12.18.25 Vespers, Thursday Evening Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

Christianity, Music, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 3rd Thursday in Advent, December 18, 2025.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, Suite 116Campbell, CA. 95008 Latin/English Translation for the Benedictus and the Magnificathttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLzxSsHz6aKXBKznoJxYjKztRLsoAxKDH7Q6eyCvKv4/edit?usp=sharing Get 3 months of Hallow Free: https://www.hallow.com/singthehoursDeus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"Hymn: "Verbum salutis omnium," ca. 12th c.,"Receive, O Mary, Virgin Pure," © 2023 ICEL Psalm 132Psalm 132Canticle: Revelation 11v17-18; 12v10b-12a Reading: Philippians 4v4-5Responsory: O Lord show us Your mercy and loveMagnificat (Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55) Intercessions: Come, Lord Jesus!Pater noster (The Lord's Prayer)Collect (Concluding Prayers)Concluding RiteMarian Devotion 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.
0:06.3	Oh God, come to my assistance.
0:11.4	Lord make haste to help me.
0:15.9	Glory, a patria, filio, and spiritu, sancto,
0:21.6	Siegut herod,
0:23.6	in principio, and now and
0:25.6	and ever,
0:26.6	and in seculo,
0:28.6	a sequel to our name,
0:30.6	Amen.
0:32.6	Alleluia.
0:36.6	Receive, Mary, Virgin, pure, within your chaste and blessed womb,
0:47.1	the saving word proclaimed for all, proceeding from the Father's mouth, the fruitful spirit's shadow comes, and fills you now with
1:01.9	heaven's light that you may carry Christ the Lord, the father's own co-equals son.
1:13.6	She is the sacred temple gate,
1:17.6	forever sealed and barred to all,
1:22.6	yet for the heavenly prince alone,
1:26.6	the blessed threshold opens wide,
1:32.9	foretold by prophets long ago,
1:37.0	and born before the morning star,
1:41.9	the one proclaimed by Gabriel is Christ the Lord come down to earth. Rechoice together angel hosts.
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