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

The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours

Paul Rose

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

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Vespers, Evening prayer for the 24th Thursday in Ordinary Time, September 18, 2025. ____________________Thank you for praying with us. Help us keep Sing the Hours on the internet! With your monthly support, receive 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 AdjutoriumHymn: "O Gracious God Who Fashioned Day."Psalm 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)CollectConcluding 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	Deus in adiatorium mehum intende,
0:06.0	Domine, adjuvantum, I festina,
0:13.0	glory, Patry, and filio, and spiritu his sancto,
0:20.0	as it is in principle,
0:22.6	and nowc et semper,
0:24.6	and in secula,
0:26.6	seculorum, amen.
0:28.6	Alleluia.
0:32.6	O gracious God who fashioned day
0:38.7	Resplendent with your radiant light
0:42.7	We beg you for your glory Lord
0:46.5	As day rolls downward into dusk
0:51.4	For now heart pressed by even, the waning sun begins to set, infolding all the world in
1:02.7	night, it keeps its own well-ordered corpse. But ye, O Lord and God most high, let not the shadows of the night surround and crush your
1:18.0	servants here, fatigued and worn by daily toil. That hearts may not be left in gloom when day withdraws from life and soul.
1:32.7	But shielded by your holy grace, we may behold a happy dawn.
1:41.0	Most loving Father hear our prayer, and you, O Christ, Co-equal, Son,
1:48.1	Who with the spirit Paraclete now reigns for all eternity.
1:57.2	Amen.
2:09.6	He is my comfort and my refuge. In him I put my trust.
2:16.6	Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
2:21.3	who trains my arms for battle,
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