Prayer for the Evening (Tuesday, January 4)
Prayer for the Evening
Let our lips be filled with God’s praise.
Glory to the Father…. Alleluia!
Hymn
We praise you, Lord, with joy this day
As proudly we proclaim
That in her life this woman’s love
Has glorified your name.
She longed for Christ, she yearned for him
To see him face to face,
And through the long and patient years
She found in him her peace.
She walked in harmony with God,
Her eyes were on the Lord,
And in the struggles of each day
Her calm was in his word.
Psalm 63:2-9
Go, then! It is I who will assist you in speaking and will teach you what you are to say. (Ex 4:12)
Elizabeth Ann Seton taught to her own family, to her religious community, and to the countless children educated by her Sisters of Charity the wonders of God’s love which she had learned in meditation, prayer, and obedience to God’s word.
O God, you are my God, for you I long;
for you my soul is thirsting.
My body pines for you
like a dry, weary land without water.
So I gaze on you in the sanctuary
to see your strength and your glory.
For your love is better than life,
my lips will speak your praise.
So I will bless you all my life,
in your name I will lift up my hands.
My soul shall be filled as with a banquet,
my mouth shall praise you with joy.
On my bed I remember you.
On you I muse through the night
for you have been my help;
in the shadow of your wings I rejoice.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand holds me fast.
Glory to the Father….
Word of God. Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. (Eph 5:10)
Canticle of Mary
If you are willing to listen, you will learn;/ if you give heed, you will be wise. (Sir 6:33)
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
God teaches us the way of salvation. Let us pray through the intercession of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton that the gifts of teaching and learning may flourish among us:
R/Our hope has always been in you!
Fill all who thirst for knowledge
– especially for knowledge of you: R/
Direct the efforts of all parents
– to form and educate their children: R/
Send gifted, conscientious, and committed teachers to all the corners of our nation and the world
– to foster the human capacity to know, to understand, and to love: R/
Grant creativity and wisdom
– to all who are responsible for designing and administering educational programs of every kind: R/
Personal intentions
Our Father….
Peace be to all, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. (cf. Eph 6:23)
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, 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,
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, 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.
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