Prayer for the Evening (Thursday, January 6)

Prayer for the Evening

Christ is our help and our salvation:

come, let us adore him!

Glory to the Father…. Alleluia!

Hymn

Hail, the long-awaited Son!

Lord of all the realm to come.

Deaf and blind and lame are healed,

And God’s Kingdom is revealed.

“Where, O Master, do you stay?”

“Come and see,” we hear him say.

Jesus, David’s righteous heir,

King of justice, kind and fair,

Lead your flock to pastures green

By the ever-flowing stream,

There the three-fold Name to praise

Unto everlasting days.

Psalm 146:5-10

Jesus Christ heals you. (Acts 9:34)

In this season, we celebrate the mystery of God’s Epiphany in Christ, which is not confined to the past but alive in our present. Christ continues to come in our day to all those who are in need of God’s liberating, illuminating, and healing love.

He is happy who is helped by Jacob’s God,

whose hope is in the Lord his God,

who alone made heaven and earth,

the seas and all they contain.

It is he who keeps faith for ever,

who is just to those who are oppressed.

It is he who gives bread to the hungry,

the Lord, who sets prisoners free,

the Lord who gives sight to the blind,

who raises up those who are bowed down,

the Lord, who protects the stranger

and upholds the widow and orphan.

It is the Lord who loves the just

but thwarts the path of the wicked.

The Lord will reign for ever,

Zion’s God, from age to age.

Glory to the Father….

Word of God. Isaiah 58:8-9a

Your light shall break forth like the dawn,/ and your wound shall quickly be healed;/ Your vindication shall go before you,/ and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard./ Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer,/ you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!

For you who fear my name, there will arise/

the sun of justice with its healing rays.

(Mal 3:20)

Canticle of Mary

In the sight of all the people, I will reveal my glory. (Lv 10:3)

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,

my spirit rejoices in God my Savior

for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed:

the Almighty has done great things for me,

and holy is his Name.

He has mercy on those who fear him

in every generation.

He has shown the strength of his arm,

[he] has scattered the proud in their conceit.

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,

and has lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things,

and the rich he has sent away empty.

He has come to the help of his servant Israel

for he has remembered his promise of mercy,

the promise he made to our fathers,

to Abraham and his children for ever.

Glory to the Father…

Intercessions

Trusting in the mercy of God revealed in Jesus Christ, we pray:

R/You keep faith for ever.

For those who turn to you in their need:

– hear and heal them, O Lord. R/

For those blinded by illness, accident, or malice:

– restore light to their eyes and their hearts, O Lord. R/

For those imprisoned in the fear of death:

– free them for eternal life, O Lord. R/

Personal intentions

Our Father….

May the Lord be kind and faithful to us. Amen. (cf. 2 Sm 2:6)

Marian Antiphon

Antiphon for the Saturday Office

of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Mother of God, Mary, perpetual Virgin,

temple of the Lord, shrine of the Holy Spirit,

you alone without compare were pleasing

to the Lord Jesus Christ;

pray for the people, intervene for the clergy;

intercede for devout women.

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli

porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,

surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,

natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem,

Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore

sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

Loving mother of the Redeemer

Loving mother of the Redeemer,

gate of heaven, star of the sea,

assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again.

To the wonderment of nature you bore your Creator,

yet remained a virgin after as before.

You who received Gabriel’s joyful greeting,

have pity on us, poor sinners.

V/ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,

R/ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Salve Regina

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;

vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.

Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes

in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra,

illos tuos misericordes oculos

ad nos converte.

Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,

nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy,

our life, our sweetness, and our hope.

To you do we cry,

poor banished children of Eve.

To you do we send up our sighs,

mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, O most gracious advocate,

your eyes of mercy toward us,

and after this our exile

show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

V/ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,

R/ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.