9.13.25 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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🗓️ 13 September 2025

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Vespers I, Evening Prayer for the 23rd Saturday in Ordinary Time, September 13, 2025.Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross____________________Thank you for praying with us. Help us keep Sing the Hours on the internet! 100% of your donation goes to Sing the Hours when you sign up for monthly support at https://singthehours.org/members Access Ad-Free Lauds, Vespers, Compline, and chant tutorials! https://singthehours.org/membersOther ways to help: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. Deus in Adjutorium – "O God, come to my assistance" (Solemn tone adapted for English by Sing the Hours ©2023)Hymn: "The Banners of the King Go Forth" ("O God, the source of all that is.") English Translation - ICEL ©2023.#502 in "The Divine Office Hymnal," GIA Publications, Inc.* (See note for further attributions)Psalm 147v1-11Psalm 147 v12-20Canticle: Philippians 2v6-11Reading: 1 Corinthians 1v23-24Responsory: Hoc signum crucis, eris in caelo Magnificat (Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55) Intercessions: "Lord through Your cross, bring us to the glory of Your Kingdom." The Lord's PrayerCollectConcluding Rite – "May the Lord Bless us"Marian 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.*Hymn - Copyright ©2023 the United States Conference of Catholic BishopsThe English translation is copyright ©2023 International Commission on English in the Liturgy CorporationThe Hymnal is published and distributed exclusively by GIA Publications, Inc.

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0:00.0	O God, come to my assistance.
0:04.0	Lord, make haste to help me.
0:10.0	Glory, Patry, and filio, and spiritu, sancto.
0:15.0	See, it is in principle, and not and ever,
0:20.0	and in secula, seculorum, amen.
0:25.6	Alleluia.
0:30.6	The banners of the king go forth,
0:47.6	the gleaming mystery of the cross, by which the maker of all flesh,
0:55.0	was yokeed in flesh upon the wood,
1:02.0	Where wounded as he hung on high
1:08.0	By ruthless blade of sharp and spear,
1:29.5	There flowed forth water mixed with blood to wash us clean from every sin. O noble tree with blood adorned, the splendid purple of the king,
1:34.8	Wood chosen from a worthy stalk
1:41.3	To touch and bear such holy limbs.
1:50.0	O blessed tree whose branches bore, the price and ransom of the world
2:02.1	like scales it weighed the body's worth
2:07.6	and bore away the spoils of hell
2:15.6	Hail halt our victim's sad spoils of hell.
2:22.3	Hail halt our victim's sacrifice,
2:29.7	for glory gained through grief and death,
2:35.0	by which our life endured to die,
2:43.0	and through his death restored our life. O cross all hail our only hope, In glorious triumph raised on high,
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