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

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

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Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 1st Wednesday in Advent, December 3rd, 2025.Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, Priest 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 Hallow 3 months freeDeus in Adjutorium – "O God, come to my assistance"Hymn: "Cónditor alme síderum," (English, ICEL ©2023)Psalm 27 (Gregorian tone 8)Antiphon I is based on Illuminatio Mea, for Psalm 26(27), Liber antiphonarius, Solesmes, 1960, p. 86Antiphon II is based on Exaudi Domine, from The Liber Usualis, Solesmes, 1961, p. 1801Canticle: Colossians 1v12-20 (Gregorian tone 4E)Reading: 1 Corinthians 4v5Responsory: Come and set us free, Lord God of power and might. (Advent tone, StH adaptation)Magnificat (English, Gregorian tone 2, simple)Intercessions: Lord, your kingdom come.The Lord's Prayer (Monastic tone, English)Concluding PrayerDominus Nos Benedicat – "May the Lord bless us..." 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.
0:07.3	Oh God, come to my assistance.
0:12.3	Lord, make haste to help me.
0:16.3	Gloria, Patri, at filio, at spiritu and sancto. Secret, erot and filio, and spiritu and saint, sacred erot in principle, and nucat,
0:25.6	and in seculo'o'o'urum, amen.
0:30.6	Alleluia.
0:36.6	O loving maker of the stars,
0:40.3	Believers everlasting light
0:45.3	O Christ, redeemer of us all,
0:50.3	With kindness hear our humble prayer.
0:55.0	With pity you beheld the fate that death imposed on ages past,
1:04.0	You gave the guilty, healing grace, and saved a week fallen world when evening fell upon the earth as bridegroom from the bridal room
1:21.6	from honored cloister forth you came, Born from the Virgin Mother Peor. Before your strong and steadfast might,
1:37.3	On earth, and in the heavens above, All knees bend,, all hearts confess,
1:46.0	Submission to your sovereign will
1:51.0	With faith we beg you, Holy Lord,
1:56.0	The judge of ages still to come
2:00.0	That in our time you keep us safe the judge of ages still to come,
2:04.6	that in our time you keep us safe,
2:09.3	from snares of our deceitful foe,
2:14.6	to evil Christ most loving king,
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