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The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

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

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

Christianity, Music, Religion & Spirituality

4.9870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Vespers, Evening Prayer for the 24th Wednesday in Ordinary Time, September 17, 2025.Come to our Rome Jubilee Pilgrimage in November! Itinerary and details here: https://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 Lauds, Vespers, and Compline. and chant tutorials. https://singthehours.org/members Other 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. Join us in Rome this November! https://www.versoministries.com/sing-the-hoursIntroductory Rite: Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"Hymn: "Sol ecce lentus occidens." English Translation ICEL ©2023 published in "The Divine Office Hymnal,” GIA Publications, IncPsalm 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 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

O God, come to my assistance.

0:05.0

Lord make haste to help me.

0:11.0

Glory, Patry, and filio, and spiritu and sancto.

0:19.0

See good herat in principle

0:21.6

And nuket,

0:23.6

Sampere,

0:24.6

And in secula,

0:26.6

Sikul, Oren, amen,

0:28.6

Alleluia.

0:32.6

Behold the slowly setting sun

0:40.3

Departs from mountain field and sea

0:44.3

It leaves with sadness yet renews

0:48.8

The promise of tomorrow's light

0:52.5

For we in wonder recognize that you create or thus provide,

1:00.0

and give to shadows as to light, the laws that guide the change of ours, so while the darkness shrouds the sky and weighs in silence on the world,

1:17.9

when power and strength for labor fail, then rest is sought with keen desire.

1:27.1

Endowed with faith and hope in you,

1:30.9

we find all blessing in your light,

1:34.7

Refulgent glory born from you,

1:38.7

Your word before the dawn of time.

1:43.5

He is the sun that knows no end,

1:47.6

that never rises, never sets,

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