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2026-04-05 02:00:01 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. May my request * come before thee, O Lord.
Psalm 87
Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
Let my prayer come in before thee: * incline thy ear to my petition.
For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: * I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.
Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: * and they are cast off from thy hand.
They have laid me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
Thy wrath is strong over me: * and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: * they have set me an abomination to themselves.
I was delivered up, and came not forth: * my eyes languished through poverty.
All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: * I stretched out my hands to thee.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? * or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: * and thy truth in destruction?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; * and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
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2026-04-04 23:00:07 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
℣. 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. Blessed be the Lord * my support, and my deliverer.
Psalm 143:1-8
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, * and my fingers to war.
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2026-04-04 20:00:03 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
℣. 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. O God, be thou not silent * for the mouth of the wicked man is opened against me.
Psalm 108:2-13
God, be not thou silent in my praise: * for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; * and have fought against me without cause.
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: * but I gave myself to prayer.
And they repaid me evil for good: * and hatred for my love.
Set thou the sinner over him: * and may the devil stand at his right hand.
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; * and may his prayer be turned to sin.
May his days be few: * and his bishopric let another take.
May his children be fatherless, * and his wife a widow.
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; * and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
May the usurer search all his substance: * and let strangers plunder his labours.
May there be none to help him: * nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
May his posterity be cut off; * in one generation may his name be blotted out.
Psalm 108:14-21
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: * and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: * because he remembered not to shew mercy,
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; * and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: * and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him.
And he put on cursing, like a garment: * and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; * and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; * and who speak evils against my soul.
☩ Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
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2026-04-04 17:00:02 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
℣. 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. O Lord, my God, * thou art exceedingly great.
Psalm 103:1-12
Bless the Lord, O my soul: * O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.
Thou hast put on praise and beauty: * and art clothed with light as with a garment.
Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: * who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water.
Who makest the clouds thy chariot: * who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
Who makest thy angels spirits: * and thy ministers a burning fire.
Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: * it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
The deep like a garment is its clothing: * above the mountains shall the waters stand.
At thy rebuke they shall flee: * at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.
The mountains ascend, and the plains descend * into the place which thou hast founded for them.
Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; * neither shall they return to cover the earth.
Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: * between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.
All the beasts of the field shall drink: * the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.
Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: * from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.
Psalm 103:13-23
Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: * the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:
Bringing forth grass for cattle, * and herb for the service of men.
That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: * and that wine may cheer the heart of man.
That he may make the face cheerful with oil: * and that bread may strengthen man’s heart.
The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: * there the sparrows shall make their nests.
The highest of them is the house of the heron. * The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.
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2026-04-04 14:00:05 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
℣. 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Let my cry reach unto thee, O Lord: * turn not away thy face from me.
Psalm 101:2-13
Hear, O Lord, my prayer: * and let my cry come to thee.
Turn not away thy face from me: * in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * hear me speedily.
For my days are vanished like smoke: * and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: * because I forgot to eat my bread.
Through the voice of my groaning, * my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: * I am like a night raven in the house.
I have watched, * and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
All the day long my enemies reproached me: * and they that praised me did swear against me.
For I did eat ashes like bread, * and mingled my drink with weeping.
Because of thy anger and indignation: * for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
My days have declined like a shadow, * and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: * and thy memorial to all generations.
Psalm 101:14-23
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: * for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: * and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, * and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
For the Lord hath built up Sion: * and he shall be seen in his glory.
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: * and he hath not despised their petition.
Let these things be written unto another generation: * and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
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2026-04-04 12:00:02 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
℣. 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Lift up thyself, O Lord, * thou that judgest the earth: render retribution to the proud.
Psalm 93:1-11
The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: * the God of revenge hath acted freely.
Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: * render a reward to the proud.
How long shall sinners, O Lord: * how long shall sinners glory?
Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: * shall all speak who work injustice?
Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: * and they have afflicted thy inheritance.
They have slain the widow and the stranger: * and they have murdered the fatherless.
And they have said: The Lord shall not see: * neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
Understand, ye senseless among the people: * and, you fools, be wise at last.
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? * or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?
He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: * he that teacheth man knowledge?
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, * that they are vain.
Psalm 93:12-23
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2026-04-04 11:00:02 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Passiontide
S. Isidore of Seville, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church
℣. 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Let the children of Sion * be joyful in their king.
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2026-04-04 02:00:02 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Friday, April 03, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. I have cried * to the Lord with my voice, do not forget to show mercy, O God.
Psalm 76:2-13
I cried to the Lord with my voice; * to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, * and I was not deceived.
My soul refused to be comforted: * I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
My eyes prevented the watches: * I was troubled, and I spoke not.
I thought upon the days of old: * and I had in my mind the eternal years.
And I meditated in the night with my own heart: * and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
Will God then cast off for ever? * or will he never be more favourable again?
Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, * from generation to generation?
Or will God forget to shew mercy? * or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?
And I said, Now have I begun: * this is the change of the right hand of the most High.
I remembered the works of the Lord: * for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.
And I will meditate on all thy works: * and will be employed in thy inventions.
Psalm 76:14-21
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2026-04-03 23:00:01 UTC

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.
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2026-04-03 20:00:04 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Mercy and truth * shall go before thy face, O Lord.
Psalm 88:2-19
The mercies of the Lord * I will sing for ever.
I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth * to generation and generation.
For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: * thy truth shall be prepared in them.
I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: * Thy seed will I settle for ever.
And I will build up thy throne * unto generation and generation.
The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: * and thy truth in the church of the saints.
For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: * or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: * great and terrible above all them that are about him.
O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? * thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
Thou rulest the power of the sea: * and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: * with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: * the north and the sea thou hast created.
Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: * thy arm is with might.
Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: * justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: * blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation.
They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, * and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
For thou art the glory of their strength: * and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
For our protection is of the Lord, * and of our king the holy one of Israel.
Psalm 88:20-38
Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: * I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
I have found David my servant: * with my holy oil I have anointed him.
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2026-04-03 17:00:05 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Blessed are they * that dwell in thy house, O Lord.
Psalm 83:2-8
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! * my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh * have rejoiced in the living God.
For the sparrow hath found herself a house, * and the turtledove a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones:
Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, * my king and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: * they shall praise thee for ever and ever.
Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: * in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: * the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
Psalm 83:9-13
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: * give ear, O God of Jacob.
Behold, O God our protector: * and look on the face of thy Christ.
For better is one day in thy courts * above thousands.
I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, * rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
For God loveth mercy and truth: * the Lord will give grace and glory.
He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: * O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 86
The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: * The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of thee, * O city of God.
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon * knowing me.
Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, * these were there.
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2026-04-03 14:00:02 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Stir up thy might, O Lord, * and come to save us.
Psalm 79:2-8
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: * thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, * shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.
Stir up thy might, and come * to save us.
Convert us, O God: * and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: * and give us for our drink tears in measure?
