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

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

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Vespers, Evening prayer for the 4th Thursday in Ordinary Time, February 4, 2026.Made without AI. 100% human vocals, 100% real prayer. Check out "Seeking Beauty," a new travel documentary by EWTN hosted by David Henrie: https://www.seekingbeauty.show/ 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 New EWTN documentary: https://www.seekingbeauty.show/Deus in AdjutoriumHymn: "Behold the Slowly Setting Sun." ©2023 ICELPsalm 139v1-18, 23-24Psalm 139 continuedCanticle: Colossians 1v12-20Reading: 1 John 2v3-6Responsory: Keep us, O Lord, as the apple of Your eye.Magnificat (Luke 1v46-55)Intercessions: Let all who hope in You rejoice, Lord.The Lord's Prayer CollectConcluding Rite Permissions Granted by the USCCB and ICEL. Copyright Attributions:English translation of The Liturgy of the Hours: General Instruction, Antiphons, Invitatories, Responsories, Intercessions, Psalm 95, the Canticle of the Lamb, Psalm Prayers; original texts of the Opening Prayers and Alternative Opening Prayers from the Roman Missal, and the Roman Calendar. Copyright ©1970, 1973, 1975, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The texts of all Biblical Readings and Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles and the Canticle of the Lamb) are reproduced with permission from The New American Bible, ©1970 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington D.C. All rights reserved. Psalm Texts except Psalm 95 ©The Grail (England) 1963 published by Collins, London 1963.English translations of the Te Deum, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Benedictus, and Doxology by the International Consultation on English Texts. *Hymn - Copyright ©2023 the United States Conference of Catholic BishopsThe English translation is copyright ©2023 International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The Hymnal is published and distributed exclusively by GIA Publications, Inc.

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0:00.0	Today's office is presented by Seeking Beauty,
0:04.0	an exciting new travel series starring David Henry,
0:06.9	streaming now exclusively on the all-new EWTN Plus and EWTN.com.
0:13.3	Now let's pray.
0:15.6	Oh God, come to my assistance,
0:25.6	Lord make haste to help me Glory, Patry and filio
0:29.6	and spiritu and sancto
0:33.6	seek a terot in principle
0:36.6	and never at sempre
0:39.7	And in secula, securlora,
0:43.3	Amen
0:44.4	Alleluia
0:48.3	Ombio
0:51.3	Behold the slowly setting sun departs from mountain field and sea.
1:00.0	It leaves with sadness yet renews the promise of tomorrow's light.
1:08.0	For we in wonder recognize that you create or thus provide,
1:15.6	And give to shadows as to light, The laws that guide the laws that guide the change of ours.
1:24.6	So while the darkness shrouds the sky and weighs in silence on the world,
1:33.3	when power and strength for labor fail, then rest is sought with keen desire.
1:41.3	Endowed with faith and hope in you, we find all blessing in your light,
1:50.3	refulgent glory born from you, your word before the dawn of time.
1:59.2	He is the sun that knows no end, that never rises, never sets, in whose protection
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