11.12.25 Vespers, Wednesday Evening Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Vespers, Evening prayer for the 32nd Wednesday in Ordinary Time, November 12, 2025.Memorial of St. Josephat, Bishop and Martyr Made without AI. 100% human vocals, 100% real prayer. This episode is sponsored by Hallow, the #1 prayer app in the world. Hallow has over 10,000 audio guided prayers, meditations, and music to help you find peace and grow closer to God. Get 3 months free of Hallow at https://www.hallow.com/singthehours Thank you for praying with us. Help us keep Sing the Hours on the internet! With your monthly support, receive a gift of ad-free Lauds, Vespers, Compline, and chant tutorials. https://singthehours.org/members Other ways to help: Venmo: @singthehours PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UT522UGV68ANS Check By Mail Please make checks out to Paul Rose and mail to: Sing the Hours c/o Paul Rose307 Orchard City Drive 1st Floor, PMB# 100Campbell, CA. 95008__________________________________ Get 3 months of Hallow free: https://www.hallow.com/singthehoursDeus in AdjutoriumHymn: "Behold the Slowly Setting Sun." Translation ©2023 ICEL. Divine Office HymnalPsalm 139v1-18, 23-24Psalm 139 continuedCanticle: Colossians 1v12-20Reading: 1 John 2v3-6Responsory: Keep us, O Lord, as the apple of Your eye.Magnificat (Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55)Intercessions: Let all who hope in You rejoice, O Lord.The Lord's Prayer CollectConcluding Rite The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes), ©1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Readings and Old and New Testament Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles) are from the New American Bible © 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C.

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0:00.0	Thank you to our friends at Hallow for making this office possible.
0:04.7	Now let's pray.
0:07.4	Oh God, come to my assistance.
0:13.6	Lord make haste to help me.
0:19.0	Gloria, Patria, Fulio, and Spiritu, and Saint,
0:25.6	So it is at first, and now and ever, and in the c'ule of the centuries, amen. Allelu
0:40.3	Behold the slowly setting sun
0:47.3	Departs from mountain field and sea
0:51.3	It leaves with sadness yet renews the promise of tomorrow's light.
1:00.8	For we in wonder recognize that you create or thus provide, and give to shadows as to light the laws that guide the change of ours.
1:17.6	So while the darkness shrouds the sky and weighs in silence on the world, when power and
1:26.6	strength for labor fail, then rest is sought with keen desire,
1:34.5	endowed with faith and hope in you, we find all blessing in your light, refulgent glory born from you, your word before the dawn of time.
1:51.0	He is the sun that knows no end, that never rises, never sets, in whose protection earth exalts, whom heaven sings with endless joy.
2:07.6	Grant us at length to find our joy, forever in this light serene, repeating hymns of praise to you, and to the sun and spirit blessed. Amen.
2:30.0	Lord, how wonderful is your wisdom
2:35.0	so far beyond my understanding.
2:42.0	Oh, Lord, you search me and you know me.
2:46.0	You know my resting and my rising You discern my purpose from afar
2:55.6	You mark when I walk or lie down
2:59.6	All my ways lie open to you
3:04.6	Before ever a word is on my tongue, you know it, O Lord, through and through.
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