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: * and our enemies have scoffed at us.
O God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 79:9-20
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: * thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: * thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
The shadow of it covered the hills: * and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, * and its boughs unto the river.
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, * so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: * and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
Turn again, O God of hosts, * look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
Things set on fire and dug down * shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: * and we will call upon thy name.
O Lord God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
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2026-04-03 12:00:00 UTC

Prime — First Hour
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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Depart not from me, * O Lord, for tribulation is very near; for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:2-12
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: * and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.
In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb.
From my mother’s womb thou art my God, * depart not from me.
For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:13-23
Many calves have surrounded me: * fat bulls have besieged me.
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2026-04-03 11:00:01 UTC

Lauds — Morning 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Exalt ye the Lord * our God, and worship him upon his holy mountain.
Psalm 98
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2026-04-03 02:00:06 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Thou art my helper * and my deliverer, O Lord.
Psalm 76:2-13
I cried to the Lord with my voice; * to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, * and I was not deceived.
My soul refused to be comforted: * I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
My eyes prevented the watches: * I was troubled, and I spoke not.
I thought upon the days of old: * and I had in my mind the eternal years.
And I meditated in the night with my own heart: * and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
Will God then cast off for ever? * or will he never be more favourable again?
Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, * from generation to generation?
Or will God forget to shew mercy? * or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?
And I said, Now have I begun: * this is the change of the right hand of the most High.
I remembered the works of the Lord: * for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.
And I will meditate on all thy works: * and will be employed in thy inventions.
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2026-04-02 23:00:01 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
℣. 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. Behold how good * and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Psalm 132
Behold how good and how pleasant it is * for brethren to dwell together in unity:
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2026-04-02 20:00:06 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. We will call * upon thy name O Lord. We will relate thy wondrous works.
Psalm 88:2-19
The mercies of the Lord * I will sing for ever.
I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth * to generation and generation.
For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: * thy truth shall be prepared in them.
I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: * Thy seed will I settle for ever.
And I will build up thy throne * unto generation and generation.
The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: * and thy truth in the church of the saints.
For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: * or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: * great and terrible above all them that are about him.
O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? * thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
Thou rulest the power of the sea: * and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: * with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: * the north and the sea thou hast created.
Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: * thy arm is with might.
Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: * justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: * blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation.
They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, * and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
For thou art the glory of their strength: * and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
For our protection is of the Lord, * and of our king the holy one of Israel.
Psalm 88:20-38
Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: * I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
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2026-04-02 17:00:01 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Remember * thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning.
Psalm 83:2-8
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! * my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh * have rejoiced in the living God.
For the sparrow hath found herself a house, * and the turtledove a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones:
Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, * my king and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: * they shall praise thee for ever and ever.
Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: * in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: * the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
Psalm 83:9-13
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: * give ear, O God of Jacob.
Behold, O God our protector: * and look on the face of thy Christ.
For better is one day in thy courts * above thousands.
I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, * rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
For God loveth mercy and truth: * the Lord will give grace and glory.
He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: * O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 86
The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: * The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of thee, * O city of God.
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon * knowing me.
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2026-04-02 14:00:01 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. How good is God * to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
Psalm 79:2-8
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: * thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, * shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.
Stir up thy might, and come * to save us.
Convert us, O God: * and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: * and give us for our drink tears in measure?
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: * and our enemies have scoffed at us.
O God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 79:9-20
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: * thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: * thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
The shadow of it covered the hills: * and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, * and its boughs unto the river.
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, * so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: * and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
Turn again, O God of hosts, * look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
Things set on fire and dug down * shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: * and we will call upon thy name.
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2026-04-02 12:00:01 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The Lord hath set me * in a place of pasture.
Psalm 21:2-12
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: * and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.
In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb.
From my mother’s womb thou art my God, * depart not from me.
For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:13-23
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2026-04-02 11:00:01 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Passiontide
St. Francis of Paula, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Make a joyful noise * before the Lord our King.
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2026-04-02 02:00:04 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Wednesday, April 01, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The angel of the Lord * shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.
Psalm 33:2-11
I will bless the Lord at all times, * his praise shall be always in my mouth.
In the Lord shall my soul be praised: * let the meek hear and rejoice.
O magnify the Lord with me; * and let us extol his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me; * and he delivered me from all my troubles.
Come ye to him and be enlightened: * and your faces shall not be confounded.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: * and saved him out of all his troubles.
The Angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: * and shall deliver them.
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: * blessed is the man that hopeth in him.
Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: * for there is no want to them that fear him.
The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: * but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.
Psalm 33:12-23
Come, children, hearken to me: * I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
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2026-04-01 23:00:03 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Wednesday, April 01, 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. Blessed are all * they that fear the Lord.
Psalm 127
Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: * that walk in his ways.
For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: * blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
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2026-04-01 20:00:05 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Wednesday, April 01, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. My God, * his mercy shall prevent me.
Psalm 58:2-11
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; * and defend me from them that rise up against me.
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, * and save me from bloody men.
For behold they have caught my soul: * the mighty have rushed in upon me:
Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: * without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: * even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel.
Attend to visit all the nations: * have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.
They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: * for who, say they, hath heard us?
But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: * thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector: * my God, his mercy shall prevent me.
Psalm 58:12-18
God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, * lest at any time my people forget.
And scatter them by thy power; * and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: * and let them be taken in their pride.
And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, when they are consumed: * when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more.
And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, * and all the ends of the earth.
They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, * and shall murmur if they be not filled.
But I will sing thy strength: * and will extol thy mercy in the morning.
For thou art become my support, * and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.
Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: * my God my mercy.
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2026-04-01 17:00:06 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Wednesday, April 01, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. In God I have put my trust * I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
Psalm 55
Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; * all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.
My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; * for they are many that make war against me.
From the height of the day I shall fear: * but I will trust in thee.
In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: * I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
All the day long they detested my words: * all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
They will dwell and hide themselves: * they will watch my heel.
As they have waited for my soul, for nothing shalt thou save them: * in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces.
O God, I have declared to thee my life: * thou hast set my tears in thy sight,
As also in thy promise. * Then shall my enemies be turned back.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * behold I know thou art my God.
In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. * In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.
In me, O God, are vows to thee, * which I will pay, praises to thee:
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: * that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.
Psalm 56
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: * for my soul trusteth in thee.
And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, * until iniquity pass away.
I will cry to God the most High; * to God who hath done good to me.
He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: * he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me.
God hath sent his mercy and his truth, * and he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled.
The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, * and their tongue a sharp sword.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, * and thy glory above all the earth.
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2026-04-01 14:00:05 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Wednesday, April 01, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
Psalm 53
Save me, O God, by thy name, * and judge me in thy strength.
O God, hear my prayer: * give ear to the words of my mouth.
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: * and they have not set God before their eyes.
For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
Turn back the evils upon my enemies; * and cut them off in thy truth.
