ADVENT WEEK 1 WEDNESDAY EVENING SONG
SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD
ADVENT WEEK I
PSALTER WEEK I
WEDNESDAY EVENING PRAYER
(WEDNESDAY VESPERS)
RECORDED
Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"
Hymn: "Creator of the Stars of Night," John Mason Neale, 19th century
Psalm 27 (two parts)
Canticle: Colossians 1v12-20
Reading: 1 Corinthians 4v5
Responsory: Come and set us free, Lord God of power and might.
Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55
Intercessions: Lord, your kingdom come.
The Lord's Prayer
* PSALM 27 A *
The Lord is my light and my help: whom should I fear?
PSALM 26:1-6Dóminus illuminátio mea et salus mea,* quem timébo?
PSALM 27 B
Listen, Lord, to my voice as I cry: have mercy and listen to me.
PSALM 26:7-14Exáudi, Dómine, vocem meam, qua clamávi,*
CANTICLE COLOSSIANS 1
Let us give thanks to God the Father,who has made us worthy to share in the light that is the saints’ inheritance.
COLOSSIANS 1:12-20Grátias agámus Deo Patri,* qui idóneos nos fecit in partem sortis sanctórum in lúmine;
LECTIONARY OPTION
The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and VespersDRA Isaiah 5: 8-24 modernized
The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 5: 8-24 modernized
Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? These things are in my ears, says the Lord of hosts: unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine. The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands. Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst. Therefore hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it. And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low. And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.
Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness. That justify the wicked for gifts and take away the justice of the just from him. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devours the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumes it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.