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The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

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

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

Music, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9870 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Vespers, Evening prayer for the 20th Thursday in Ordinary Time, August 21, 2025.Memorial of Pope St. Pius X Truthly is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app designed to empower people with instant, reliable Catholic answers to questions about the faith and life. Download in the app store! More info here: https://www.truthly.ai/________________________________ Thank you for praying with us. Help us keep Sing the Hours on the internet! With your monthly support, receive ad-free prayer videos. 100% of your donation goes to Sing the Hours when you sign up with Podia. Also, access chant classes! Support here: https://singthehours.org/members Venmo: @singthehours PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UT522UGV68ANS By Mail: St. Paul’s Parish, attn: Paul Rose, 29 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138. Checks made payable to Paul Rose. Thank you to our friends at truthly.ai for sponsoring this videoDeus in AdjutoriumHymn: "O Gracious God Who Fashioned Day." Divine Office Hymnal #286. ©2023 ICELPsalm 144Psalm 144 continuedCanticle: Revelation 11v17-18, 12v10b-12aReading: See Colossians 1v23Responsory: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want for nothing."Canticle of MaryIntercessions: "Give us light, peace, and security, Lord."Pater Noster (The Lord's Prayer)Concluding PrayersConcluding 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

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0:08.2

Now let's pray.

0:10.8

Deus in adiatorium me intende.

0:17.1

Domine adjuvantvant, festina,

0:22.6

Gloria, Patry, and filio,

0:26.6

and spiritu his sancto,

0:29.6

see good,

0:31.6

it is in principle,

0:32.6

and now and ever,

0:34.6

and in secula-secul-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oula, secular, Oman.

0:38.0

Amen.

0:39.3

Alleluia.

0:41.3

O gracious God who fashioned day,

0:49.3

resplendent with your radiant light,

0:53.3

we beg you for your glory, Lord, as day rolls downward into dusk.

1:02.5

For now heart-pressed by even tide, the waning sun begins to set, infold folding all the world in night, It keeps its own well-ordered

1:16.6

corpse. But ye, O Lord and God most high, Let not the shadows of the night surround and crush your servants here, fatigued and worn by daily toil.

1:34.6

Bad hearts may not be left in gloom when day withdraws from life and soul, but shielded by your holy grace, we may behold a happy dawn.

1:50.6

Most loving Father, hear our prayer, and you, O Christ, go equal son, who with the spirit Paraclet, now reigns for all eternity.

2:07.1

Amen.

2:12.7

He is my comfort and my refuge.

2:21.3

In him I put my trust.

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