I will freely sacrifice to thee, * and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:
For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: * and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.
Psalm 54:2-16
Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: * be attentive to me and hear me.
I am grieved in my exercise; * and am troubled, at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner.
For they have cast iniquities upon me; * and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
My heart is troubled within me: * and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
Fear and trembling are come upon me: * and darkness hath covered me.
And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, * and I will fly and be at rest?
Lo, I have gone far off flying away; * and I abode in the wilderness.
I waited for him that hath saved me * from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; * for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: * and in the midst thereof are labour, and injustice.
And usury and deceit * have not departed from its streets.
For if my enemy had reviled me, * I would verily have borne with it.
And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, * I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.
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2026-04-01 12:00:05 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Wednesday, April 01, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. For thy mercy, * O Lord, is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.
Psalm 25
Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: * and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; * burn my reins and my heart.
For thy mercy is before my eyes; * and I am well pleased with thy truth.
I have not sat with the council of vanity: * neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.
I have hated the assembly of the malignant; * and with the wicked I will not sit.
I will wash my hands among the innocent; * and will compass thy altar, O Lord:
That I may hear the voice of thy praise: * and tell of all thy wondrous works.
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; * and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: * nor my life with bloody men:
In whose hands are iniquities: * their right hand is filled with gifts.
But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: * redeem me, and have mercy on me.
My foot hath stood in the direct way: * in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.
Psalm 51
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2026-04-01 11:00:06 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Wednesday, April 01, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The Lord hath reigned * let the earth rejoice.
Psalm 96
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2026-04-01 02:00:09 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Thou, O Lord, * wilt preserve us: and keep us for ever.
Psalm 11
Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: * truths are decayed from among the children of men.
They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: * with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, * and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; † our lips are our own; * who is Lord over us?
By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, * now will I arise, saith the Lord.
I will set him in safety; * I will deal confidently in his regard.
The words of the Lord are pure words: * as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us * from this generation for ever.
The wicked walk round about: * according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.
Psalm 12
How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? * how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
How long shall I take counsels in my soul, * sorrow in my heart all the day?
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2026-03-31 23:00:06 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Tuesday, March 31, 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. Thou who dwellest in heaven, * have mercy on us.
Psalm 122
To thee have I lifted up my eyes, * who dwellest in heaven.
Behold as the eyes of servants * are on the hands of their masters,
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2026-03-31 20:00:06 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Tuesday, March 31, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Thou hast saved us, O Lord, * and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
Psalm 43:2-9
We have heard, O God, with our ears: * our fathers have declared to us,
The work thou hast wrought in their days, * and in the days of old.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: * thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: * neither did their own arm save them.
But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: * because thou wast pleased with them.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, * who commandest the saving of Jacob.
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: * and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow: * neither shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: * and hast put them to shame that hate us.
In God shall we glory all the day long: * and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
Psalm 43:10-20
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: * and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: * and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: * thou hast scattered us among the nations.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: * and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, * a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: * a shaking of the head among the people.
All the day long my shame is before me: * and the confusion of my face hath covered me.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: * at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: * and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
And our heart hath not turned back: * neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
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2026-03-31 17:00:06 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Tuesday, March 31, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. But thou hast upheld me, O Lord, * and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
Psalm 40
Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: * the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: * and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: * thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: * heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
My enemies have spoken evils against me: * when shall he die and his name perish?
And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: * his heart gathered together iniquity to itself.
He went out * and spoke to the same purpose.
All my enemies whispered together against me: * they devised evils to me.
They determined against me an unjust word: * shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, * who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: * and I will requite them.
By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: * because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: * and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. * So be it. So be it.
Psalm 41:2-6
As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; * so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; * when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
My tears have been my bread day and night, * whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?
These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: * for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God:
With the voice of joy and praise; * the noise of one feasting.
Why art thou sad, O my soul? * and why dost thou trouble me?
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2026-03-31 14:00:01 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Tuesday, March 31, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The Lord hath heard * my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.
Psalm 39:2-9
With expectation I have waited for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.
And he heard my prayers, * and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs.
And he set my feet upon a rock, * and directed my steps.
And he put a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.
Many shall see, and shall fear: * and they shall hope in the Lord.
Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; * and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: * and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee.
I have declared and I have spoken * they are multiplied above number.
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; * but thou hast pierced ears for me.
Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: * then said I, Behold I come.
In the head of the book it is written of me that I should do thy will: * O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
Psalm 39:10-14
I have declared thy justice in a great church, * lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
I have not hid thy justice within my heart: * I have declared thy truth and thy salvation.
I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth * from a great council.
Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: * thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
For evils without number have surrounded me; * my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see.
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: * and my heart hath forsaken me.
Be pleased, O Lord to deliver me: * look down, O Lord, to help me.
Psalm 39:15-18
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2026-03-31 12:00:03 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Tuesday, March 31, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. In thee, O my God, * I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
Psalm 24:1-7
To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: * In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: * for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
Let all them be confounded that act unjust things * without cause.
Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, * and teach me thy paths.
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; * for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; * and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
The sins of my youth * and my ignorances do not remember.
According to thy mercy remember thou me: * for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
Psalm 24:8-14
The Lord is sweet and righteous: * therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.
He will guide the mild in judgment: * he will teach the meek his ways.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, * to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.
For thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: * for it is great.
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2026-03-31 11:00:05 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Tuesday, March 31, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Sing ye * to the Lord and bless his name.
Psalm 95
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2026-03-31 02:00:01 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Monday, March 30, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Deliver my soul, * O Lord, save me for thy mercy's sake.
Psalm 11
Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: * truths are decayed from among the children of men.
They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: * with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, * and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; † our lips are our own; * who is Lord over us?
By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, * now will I arise, saith the Lord.
I will set him in safety; * I will deal confidently in his regard.
The words of the Lord are pure words: * as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us * from this generation for ever.
The wicked walk round about: * according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.
Psalm 12
How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? * how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
How long shall I take counsels in my soul, * sorrow in my heart all the day?
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2026-03-30 23:00:02 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Monday, March 30, 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. The Lord hath inclined * his ear unto me.
Psalm 114
I have loved, because the Lord will hear * the voice of my prayer.
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: * and in my days I will call upon him.
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2026-03-30 20:00:03 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Monday, March 30, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Rejoice ye just, * and glory, all ye right of heart.
Psalm 43:2-9
We have heard, O God, with our ears: * our fathers have declared to us,
The work thou hast wrought in their days, * and in the days of old.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: * thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: * neither did their own arm save them.
But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: * because thou wast pleased with them.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, * who commandest the saving of Jacob.
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: * and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow: * neither shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: * and hast put them to shame that hate us.
In God shall we glory all the day long: * and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
Psalm 43:10-20
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: * and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: * and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: * thou hast scattered us among the nations.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: * and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, * a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: * a shaking of the head among the people.
