8.23.25 Vespers I, Saturday Evening Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Vespers I, Evening Prayer for the 20th Saturday in Ordinary Time, August 23, 2025. Join us in Rome in November for a Jubilee Pilgrimagehttps://www.versoministries.com/sing-the-hours 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! 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. Join us in Rome this November! https://www.versoministries.com/sing-the-hoursIntroductory RiteHymn: "Deus Creator Omnium." St. Ambrose AD 340-397. (English) ICEL ©2023 published in "The Divine Office Hymnal, GIA Publications, Inc. ©2023 Translation.Psalm 141v1-9Psalm 142Canticle: Philippians 2v6-11Reading: Romans 11v33-36Responsory: "Our hearts are filled with wonder as we contemplate Your works, O Lord."Magnificat Intercessions – Lord, be with Your people.Pater Noster (The Lord's Prayer) CollectConcluding RiteMarian DevotionLearn more about the pilgrimage to Rome in November 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	Our Sing the Hours Rome Pilgrimage is now just three months away.
0:05.0	Sign up today with the link in the description.
0:07.0	Now let's pray.
0:09.0	O God, come to my assistance.
0:14.0	Lord make haste to help me.
0:20.0	Glory, Patri, and filio, and spiritu, sancto, sikut errat in principle, and not and in seculo of the century of amen. Alleluia.
0:38.3	O God, creator of the world, and ruler of the sky above, you clothe the day with splendid light,
0:58.0	And night with gracious gifts of sleep,
1:03.0	That limbs relaxed by quiet rest may be restored to use and toil
1:13.6	that weary minds may be refreshed
1:20.6	and anxious sorrows be relieved
1:25.6	As day now changes into night,
1:31.3	we pay our debt of grateful prayer,
1:37.3	sustain and help those bound to you.
1:43.3	As we pour forth our hymn of praise.
1:50.0	May hearts unite from deep within
1:55.0	to honor you with ringing praise,
2:00.0	to cherish you with purest love,
2:05.5	to worship you with sober mind,
2:11.2	that as the deepening gloom of night
2:15.0	shuts out the light and bars the day.
2:20.3	No darkness may obscure our faith, and night by faith may fill with light.
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