared
the dry land.
O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before
the Lord our Maker.
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of
his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Let us worship the Lord our Maker.
Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the
wilderness.
When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw
my works.
Our Maker.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and
said: It is a people that do err in their hearts; for they have
not known my ways.
Unto whom I aware in my wrath: that they should not
enter into my rest.
Let us worship the Lord our Maker.
Glory be, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c. Amen.
Our Maker.
Let us worship the Lord our Maker.
(b) Hymn
[Nocte surgentes.]
Let us arise, and watch by night,
And meditate always;
And chant, as in our Maker’s sight,
United hymns of praise.
So, singing with the Saints in bliss,
With them we may attain
Life everlasting after this,
And heaven for earthly pain.
Grant it to us, O Father, Son,
And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done
In every time and place. Amen.
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Nocturn 1.
(c) Antiphon
Serve ye the Lord.
Psalm 1 (1)
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel
of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners: and hath
not sat in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord: and in his law
will he exercise himself day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the water-side:
that will bring forth his fruit in due season.
His leaf also shall not wither: and look, whatever he
doeth, it shall prosper.
As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are
like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face
of the earth.
Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the
judgment: neither the sinners in the congregation of the
righteous.
But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: and the
way of the ungodly shall perish. Glory be, &c.
Psalm 2 (2)
Why do the heathen so furiously rage together: and why
do the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take coun-
sel together: against the Lord, and against his Anointed.
Let us break their bonds asunder: and cast away their
cords from us.
He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn:
the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath: and vex
them in his sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my King: upon my holy hill of Sion.
I will preach the law, whereof the Lord hath said unto
me: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Desire of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance: and the utmost parts of the earth for thy
possession.
Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron: and break
them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be learned, ye that
are judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord in fear: and rejoice unto him with
reverence.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the
right way: if his wrath be kindled, (yea, but a little) blessed
are all they that put their trust in him. Glory be, &c.
Psalm 3 (3)
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me: many are