All the day long my shame is before me: * and the confusion of my face hath covered me.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: * at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: * and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
And our heart hath not turned back: * neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
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2026-03-30 17:00:02 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Monday, March 30, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Deliver me * in thy justice, O Lord.
Psalm 40
Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: * the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: * and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: * thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: * heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
My enemies have spoken evils against me: * when shall he die and his name perish?
And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: * his heart gathered together iniquity to itself.
He went out * and spoke to the same purpose.
All my enemies whispered together against me: * they devised evils to me.
They determined against me an unjust word: * shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, * who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: * and I will requite them.
By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: * because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: * and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. * So be it. So be it.
Psalm 41:2-6
As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; * so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; * when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
My tears have been my bread day and night, * whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?
These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: * for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God:
With the voice of joy and praise; * the noise of one feasting.
Why art thou sad, O my soul? * and why dost thou trouble me?
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2026-03-30 14:00:06 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Monday, March 30, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. My light * and my salvation is the Lord.
Psalm 39:2-9
With expectation I have waited for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.
And he heard my prayers, * and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs.
And he set my feet upon a rock, * and directed my steps.
And he put a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.
Many shall see, and shall fear: * and they shall hope in the Lord.
Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; * and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: * and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee.
I have declared and I have spoken * they are multiplied above number.
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; * but thou hast pierced ears for me.
Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: * then said I, Behold I come.
In the head of the book it is written of me that I should do thy will: * O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
Psalm 39:10-14
I have declared thy justice in a great church, * lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
I have not hid thy justice within my heart: * I have declared thy truth and thy salvation.
I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth * from a great council.
Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: * thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
For evils without number have surrounded me; * my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see.
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: * and my heart hath forsaken me.
Be pleased, O Lord to deliver me: * look down, O Lord, to help me.
Psalm 39:15-18
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2026-03-30 12:00:04 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Monday, March 30, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The innocent in hands * and clean of heart shall ascend the mountain of the Lord.
Psalm 24:1-7
To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: * In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: * for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
Let all them be confounded that act unjust things * without cause.
Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, * and teach me thy paths.
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; * for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; * and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
The sins of my youth * and my ignorances do not remember.
According to thy mercy remember thou me: * for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
Psalm 24:8-14
The Lord is sweet and righteous: * therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.
He will guide the mild in judgment: * he will teach the meek his ways.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, * to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.
For thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: * for it is great.
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2026-03-30 11:00:06 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Monday, March 30, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. All ye nations * shout unto God with the voice of joy.
Psalm 46
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2026-03-30 02:00:03 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Have mercy * on me, O Lord, and hear my prayer.
Psalm 4
When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: * when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me.
Have mercy on me: * and hear my prayer.
O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? * Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?
Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: * the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.
Be ye angry, and sin not: ‡ the things you say in your hearts, * be sorry for them upon your beds.
Offer up the sacrifice of justice, † and trust in the Lord: * many say, Who sheweth us good things?
The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: * thou hast given gladness in my heart.
By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, * they are multiplied.
In peace in the selfsame * I will sleep, and I will rest:
For thou, O Lord, singularly * hast settled me in hope.
Psalm 90
He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, * shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
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2026-03-29 23:00:03 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Sunday, March 29, 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. The Lord said to my Lord: * Sit thou at my right hand.
Psalm 109
The Lord said to my Lord: * Sit thou at my right hand:
Until I make thy enemies * thy footstool.
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2026-03-29 20:00:01 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Sunday, March 29, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * make thy face to shine upon thy servant, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 118:129-144
(Phe) Thy testimonies are wonderful: * therefore my soul hath sought them.
The declaration of thy words giveth light: * and giveth understanding to little ones.
I opened my mouth, and panted: * because I longed for thy commandments.
Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me, * according to the judgment of them that love thy name.
Direct my steps according to thy word: * and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
Redeem me from the calumnies of men: * that I may keep thy commandments.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: * and teach me thy justifications.
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: * because they have not kept thy law.
(Sade) Thou art just, O Lord: * and thy judgment is right.
Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: * and thy truth exceedingly.
My zeal hath made me pine away: * because my enemies forgot thy words.
Thy word is exceedingly refined: * and thy servant hath loved it.
I am very young and despised; but * I forget not thy justifications.
Thy justice is justice for ever: * and thy law is the truth.
Trouble and anguish have found me: * thy commandments are my meditation.
Thy testimonies are justice for ever: * give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalm 118:145-160
(Coph) I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: * I will seek thy justifications.
I cried unto thee, save me: * that I may keep thy commandments.
I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: * because in thy words I very much hoped.
My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: * that I might meditate on thy words.
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2026-03-29 17:00:01 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Sunday, March 29, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * I am thine, save thou me, O Lord, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 118:81-96
(Caph) My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: * and in thy word I have very much hoped.
My eyes have failed for thy word, * saying: When wilt thou comfort me?
For I am become like a bottle in the frost: * I have not forgotten thy justifications.
How many are the days of thy servant: * when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
The wicked have told me fables: * but not as thy law.
All thy statutes are truth: * they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.
They had almost made an end of me upon earth: * but I have not forsaken thy commandments.
Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: * and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
(Lamed) For ever, O Lord, * thy word standeth firm in heaven.
Thy truth unto all generations: * thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.
By thy ordinance the day goeth on: * for all things serve thee.
Unless thy law had been my meditation, * I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
Thy justifications I will never forget: * for by them thou hast given me life.
I am thine, save thou me: * for I have sought thy justifications.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: * but I have understood thy testimonies.
I have seen an end of all perfection: * thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Psalm 118:97-112
(Mem) How have I loved thy law, O Lord! * it is my meditation all the day.
Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: * for it is ever with me.
I have understood more than all my teachers: * because thy testimonies are my meditation.
I have had understanding above ancients: * because I have sought thy commandments.
☩ Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
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2026-03-29 14:00:01 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Sunday, March 29, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * Lead me into the path of thy commandments, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 118:33-48
(He) Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: * and I will always seek after it.
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; * and I will keep it with my whole heart.
Lead me into the path of thy commandments; * for this same I have desired.
Incline my heart into thy testimonies * and not to covetousness.
Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: * quicken me in thy way.
Establish thy word to thy servant, * in thy fear.
Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: * for thy judgments are delightful.
Behold I have longed after thy precepts: * quicken me in thy justice.
(Vau) Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: * thy salvation according to thy word.
So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; * that I have trusted in thy words.
And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: * for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.
So shall I always keep thy law, * for ever and ever.
And I walked at large: * because I have sought after thy commandments.
And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: * and I was not ashamed.
I meditated also on thy commandments, * which I loved.
And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: * and I was exercised in thy justifications.
Psalm 118:49-64
(Zai) Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, * in which thou hast given me hope.
This hath comforted me in my humiliation: * because thy word hath enlivened me.
The proud did iniquitously altogether: * but I declined not from thy law.
