Week 1 Monday Evening

Hail, gladdening Light, / of His pure glory poured
Who is th'immortal Father, / heavenly, blessed
Holiest of Holies - / Jesus Christ our Lord!
Now as we come / to the sun's hour of rest
The lights of the evening / round us shine
We hymn the Father, / Son and Holy Spirit divine!
Worthiest art thou / at all times to be sung
With undefiled tongue / Son of our God, giver of life, alone:
Therefore in all the world / thy glories, Lord, they own.
Amen.

O LORD, I have called to you, come to me quickly! / Listen to my voice when I call to you.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; / the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth. / Keep the door of my lips.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. / As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

My soul magnifies the Lord. / My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
For he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. / For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
For he who is mighty has done great things for me. / Holy is his name.
His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him. / He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. / He has put down princes from their thrones and has exalted the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things. / He has sent the rich away empty.
He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, / As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever.
Amen.



Psalm 53

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, / and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
God looks down from heaven on the children of men, / to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. / There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, / who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, / for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, / because God has rejected them.
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! / When God brings back his people from captivity,
then Jacob shall rejoice, / and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 119 Aleph

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, / who walk according to the LORD’s law.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, / who seek him with their whole heart.
Yes, they do nothing wrong. / They walk in his ways.
You have commanded your precepts, / that we should fully obey them.
Oh that my ways were steadfast / to obey your statutes!
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, / when I consider all of your commandments.
I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, / when I learn your righteous judgements.
I will observe your statutes. / Don’t utterly forsake me

Psalm 50

The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, / and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, / God shines forth.
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. / A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, / that he may judge his people:
“Gather my saints together to me, / those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, / for God himself is judge. Selah.
“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. / I am God, your God.
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. / Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall, / nor male goats from your pens.
For every animal of the forest is mine, / and the livestock on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains. / The wild animals of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, / for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, / or drink the blood of goats?
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. / Pay your vows to the Most High.
Call on me in the day of trouble. / I will deliver you, and you will honour me.”
But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, / that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction, / and throw my words behind you?
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, / and have participated with adulterers.
“You give your mouth to evil. / Your tongue frames deceit.
You sit and speak against your brother. / You slander your own mother’s son.
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. / I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
“Now consider this, you who forget God, / lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, / and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Lord, now you let your servant depart in peace / according to your word
For my eyes have seen / your salvation
Which you have prepared / before the face of all peoples
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles / and the glory of your people, Israel
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. / As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  This is the first and great commandment.  The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Lord, have mercy upon us and write both these your laws in our hearts, we beseech you.
Lord, have mercy upon us. / Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us. / Let us pray.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed by thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
From all evil and mischief, from sin, and from the crafts and assaults of the Devil, / from your wrath and from everlasting condemnation,
Good Lord, deliver us
From all blindness of heart, from pride, vanity, and hypocrisy, / from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness,
Good Lord, deliver us
From all uncleanness in thought, word and deed, / and from all deceits of the world, the flesh and the Devil
Good Lord, deliver us
By the mystery of your holy Incarnation, by your holy Nativity, / by your Baptism, Fasting and Temptation,
Good Lord, deliver us
By your Agony and bloody Sweat, by your Cross and Passion, / By your precious Death and Burial,
Good Lord, deliver us
By your glorious Resurrection and Ascension, by your sending of the Holy Spirit, / by your heavenly Intercession and by your Coming again in glory,
Good Lord, deliver us
In all times of tribulation, and in all times of prosperity, / in the hour of death and in the day of judgement,
Good Lord, deliver us

May the peace of God which passes all understanding / keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of Christ.
Amen.