Divinum Officium on Nostr: Vespers — Evening Prayer Friday, April 03, 2026 Passiontide ℣. O God, ✠ come to ...

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Friday, April 03, 2026
Passiontide


℣. O God, ✠ come to my assistance.
℟. O Lord, make haste to help me.

℣. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost.
℟. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

── Hymn ──

Abroad the regal banners fly,
Now shines the cross’s mystery;
Upon it Life did death endure,
And yet by death did life procure.
Who, wounded with a direful spear,
Did, purposely to wash us clear
From stain of sin, pour out a flood
Of precious water mixed with blood.
That which the prophet-king of old
Hath in mysterious verse foretold,
Is now accomplished, whilst we see
God ruling nations from a tree.
O lovely and refulgent tree,
Adorned with purpled majesty;
Culled from a worthy stock, to bear
Those limbs which sanctifièd were.
Blest tree, whose happy branches bore
The wealth that did the world restore;
The beam that did that body weigh
Which raised up hell’s expected prey.
[The following verse is said on bended knee.]
O Cross, our one reliance, hail!
On this triumphant day avail
(sed tempore Passionis)
This holy Passiontide avail
(sed tempore Paschali)
Thou joy of Eastertide, avail
To give fresh merit to the saint,
And pardon to the penitent.
Blest Trinity, salvation’s spring,
May every soul thy praises sing;
To those thou grantest conquest by
The holy cross, rewards apply.
Amen.

── Psalms ──

Ant. Lord, * thou hast proved me, and known me.

Psalm 138:1-13

Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: * (2) thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: * my path and my life thou hast searched out.

☩ Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
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