I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: * and I was comforted.
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2026-03-29 12:00:05 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Sunday, March 29, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 117
Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.
Let Israel now say, that he is good: * that his mercy endureth for ever.
Let the house of Aaron now say, * that his mercy endureth for ever.
Let them that fear the Lord now say, * that his mercy endureth for ever.
In my trouble I called upon the Lord: * and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.
The Lord is my helper: * I will not fear what man can do unto me.
The Lord is my helper: * and I will look over my enemies.
It is good to confide in the Lord, * rather than to have confidence in man.
It is good to trust in the Lord, * rather than to trust in princes.
All nations compassed me about; * and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
Surrounding me they compassed me about: * and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
They surrounded me like bees, † and they burned like fire among thorns: * and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.
Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: * but the Lord supported me.
The Lord is my strength and my praise: * and he is become my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and of salvation * is in the tabernacles of the just.
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2026-03-29 11:00:05 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Sunday, March 29, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 92
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2026-03-29 02:00:06 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. May my request * come before thee, O Lord.
Psalm 87
Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
Let my prayer come in before thee: * incline thy ear to my petition.
For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: * I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.
Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: * and they are cast off from thy hand.
They have laid me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
Thy wrath is strong over me: * and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: * they have set me an abomination to themselves.
I was delivered up, and came not forth: * my eyes languished through poverty.
All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: * I stretched out my hands to thee.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? * or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: * and thy truth in destruction?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; * and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
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2026-03-28 23:00:06 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
℣. 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. Blessed be the Lord * my support, and my deliverer.
Psalm 143:1-8
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, * and my fingers to war.
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2026-03-28 20:00:07 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. O God, be thou not silent * for the mouth of the wicked man is opened against me.
Psalm 108:2-13
God, be not thou silent in my praise: * for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; * and have fought against me without cause.
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: * but I gave myself to prayer.
And they repaid me evil for good: * and hatred for my love.
Set thou the sinner over him: * and may the devil stand at his right hand.
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; * and may his prayer be turned to sin.
May his days be few: * and his bishopric let another take.
May his children be fatherless, * and his wife a widow.
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; * and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
May the usurer search all his substance: * and let strangers plunder his labours.
May there be none to help him: * nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
May his posterity be cut off; * in one generation may his name be blotted out.
Psalm 108:14-21
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: * and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: * because he remembered not to shew mercy,
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; * and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: * and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him.
And he put on cursing, like a garment: * and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; * and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; * and who speak evils against my soul.
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2026-03-28 17:00:06 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. O Lord, my God, * thou art exceedingly great.
Psalm 103:1-12
Bless the Lord, O my soul: * O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.
Thou hast put on praise and beauty: * and art clothed with light as with a garment.
Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: * who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water.
Who makest the clouds thy chariot: * who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
Who makest thy angels spirits: * and thy ministers a burning fire.
Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: * it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
The deep like a garment is its clothing: * above the mountains shall the waters stand.
At thy rebuke they shall flee: * at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.
The mountains ascend, and the plains descend * into the place which thou hast founded for them.
Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; * neither shall they return to cover the earth.
Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: * between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.
All the beasts of the field shall drink: * the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.
Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: * from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.
Psalm 103:13-23
Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: * the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:
Bringing forth grass for cattle, * and herb for the service of men.
That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: * and that wine may cheer the heart of man.
That he may make the face cheerful with oil: * and that bread may strengthen man’s heart.
The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: * there the sparrows shall make their nests.
The highest of them is the house of the heron. * The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.
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2026-03-28 14:00:01 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Let my cry reach unto thee, O Lord: * turn not away thy face from me.
Psalm 101:2-13
Hear, O Lord, my prayer: * and let my cry come to thee.
Turn not away thy face from me: * in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * hear me speedily.
For my days are vanished like smoke: * and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: * because I forgot to eat my bread.
Through the voice of my groaning, * my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: * I am like a night raven in the house.
I have watched, * and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
All the day long my enemies reproached me: * and they that praised me did swear against me.
For I did eat ashes like bread, * and mingled my drink with weeping.
Because of thy anger and indignation: * for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
My days have declined like a shadow, * and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: * and thy memorial to all generations.
Psalm 101:14-23
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: * for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: * and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, * and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
For the Lord hath built up Sion: * and he shall be seen in his glory.
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: * and he hath not despised their petition.
Let these things be written unto another generation: * and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
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2026-03-28 12:00:07 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Lift up thyself, O Lord, * thou that judgest the earth: render retribution to the proud.
Psalm 93:1-11
The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: * the God of revenge hath acted freely.
Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: * render a reward to the proud.
How long shall sinners, O Lord: * how long shall sinners glory?
Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: * shall all speak who work injustice?
Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: * and they have afflicted thy inheritance.
They have slain the widow and the stranger: * and they have murdered the fatherless.
And they have said: The Lord shall not see: * neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
Understand, ye senseless among the people: * and, you fools, be wise at last.
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? * or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?
He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: * he that teacheth man knowledge?
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, * that they are vain.
Psalm 93:12-23
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2026-03-28 11:00:01 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Passiontide
St. John of Capistrano, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Let the children of Sion * be joyful in their king.
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2026-03-28 02:00:03 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. I have cried * to the Lord with my voice, do not forget to show mercy, O God.
Psalm 76:2-13
I cried to the Lord with my voice; * to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, * and I was not deceived.
My soul refused to be comforted: * I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
My eyes prevented the watches: * I was troubled, and I spoke not.
I thought upon the days of old: * and I had in my mind the eternal years.
And I meditated in the night with my own heart: * and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
Will God then cast off for ever? * or will he never be more favourable again?
Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, * from generation to generation?
Or will God forget to shew mercy? * or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?
And I said, Now have I begun: * this is the change of the right hand of the most High.
I remembered the works of the Lord: * for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.
And I will meditate on all thy works: * and will be employed in thy inventions.
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2026-03-27 23:00:02 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
℣. 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.
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2026-03-27 20:00:03 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Mercy and truth * shall go before thy face, O Lord.
Psalm 88:2-19
The mercies of the Lord * I will sing for ever.
I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth * to generation and generation.
For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: * thy truth shall be prepared in them.
I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: * Thy seed will I settle for ever.
And I will build up thy throne * unto generation and generation.
The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: * and thy truth in the church of the saints.
For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: * or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: * great and terrible above all them that are about him.
O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? * thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
Thou rulest the power of the sea: * and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: * with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: * the north and the sea thou hast created.
Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: * thy arm is with might.
Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: * justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: * blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation.
They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, * and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
For thou art the glory of their strength: * and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
For our protection is of the Lord, * and of our king the holy one of Israel.
Psalm 88:20-38
Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: * I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
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2026-03-27 17:00:03 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Blessed are they * that dwell in thy house, O Lord.
Psalm 83:2-8
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! * my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh * have rejoiced in the living God.
