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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 Love!
~Thanks be to God!
Stay with us O Christ, for it is evening,
~And the day is almost over.
MONDAY EVENING HYMN
O good Creator, God most high,
Who spread the ocean of the sky,
And with a word of thund’ring force
Divide chaotic water’s course.
Who give the rains a lofty place
And guide the rivers as they race,
That flowing waters be at hand
To save the scorched and thirsty land.
O flood us from your font above
With living waters of your love,
To bathe in grace the wounded part
Of ev’ry troubled human heart.
Resore our weak and weary sight
In streams of faith’s abundant light,
And turn our quest for passing things
To thirst for everlasting springs.
O Abba, this we ask be done
Through Jesus Christ, your well-loved Son,
Whom in the Spirit we adore:
One God who loves forevermore. Amen.
Text: Immense caeli Donditor, tr. Keith McClellan, OSB, alt.; Tune: Plainsong
SERVICE OF THE WORD
PSALMODY
Antiphon/Refrain
How lovely is your dwelling place Adonai, Sabbaoth!
Psalm 84
My soul yearns and pines for your courts, Adonai,
my heart and my flesh cry out;
even the sparrow may find a home,
the swallow a nest for her young;
Your altars, my Love and my God.
How happy are those who dwell in your courts,
how happy when you are their strength!
Though they might go through the valley of death,
they make it a place of springs.
Your first rains bring it to life.
O God of Hosts, hear my cry,
and hearken O God of Jacob:
one day in your house
is worth much more to me
than ten thousand anywhere else;
for you are my sun and my shield.
Text: Psalm 84; Setting J. Michael Joncas, alt.
READING 2 Corinthians 8: 13-15
As a matter of equality your surplus at the present time should supply the needs of others,
so that their surplus may also supply your needs, that there may be equality.
As it is written: Whoever had much did not have more,
and whoever had little did not have less.
Responsory
R. Bear one another’s burdens, *and so fulfill the law of Christ .
V. Look to each other’s interests, *and so fulfill the law of Christ .
V. Glory to the Abba and to the Word and to the Holy Breath of Love.
Gospel Canticle of Mary
Antiphon
Do not judge and you will not be judged.
For whatever you measure out to others will be measured back to you.
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 sends the rich away empty..
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
Do not judge and you will not be judged.
For whatever you measure out to others will be measured back to you.
SERVICE OF PRAYER
Litany of Intercession
Christ our light, brighten your Church with your splendor,
– so that she may be for the nations the great sacrament of your love.
Watch over the teachers and leaders of your Church,
– so that after they have preached to others, they themselves may remain faithful in your service.
Help those committed to each other in marriage with an abundance of your grace,
– so that they may witness to the constancy of your love in our lives.
Fill our dwellings with your goodness and mercy,
– that nations may work to change war into peace.
In your mercy grant eternal rest to all who have died;
– and consolation to those who grieve their passing.
Prayer of Jesus
Our Father …
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, we pray for all suffering from drought and we give thanks for the rain that has fallen in other places. Strengthen our commitment to conserve and share the precious gift of water with wisdom and respect. Amen.
May the God of all creation + bless us with a thirst for justice. Amen.
Let us bless Adonai! ~Thanks be to God.
Those who wish may end evening prayer with the Salve Regina
Marian Antiphon
Mother of Mercy, Our Queen we greet you. Our life, our hope, our happiness we hail you.
We call to you as Eve’s own children, and exiles. To you we lift our hearts in sorrow and fear, in this valley of tears. Turn then, our loving Advocate, and look with favor upon us.
And after our life in exile, show us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O gracious, O loving, O Virgin benign, our Mother Mary.
Pray for us, Holy Mother of God ~ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray. Holy, Mighty and Immortal God, through the working of the Holy Spirit, you
prepared the body and soul of the glorious virgin Mother Mary, as a worthy dwelling for your Word; grant that we, who celebrate her memory each evening, may with the help of her prayers, be freed from ever-present evil, and come to share the fulness of life eternal. Amen.