ADVENT WEEK 1 SATURDAY EVENING SONG
SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD
ADVENT WEEK I
PSALTER WEEK I
ADVENT WEEK I FIRST EVENING PRAYER
(FIRST VESPERS OF FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT)
RECORDED SERVICES
0:00 Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"
0:41 Hymn: "Creator of the Stars of Night," Neale
2:56 Psalm 141v1-9
5:31 Psalm 142
8:16 Canticle: Philippians 2v6-11
10:15 Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
10:56 Responsory: Lord, show us Your mercy and love.
11:31 Canticle of Mary (Magnificat)
13:30 Intercessions: Come, Lord, and do not delay!
15:09 The Lord’s Prayer – "Pater Noster"
PSALM 104
Links for this Beginning Psalm of Byzantine Vespers
Bless the Lord, O my soul:
O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.
LITANY OF PEACE
Links for the Beginning Litany of Byzantine Vespers
AntiphonProclaim it, say to the peoples: Behold, God will come and save us.
Annuntiáte pópulis et dícite: Ecce Deus salvátor noster véniet.
* PSALM 141 *
O Lord, I cry out to you, hurry to me: attend to my voice when I call.
PSALM 140:1-9Dómine, clamávi ad te, ad me festína;* inténde voci meæ, cum clamo ad te.
AntiphonBehold, the Lord will come, and all his holy ones with him. On that day a great light will appear. Alleluia.
Ecce Dóminus véniet et omnes sancti eius cum eo,
et erit in die illa lux magna, allelúia.
* PSALM 142 *
With my voice I cry to the Lord; I implore the Lord with my entreaty.
PSALM 141:2-8Voce mea ad Dóminum clamo,* voce mea ad Dóminum déprecor;
* LUCERNARIUM *
SONGS AT LAMPLIGHTING
AntiphonThe Lord will come with great might and all flesh will see him.
Véniet Dóminus in potestáte magna et vidébit eum omnis caro.
CANTICLE PHILIPPIANS 2
Jesus Christ, although in the form of God, did cling as a prize to his equality with God;
PHILIPPIANS 2:6-11Christus Iesus, cum in forma Dei esset,* non rapínam arbitrátus est esse se æquálem Deo,
LECTIONARY OPTION
The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 1: 1-18 modernized
The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.
Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me. The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel has not known me, and my people has not understood. Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.
For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.
Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste. Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
Short Responsory Show us, Lord, your steadfast love.And grant us your salvation.
Responsorium breve ℣. Osténde nobis, Dómine,* Misericórdiam tuam℟. Et salutáre tuum da nobis.*
AntiphonSee, the name of the Lord comes from afar. His splendor fills the whole world.
Ecce nomen Dómini venit de longínquo et cláritas eius replet orbem terrárum.
Ecce nomen Dómini venit de longínquo
et cláritas eius replet orbem terrárum.
Vespers-Booklet-27th-November-2021.pdf (stmaryscathedral.org.au)
English
Avvento Betlemme NEW AIFC.pdf (dropbox.com)
Latin Vespers from Saint Catherine in Bethlehem
DivineOfffice.org Vespers in English with text.