For the sparrow hath found herself a house, * and the turtledove a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones:
Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, * my king and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: * they shall praise thee for ever and ever.
Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: * in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: * the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
Psalm 83:9-13
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: * give ear, O God of Jacob.
Behold, O God our protector: * and look on the face of thy Christ.
For better is one day in thy courts * above thousands.
I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, * rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
For God loveth mercy and truth: * the Lord will give grace and glory.
He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: * O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 86
The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: * The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of thee, * O city of God.
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon * knowing me.
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2026-03-27 14:00:02 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Stir up thy might, O Lord, * and come to save us.
Psalm 79:2-8
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: * thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, * shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.
Stir up thy might, and come * to save us.
Convert us, O God: * and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: * and give us for our drink tears in measure?
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: * and our enemies have scoffed at us.
O God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 79:9-20
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: * thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: * thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
The shadow of it covered the hills: * and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, * and its boughs unto the river.
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, * so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: * and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
Turn again, O God of hosts, * look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
Things set on fire and dug down * shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: * and we will call upon thy name.
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2026-03-27 12:00:02 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Depart not from me, * O Lord, for tribulation is very near; for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:2-12
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: * and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.
In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb.
From my mother’s womb thou art my God, * depart not from me.
For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:13-23
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2026-03-27 11:00:02 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Friday, March 27, 2026
Passiontide
St. John Damascene, Confessor
℣. 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Exalt ye the Lord * our God, and worship him upon his holy mountain.
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2026-03-27 02:00:01 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Thou art my helper * and my deliverer, O Lord.
Psalm 76:2-13
I cried to the Lord with my voice; * to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, * and I was not deceived.
My soul refused to be comforted: * I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
My eyes prevented the watches: * I was troubled, and I spoke not.
I thought upon the days of old: * and I had in my mind the eternal years.
And I meditated in the night with my own heart: * and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
Will God then cast off for ever? * or will he never be more favourable again?
Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, * from generation to generation?
Or will God forget to shew mercy? * or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?
And I said, Now have I begun: * this is the change of the right hand of the most High.
I remembered the works of the Lord: * for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.
And I will meditate on all thy works: * and will be employed in thy inventions.
Psalm 76:14-21
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2026-03-26 23:00:02 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Thursday, March 26, 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. Behold how good * and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Psalm 132
Behold how good and how pleasant it is * for brethren to dwell together in unity:
Like the precious ointment on the head, * that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron,
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2026-03-26 20:00:02 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Thursday, March 26, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. We will call * upon thy name O Lord. We will relate thy wondrous works.
Psalm 88:2-19
The mercies of the Lord * I will sing for ever.
I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth * to generation and generation.
For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: * thy truth shall be prepared in them.
I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: * Thy seed will I settle for ever.
And I will build up thy throne * unto generation and generation.
The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: * and thy truth in the church of the saints.
For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: * or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: * great and terrible above all them that are about him.
O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? * thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
Thou rulest the power of the sea: * and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: * with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: * the north and the sea thou hast created.
Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: * thy arm is with might.
Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: * justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: * blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation.
They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, * and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
For thou art the glory of their strength: * and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
For our protection is of the Lord, * and of our king the holy one of Israel.
Psalm 88:20-38
Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: * I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
I have found David my servant: * with my holy oil I have anointed him.
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2026-03-26 17:00:02 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Thursday, March 26, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Remember * thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning.
Psalm 83:2-8
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! * my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh * have rejoiced in the living God.
For the sparrow hath found herself a house, * and the turtledove a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones:
Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, * my king and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: * they shall praise thee for ever and ever.
Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: * in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: * the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
Psalm 83:9-13
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: * give ear, O God of Jacob.
Behold, O God our protector: * and look on the face of thy Christ.
For better is one day in thy courts * above thousands.
I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, * rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
For God loveth mercy and truth: * the Lord will give grace and glory.
He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: * O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 86
The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: * The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of thee, * O city of God.
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon * knowing me.
Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, * these were there.
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2026-03-26 14:00:02 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Thursday, March 26, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. How good is God * to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
Psalm 79:2-8
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: * thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, * shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.
Stir up thy might, and come * to save us.
Convert us, O God: * and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: * and give us for our drink tears in measure?
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: * and our enemies have scoffed at us.
O God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 79:9-20
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: * thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: * thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
The shadow of it covered the hills: * and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, * and its boughs unto the river.
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, * so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: * and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
Turn again, O God of hosts, * look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
Things set on fire and dug down * shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: * and we will call upon thy name.
O Lord God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
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2026-03-26 12:00:02 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Thursday, March 26, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The Lord hath set me * in a place of pasture.
Psalm 21:2-12
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: * and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.
In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb.
From my mother’s womb thou art my God, * depart not from me.
For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:13-23
Many calves have surrounded me: * fat bulls have besieged me.
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2026-03-26 11:00:02 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Thursday, March 26, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Make a joyful noise * before the Lord our King.
Psalm 97
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2026-03-26 02:00:04 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The angel of the Lord * shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.
Psalm 33:2-11
I will bless the Lord at all times, * his praise shall be always in my mouth.
In the Lord shall my soul be praised: * let the meek hear and rejoice.
O magnify the Lord with me; * and let us extol his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me; * and he delivered me from all my troubles.
Come ye to him and be enlightened: * and your faces shall not be confounded.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: * and saved him out of all his troubles.
The Angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: * and shall deliver them.
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: * blessed is the man that hopeth in him.
Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: * for there is no want to them that fear him.
The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: * but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.
Psalm 33:12-23
Come, children, hearken to me: * I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
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2026-03-25 23:00:03 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Wednesday, March 25, 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. Blessed are all * they that fear the Lord.
Psalm 127
Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: * that walk in his ways.
For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: * blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
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2026-03-25 20:00:03 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Wednesday, March 25, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. My God, * his mercy shall prevent me.
Psalm 58:2-11
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; * and defend me from them that rise up against me.
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, * and save me from bloody men.
For behold they have caught my soul: * the mighty have rushed in upon me:
Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: * without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: * even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel.
Attend to visit all the nations: * have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.
They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: * for who, say they, hath heard us?
But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: * thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector: * my God, his mercy shall prevent me.
Psalm 58:12-18
God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, * lest at any time my people forget.
And scatter them by thy power; * and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: * and let them be taken in their pride.
And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, when they are consumed: * when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more.
And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, * and all the ends of the earth.
They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, * and shall murmur if they be not filled.
But I will sing thy strength: * and will extol thy mercy in the morning.
For thou art become my support, * and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.
Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: * my God my mercy.
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2026-03-25 17:00:04 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Wednesday, March 25, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. In God I have put my trust * I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
Psalm 55
Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; * all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.
My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; * for they are many that make war against me.
From the height of the day I shall fear: * but I will trust in thee.
In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: * I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
All the day long they detested my words: * all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
They will dwell and hide themselves: * they will watch my heel.
