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Service of Light

Greeting/Invocation

 We light the Evening Candle and say or sing:

Light and Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord!

~Thanks be to God!

 

Stay with us Lord for it is evening,

~And the day is almost over.

 

MONDAY EVENING HYMN

The Shaper of the turning world

Whose pow’r no mortal mind can know

Dispelling chaos holds apart

The swirling waters’ massive flow.

 

The sky is fashioned for the clouds,

The earth is veined with myriad streams,

To staunch the sun’s corrosive heat

And cool the harshness of her flames.

 

Good Abba, send in time of need

The calming gift of silent grace,

Lest in our hearts deceit should tear

The quiet fabric of your peace.

 

In this great darkness make our faith

A light to be our constant guide

That we may choose the narrow way

And not the way of wounded pride.

 

Most loving Abba, grant our prayer

Through Jesus Christ, your well-loved Son, 

That in your Spirit we may live

And praise your glory ever one.  Amen.  

Text: Ralph Wright, OSB, alt. ; Tune: Plainsong

 

 

 SERVICE OF THE WORD

PSALMODY

 Antiphon

I lie down in peace, and sleep comes at once

for Adonai makes me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4

When I call, answer me, O God of Justice!

from oppression you released me,

have mercy now, and hear me!

 

You rebels, how long

will keep your hearts closed,

will you love what is useless

and seek what is stupid and false?

 

It is Adonai who is kind

to those who are generous in mercy;

I pray that Adonai

will hear whenever I call.

 

Tremble, do not sin,

ponder on your bed and be still.

Make justice your sacrifice

and trust in our God.

 

Many people ask,

“What will make me happy?”

Let your face shine on us, O Adonai,

For you have put into our hearts greater joy,

than others provide with abundance of food and barrels of wine.

 

I lie down in peace, and sleep comes at once

for you, Adonai, make me dwell in safety.

 

Glory to the ONE and to the WORD

And to the BREATH of Love;

as always before,

so now and evermore. Amen.

I lie down in peace, and sleep comes at once

for Adonai makes me dwell in safety.

Reading   2 Samuel 5:1-3

All the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said: “Here we are, your bone and your flesh. In days past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led the children of Israel out and brought them back. And Adonai said to you, ‘You shall shepherd my people Israel
and shall be commander of Israel.’”
When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron,  King David made an agreement with them there before Adonai, and they anointed him king of Israel.

Responsory

R. I have set my crown on a shepherd, I have exalted one chosen from the people, *My hand shall always be with him.   V. I have found David, my servant and with my holy oil I have anointed him, *My hand shall always be with him. 

Gospel Canticle of Mary

Antiphon

 God has always helped Servant Israel,

showing such loving kindness.

It is customary to make the sign of the cross at the beginning of the Gospel Canticle.

My heart + is radiant with the Lord,

My whole being delights in God my Savior.

 

All people now will call me blessed

For God has loved this humble handmaid.

The Almighty has shown me great favor

Holy is the NAME,

 

Whose mercy embraces the faithful,

From one generation to the next.

The mighty arm of God,

Scatters the proud in their own conceit,

 

Pulls tyrants from their thrones

While lifting up the lowly:

Fills the famished with bounty,

And reveals the emptiness of riches.

 

Rescues lowly Israel,

Sharing such loving kindness,

As promised to our ancestors

To Abraham and Sarah, and their descendants forever.

 

Glory to the ONE and to  WORD

And to the BREATH of Love!

As always before,

so now and evermore.  Amen

God has always helped Servant Israel,

showing such loving kindness.

 

Service of Prayer

Litany of Intercession

For all who thirst—whose lives are endangered by lack of safe water to drink—whose crops and livestock whither from lack of rain, ~God, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

 

For the millions of women and girls who spend much of their days fetching water for their families, animals and crops, ~God, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

 

For all who suffer from too much water—from tsunamis and floods—and from the death and destruction, dampness and disease carried in the aftermath, ~God, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

 

For those who hoard water, who waste it or pollute it—forcing others to pay excessively for water that rightfully belongs to all, ~God, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

 

For those whose bodies, minds and spirits languish—cut off from the endless flow of God’s love revealed in self and others, in all creatures and all of creation, ~God, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

 

Prayer of Jesus

Our Dear Abba in heaven …

 

Closing Prayer & Blessing

Creator God, we stand in wonder and awe before your gift of water that brings life and nourishment through streams and rivers, marshes and swamps, lakes, seas and oceans!  We marvel at water’s beauty and diversity of forms in dew and mist, rain and snow, hail and ice, humidity, vapor and steam.  As we celebrate  the creation and distribution of water on this second day of the week, strengthen our commitment to conserve and share this gift with wisdom and respect.   For yours is the glory and power of love now and forever.  Amen.

 

May the God of all creation +   bless us with a hunger and thirst for justice.   Amen.

 

Let us bless Adonai!    ~And give thanks to God.

 

Those who wish may end evening prayer with the Marian Antiphon for this season.

Marian Antiphon

 

Loving Mother of our Savior, holding open heaven’s only hope, Star for steerage in this vastness, rise to help us, save the sinking.  Nature’s greatest  Wonder: you have borne your own true Maker, giving human life to him. Virgin ever, before and after, that Good News from Gabriel, Word of Life for living, tell it now: mercy to all people!

 

The angel of the Lord brought the message to Mary. ~ And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

 

Let us pray.  Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ, your Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may, by his Passion and Cross, be brought to the glory of his Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.  Amen.