SATURDAY - 1st Week
Morning Prayers – LAUDS
Invitatory Prayers
herePsalm 118 (119) 145-152
Ant. 1
Ordinary:
To you, oh Lord, I cast my eyes from dawn.Christmas-tide:
Tell us, oh shepherds, whom have you seen, who has appeared on earth? We have seen the Lord who has been born, and the hosts of angels praising him, Alleluia.Easter Octave:
Christ has risen from the dead and has enlightened his people, whom he has redeemed with his blood, halleluia.Easter-tide:
In your goodness, Lord, keep me alive, halleluia.With my whole heart I cry;
Answer me, oh Lord.
I will keep your statutes.
I cry to you; save me,
That I may observe your decrees.
I rise before dawn and cry for help;
I put my hope in your words.
My eyes are awake before each watch of the night,
That I may meditate on your promise.
In your steadfast love hear my voice;
Oh Lord, in your justice preserve my life.
Those who persecute me with evil purpose draw near;
They are far from your law.
Yet you are near, oh Lord,
All your commandments are true.
Long ago I learned from your decrees
That you have established them forever.
Ant. 1
Ordinary:
To you, oh Lord, I cast my eyes from dawn.Christmas-tide:
Tell us, oh shepherds, whom have you seen, who has appeared on earth? We have seen the Lord who has been born, and the hosts of angels praising him, Alleluia.Easter Octave:
Christ has risen from the dead and has enlightened his people, whom he has redeemed with his blood, halleluia.Easter-tide:
In your goodness, Lord, keep me alive, halleluia.
Exodus 15, 1-18
Ant. 2
Ordinary:
My strength and my song is the Lord, he has become my salvation.Easter Octave:
Christ has risen from the dead and has enlightened his people, whom he has redeemed with his blood, halleluia.Easter-tide:
The victors sing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, halleluia.I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my song,
He has become my salvation;
This is my God, and I will praise him,
My father’s God, and I will exalt him.
The Lord is a man of war; Yahweh is his name.
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea.
At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up,
The floods stood up in a heap;
The deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said, "I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword,
My hand shall destroy them."
You have blown with your wind,
The sea covered them;
They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Who is like you, oh Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
Terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
You have stretched out your right hand,
The earth swallowed them.
In your steadfast love you have led the people you redeemed,
By your strength you have guided them to your holy abode.
You will bring them in, and plant them
On your own mountain,
The place, oh Lord; which you have set up for your abode,
The sanctuary,oh Lord, which your hands have established.
The Lord will reign
for ever and ever ."
Ant. 2
Ordinary:
My strength and my song is the Lord, he has become my salvation.Easter Octave:
Christ has risen from the dead and has enlightened his people, whom he has redeemed with his blood, halleluia.Easter-tide:
The victors sing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, halleluia.Psalm 116 (117)
Ant. 3
Ordinary:
All nations praise the Lord!Easter Octave:
Halleluiah, the Lord has arisen as he had told you, halleluia.Easter-tide:
The Lord’s goodness with us is great, halleluia.Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
The faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Ant. 3
Ordinary:
All nations praise the Lord!Easter Octave:
Halleluiah, the Lord has arisen as he had told you, halleluia.Easter-tide:
The Lord’s goodness with us is great, halleluia.Short Lesson in Ordinary Time
2 Pt 1, 10-11
Therefore, brethren, be the more zealous to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, ye shall never fall. So there will be abundantly provided for you an entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
End Prayers
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