As they have waited for my soul, for nothing shalt thou save them: * in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces.
O God, I have declared to thee my life: * thou hast set my tears in thy sight,
As also in thy promise. * Then shall my enemies be turned back.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * behold I know thou art my God.
In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. * In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.
In me, O God, are vows to thee, * which I will pay, praises to thee:
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: * that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.
Psalm 56
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: * for my soul trusteth in thee.
And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, * until iniquity pass away.
I will cry to God the most High; * to God who hath done good to me.
He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: * he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me.
God hath sent his mercy and his truth, * and he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled.
The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, * and their tongue a sharp sword.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, * and thy glory above all the earth.
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2026-03-25 14:00:05 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Wednesday, March 25, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
Psalm 53
Save me, O God, by thy name, * and judge me in thy strength.
O God, hear my prayer: * give ear to the words of my mouth.
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: * and they have not set God before their eyes.
For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
Turn back the evils upon my enemies; * and cut them off in thy truth.
I will freely sacrifice to thee, * and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:
For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: * and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.
Psalm 54:2-16
Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: * be attentive to me and hear me.
I am grieved in my exercise; * and am troubled, at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner.
For they have cast iniquities upon me; * and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
My heart is troubled within me: * and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
Fear and trembling are come upon me: * and darkness hath covered me.
And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, * and I will fly and be at rest?
Lo, I have gone far off flying away; * and I abode in the wilderness.
I waited for him that hath saved me * from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; * for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: * and in the midst thereof are labour, and injustice.
And usury and deceit * have not departed from its streets.
For if my enemy had reviled me, * I would verily have borne with it.
And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, * I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.
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2026-03-25 12:00:03 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Wednesday, March 25, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. For thy mercy, * O Lord, is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.
Psalm 25
Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: * and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; * burn my reins and my heart.
For thy mercy is before my eyes; * and I am well pleased with thy truth.
I have not sat with the council of vanity: * neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.
I have hated the assembly of the malignant; * and with the wicked I will not sit.
I will wash my hands among the innocent; * and will compass thy altar, O Lord:
That I may hear the voice of thy praise: * and tell of all thy wondrous works.
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; * and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: * nor my life with bloody men:
In whose hands are iniquities: * their right hand is filled with gifts.
But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: * redeem me, and have mercy on me.
My foot hath stood in the direct way: * in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.
Psalm 51
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2026-03-25 11:00:03 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Wednesday, March 25, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The Lord hath reigned * let the earth rejoice.
Psalm 96
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2026-03-25 02:00:03 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Passiontide
St. Gabriel the Archangel
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Thou, O Lord, * wilt preserve us: and keep us for ever.
Psalm 11
Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: * truths are decayed from among the children of men.
They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: * with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, * and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; † our lips are our own; * who is Lord over us?
By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, * now will I arise, saith the Lord.
I will set him in safety; * I will deal confidently in his regard.
The words of the Lord are pure words: * as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us * from this generation for ever.
The wicked walk round about: * according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.
Psalm 12
How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? * how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
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2026-03-24 23:00:03 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Passiontide
St. Gabriel the Archangel
℣. 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. Thou who dwellest in heaven, * have mercy on us.
Psalm 122
To thee have I lifted up my eyes, * who dwellest in heaven.
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2026-03-24 20:00:05 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Passiontide
St. Gabriel the Archangel
℣. 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Thou hast saved us, O Lord, * and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
Psalm 43:2-9
We have heard, O God, with our ears: * our fathers have declared to us,
The work thou hast wrought in their days, * and in the days of old.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: * thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: * neither did their own arm save them.
But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: * because thou wast pleased with them.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, * who commandest the saving of Jacob.
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: * and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow: * neither shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: * and hast put them to shame that hate us.
In God shall we glory all the day long: * and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
Psalm 43:10-20
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: * and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: * and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: * thou hast scattered us among the nations.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: * and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, * a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: * a shaking of the head among the people.
All the day long my shame is before me: * and the confusion of my face hath covered me.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: * at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: * and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
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2026-03-23 17:00:06 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Monday, March 23, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Deliver me * in thy justice, O Lord.
Psalm 40
Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: * the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: * and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: * thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: * heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
My enemies have spoken evils against me: * when shall he die and his name perish?
And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: * his heart gathered together iniquity to itself.
He went out * and spoke to the same purpose.
All my enemies whispered together against me: * they devised evils to me.
They determined against me an unjust word: * shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, * who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: * and I will requite them.
By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: * because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: * and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. * So be it. So be it.
Psalm 41:2-6
As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; * so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; * when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
My tears have been my bread day and night, * whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?
These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: * for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God:
With the voice of joy and praise; * the noise of one feasting.
Why art thou sad, O my soul? * and why dost thou trouble me?
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2026-03-23 12:00:05 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Monday, March 23, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. The innocent in hands * and clean of heart shall ascend the mountain of the Lord.
Psalm 24:1-7
To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: * In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: * for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
Let all them be confounded that act unjust things * without cause.
Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, * and teach me thy paths.
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; * for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; * and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
The sins of my youth * and my ignorances do not remember.
According to thy mercy remember thou me: * for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
Psalm 24:8-14
The Lord is sweet and righteous: * therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.
He will guide the mild in judgment: * he will teach the meek his ways.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, * to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.
For thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: * for it is great.
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2026-03-23 11:00:03 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Monday, March 23, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. All ye nations * shout unto God with the voice of joy.
Psalm 46
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2026-03-23 02:00:06 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Passiontide
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Have mercy * on me, O Lord, and hear my prayer.
Psalm 4
When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: * when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me.
Have mercy on me: * and hear my prayer.
O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? * Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?
Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: * the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.
Be ye angry, and sin not: ‡ the things you say in your hearts, * be sorry for them upon your beds.
Offer up the sacrifice of justice, † and trust in the Lord: * many say, Who sheweth us good things?
The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: * thou hast given gladness in my heart.
By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, * they are multiplied.
In peace in the selfsame * I will sleep, and I will rest:
For thou, O Lord, singularly * hast settled me in hope.
Psalm 90
He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, * shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
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2026-03-22 23:00:08 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Sunday, March 22, 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. The Lord said to my Lord: * Sit thou at my right hand.
Psalm 109
The Lord said to my Lord: * Sit thou at my right hand:
Until I make thy enemies * thy footstool.
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2026-03-22 20:00:05 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Sunday, March 22, 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * make thy face to shine upon thy servant, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 118:129-144
(Phe) Thy testimonies are wonderful: * therefore my soul hath sought them.
The declaration of thy words giveth light: * and giveth understanding to little ones.
I opened my mouth, and panted: * because I longed for thy commandments.
Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me, * according to the judgment of them that love thy name.
Direct my steps according to thy word: * and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
Redeem me from the calumnies of men: * that I may keep thy commandments.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: * and teach me thy justifications.
