Prayer for the Evening

Jesus Christ is Lord!
Come, let us adore! Alleluia!

Glory to the Father…. Alleluia!

HymnMeter: 10 10 10 10
This hymn can be sung to the tune used for
Abide with Me

Glory to God! The morn appointed breaks,
And earth awakes from all the woeful past;
For, with the morn, the Lord of life awakes,
And sin and death into the grave are cast.

Glory to God! The cross, with all its shame
Now sheds its glory o’er a ransomed world;
For he who bore the burden of our blame,
With piercèd hands the foe to hell has hurled.

Glory to God! Sing ransomed souls again,
And let your songs our glorious Victor laud,
Who by his might has snapped the tyrant’s chain,
And set us free to rise with him to God.

Canticle of Isaiah 52:13-15; 53:2-5

This Jesus is “the stone rejected by the builders, which has become the cornerstone.” Alleluia! (cf. Acts 4:11)

We rise to freedom in Jesus Christ, who took on the form of a slave in order to bring all the world to the freedom of God’s children. Faith in him is the cornerstone upon which the new world is built.

See, my servant shall prosper,
he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.
Even as many were amazed at him—
so marred was his look beyond that of man,
and his appearance beyond that of mortals—

So shall he startle many nations,
because of him kings shall stand speechless;
For those who have not been told shall see,
those who have not heard shall ponder it.

He grew up like a sapling before him,
like a shoot from the parched earth;
There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him,
nor appearance that would attract us to him.

He was spurned and avoided by men,
a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,
One of those from whom men hide their faces,
spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,
our sufferings that he endured,
While we thought of him as stricken,
as one smitten by God and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our offenses,
crushed for our sins,
Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole,
by his stripes we were healed.

Glory to the Father….

Word of God1 Peter 2:4-5

Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

A wise man builds his house on rock! (cf. Mt 7:24)

Te Deum(Text, back cover C)

There is no salvation in anyone else, for there is no other name in the whole world given to the human race by which we are to be saved. Alleluia! (cf. Acts 4:12)

Intercessions

Before the Lord exalted, let us offer humble prayer:

R/MWe adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world!

You became a slave to set us free:
– grant us the wisdom to choose humility in place of pride. R/

You became obedient to heal our disobedience:
– grant us the grace to surrender our lives into your hands. R/

You died to take away our death:
– raise up all our beloved dead. R/

Personal intentions

Our Father….

May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. (cf. 2 Tm 1:2)

Marian Antiphon(page 10 or 12)