Week 1 Wednesday 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 35: 1-17

Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me. / Fight against those who fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, / and stand up for my help.
Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. / Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonour. / Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Let them be as chaff before the wind, / The LORD’s angel driving them on.
Let their way be dark and slippery, / The LORD’s angel pursuing them.
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. / Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Let destruction come on him unawares. / Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. / It shall rejoice in his salvation.
All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; / yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. / They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
They reward me evil for good, / to the bereaving of my soul.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. / I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. / I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. / The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Like the profane mockers in feasts, / they gnashed their teeth at me.
Lord, how long will you look on? / Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Psalm 35: 18-28

I will give you thanks in the great assembly. / I will praise you among many people.
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; / neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
For they don’t speak peace, / but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. / They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
You have seen it, LORD. / Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! / My Lord, contend for me!
Vindicate me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness. / Don’t let them gloat over me.
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” / Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. / Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me.
Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favour my righteous cause. / Yes, let them say continually, “The LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
My tongue shall talk about your righteousness / and about your praise all day long.


Psalm 119 Gimel

Do good to your servant. / I will live and I will obey your word.
Open my eyes, / that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
I am a stranger on the earth. / Don’t hide your commandments from me.
My soul is consumed with longing / for your ordinances at all times.
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, / who wander from your commandments.
Take reproach and contempt away from me, / for I have kept your statutes.
Though princes sit and slander me, / your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Indeed your statutes are my delight, / and my counsellors.

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.