DECEMBER 27 EVENING SONG

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

 

     DECEMBER 27     

     PSALTER WEEK I 

DECEMBER 27 EVENING PRAYER

 (VESPERS OF DECEMBER 27)

RECORDED SERVICES

Antiphon

All authority and dominion are yours on the day of your strength;

 you are resplendent in holiness. 

From the womb before the dawn I begot you.

Tecum princípium in die virtútis tuæ, in splendóribus sanctórum
, ex útero ante lucíferum génui te..

PSALM 110

The Lord has said to my lord:

  “Sit at my right hand

PSALM 109:1-5,7

Dixit Dóminus Dómino meo:*

  «Sede a dextris meis,

Antiphon

With the Lord there is unfailing love. Great is his power to set men free.

Apud Dóminum misericórdia et copiósa apud eum redémptio.

PSALM 130

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Lord:

PSALM 129:1-8

De profúndis clamávi ad te, Dómine;*

Antiphon

The Word was God in the beginning and before all time. 

Today he is born to us, the Savior of the world.

In princípio et ante sǽcula Deus erat Verbum: ipse natus est hódie Salvátor mundi.

CANTICLE COLOSSIANS 1

Let us give thanks to God the Father,

  who has made us sufficient to share in the light

that is the saints’ inheritance.

COLOSSIANS 1:12-20

Grátias agámus Deo Patri,*

  qui idóneos nos fecit in partem sortis sanctórum in lúmine;

Short Reading 1 John 1:1-3

Short Responsory

The Word became flesh. Alleluia, alleluia.

And he lived among us. Alleluia, alleluia.

Responsorium breve

℣.  Verbum caro factum est, * Allelúia, allelúia. 

℟.   Et habitávit in nobis.* Allelúia, allelúia

Antiphon

‘

All that the prophets foretold about Christ 

has been fulfilled through you, Virgin Mary: 

you were a virgin when you conceived 

and remained a virgin after you had given birth.

. 

Per te, María Virgo, impléta sunt prophetárum ómnium præcónia, quæ de Christo dicta sunt: 

Virgo concepísti, et Virgo genuísti.