🔔 Terce #LiturgyOfTheHours

Mark 15:25 #TheGospelOfMark

📖(VGCLEM):  Erat autem hora tertia: et crucifixerunt eum.
📖(NRSVue): It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

Let your prayers be made at “the third hour”; for then it was that Pilate gave sentence upon our Lord and savior to have him crucified…. Let your prayers be made also at the sixth hour; for at that time he was crucified…. We observe also “the ninth hour” of prayer; for at that time the sun was darkened and the earth shaken with horror, as being not able to look upon those bitter cruelties.
- The Apostolic Constitutions (AD 375)

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All-powerful and ever-living God, direct your love that is within us, that our efforts in the name of your Son may bring mankind to unity and peace.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

✞ ✞ ✞

Amen

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O marvelous exchange! Man’s Creator has become man, born of a virgin. We have been made sharers in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

- 2nd Vespers, The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
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Evening Prayer, Ps. 111

I will thank the Lord with all my heart
in the meeting of the just and their assembly.
Great are the works of the Lord,
to be pondered by all who love them.

Majestic and glorious his work,
his justice stands firm for ever.
He makes us remember his wonders.
The Lord is compassion and love.

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“How often I have longed to gather your children as a hen gathers her brood under her wing” #GospelofMatthew 23:37
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Week II - Saturday Morning #AdventSeason

From the 7th century hymn Conditor Alme Siderum:

Creator of the stars of night,
Your people’s everlasting light,
Jesus, Redeemer, save us all,
And hear your servants when they call.

Now, grieving that the ancient curse
Should doom to death a universe,
You heal all those who need your grace
To save and heal a ruined race.

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From the 7th century hymn Conditor Alme Siderum:

Creator of the stars of night,
Your people’s everlasting light,
Jesus, Redeemer, save us all,
And hear your servants when they call.

Now, grieving that the ancient curse
Should doom to death a universe,
You heal all those who need your grace
To save and heal a ruined race.

#Catholic #Advent #Breviary #LiturgyOfTheHours #EveningPrayer

"Oh rescue me, God my helper, and my tongue shall ring out your goodness."

I love that Friday Lauds always* contains Psalm 51. It is at once humbling and hopeful.

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