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: * because they have not kept thy law.
(Sade) Thou art just, O Lord: * and thy judgment is right.
Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: * and thy truth exceedingly.
My zeal hath made me pine away: * because my enemies forgot thy words.
Thy word is exceedingly refined: * and thy servant hath loved it.
I am very young and despised; but * I forget not thy justifications.
Thy justice is justice for ever: * and thy law is the truth.
Trouble and anguish have found me: * thy commandments are my meditation.
Thy testimonies are justice for ever: * give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalm 118:145-160
(Coph) I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: * I will seek thy justifications.
I cried unto thee, save me: * that I may keep thy commandments.
I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: * because in thy words I very much hoped.
My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: * that I might meditate on thy words.
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2026-03-22 17:00:05 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Sunday, March 22, 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * I am thine, save thou me, O Lord, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 118:81-96
(Caph) My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: * and in thy word I have very much hoped.
My eyes have failed for thy word, * saying: When wilt thou comfort me?
For I am become like a bottle in the frost: * I have not forgotten thy justifications.
How many are the days of thy servant: * when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
The wicked have told me fables: * but not as thy law.
All thy statutes are truth: * they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.
They had almost made an end of me upon earth: * but I have not forsaken thy commandments.
Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: * and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
(Lamed) For ever, O Lord, * thy word standeth firm in heaven.
Thy truth unto all generations: * thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.
By thy ordinance the day goeth on: * for all things serve thee.
Unless thy law had been my meditation, * I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
Thy justifications I will never forget: * for by them thou hast given me life.
I am thine, save thou me: * for I have sought thy justifications.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: * but I have understood thy testimonies.
I have seen an end of all perfection: * thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Psalm 118:97-112
(Mem) How have I loved thy law, O Lord! * it is my meditation all the day.
Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: * for it is ever with me.
I have understood more than all my teachers: * because thy testimonies are my meditation.
I have had understanding above ancients: * because I have sought thy commandments.
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2026-03-22 14:00:01 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Sunday, March 22, 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * Lead me into the path of thy commandments, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 118:33-48
(He) Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: * and I will always seek after it.
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; * and I will keep it with my whole heart.
Lead me into the path of thy commandments; * for this same I have desired.
Incline my heart into thy testimonies * and not to covetousness.
Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: * quicken me in thy way.
Establish thy word to thy servant, * in thy fear.
Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: * for thy judgments are delightful.
Behold I have longed after thy precepts: * quicken me in thy justice.
(Vau) Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: * thy salvation according to thy word.
So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; * that I have trusted in thy words.
And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: * for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.
So shall I always keep thy law, * for ever and ever.
And I walked at large: * because I have sought after thy commandments.
And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: * and I was not ashamed.
I meditated also on thy commandments, * which I loved.
And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: * and I was exercised in thy justifications.
Psalm 118:49-64
(Zai) Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, * in which thou hast given me hope.
This hath comforted me in my humiliation: * because thy word hath enlivened me.
The proud did iniquitously altogether: * but I declined not from thy law.
I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: * and I was comforted.
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2026-03-22 12:00:05 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Sunday, March 22, 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 117
Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: * for his mercy endureth for ever.
Let Israel now say, that he is good: * that his mercy endureth for ever.
Let the house of Aaron now say, * that his mercy endureth for ever.
Let them that fear the Lord now say, * that his mercy endureth for ever.
In my trouble I called upon the Lord: * and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.
The Lord is my helper: * I will not fear what man can do unto me.
The Lord is my helper: * and I will look over my enemies.
It is good to confide in the Lord, * rather than to have confidence in man.
It is good to trust in the Lord, * rather than to trust in princes.
All nations compassed me about; * and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
Surrounding me they compassed me about: * and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
They surrounded me like bees, † and they burned like fire among thorns: * and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.
Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: * but the Lord supported me.
The Lord is my strength and my praise: * and he is become my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and of salvation * is in the tabernacles of the just.
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2026-03-22 11:00:04 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Sunday, March 22, 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 ──
Thirty years among us dwelling,
His appointed time fulfilled,
Born for this, he meets his passion,
For that this he freely willed:
On the cross the Lamb is lifted,
Where his life-blood shall be spilled.
He endured the nails, the spitting,
Vinegar, and spear, and reed;
From that holy body broken
Blood and water forth proceed:
Earth, and stars, and sky, and ocean,
By that flood from stain are free.
Faithful cross! above all other,
One and only noble tree!
None in foliage, none in blossom,
None in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron!
Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Bend thy boughs, O tree of glory!
Thy relaxing sinews bend;
For awhile the ancient rigour,
That thy birth bestowed, suspend;
And the King of heavenly beauty
On thy bosom gently tend!
Thou alone wast counted worthy
This world's ransom to uphold;
For a shipwrecked race preparing
Harbour, like the ark of old;
With the sacred blood anointed
From the smitten Lamb that rolled.
To the Trinity be glory
Everlasting, as is meet;
Equal to the Father, equal
To the Son, and Paraclete:
Trinal Unity, whose praises
All created things repeat.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Alleluia, * The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty, alleluia, alleluia.
Psalm 92
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2026-03-22 02:00:09 UTC

Compline — Night Prayer
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
── Short Lesson ──
[1 Pet 5:8-9]
Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith.
℣. Turn us then, ✠ O God, our saviour.
℟. And let thy anger cease from us.
℣. 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 ──
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray
That with thy wonted favor thou
Wouldst be our guard and keeper now.
From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
From nightly fears and fantasies;
Tread under foot our ghostly foe,
That no pollution we may know.
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. May my request * come before thee, O Lord.
Psalm 87
Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
Let my prayer come in before thee: * incline thy ear to my petition.
For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: * I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.
Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: * and they are cast off from thy hand.
They have laid me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
Thy wrath is strong over me: * and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: * they have set me an abomination to themselves.
I was delivered up, and came not forth: * my eyes languished through poverty.
All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: * I stretched out my hands to thee.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? * or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: * and thy truth in destruction?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; * and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
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2026-03-21 23:00:04 UTC

Vespers — Evening Prayer
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
℣. 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 ──
O kind Creator, bow thine ear
To mark the cry, to know the tear
Before thy throne of mercy spent
In this thy holy fast of Lent.
Our hearts are open, Lord, to thee:
Thou knowest our infirmity;
Pour out on all who seek thy face
Abundance of thy pardoning grace.
Our sins are many, this we know;
Spare us, good Lord, thy mercy show;
And for the honour of thy name
Our fainting souls to life reclaim.
Give us the self-control that springs
From discipline of outward things,
That fasting inward secretly
The soul may purely dwell with thee.
We pray thee, Holy Trinity,
One God, unchanging Unity,
That we from this our abstinence
May reap the fruits of penitence.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Blessed be the Lord * my support, and my deliverer.
Psalm 143:1-8
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, * and my fingers to war.
My mercy, and my refuge: * my support, and my deliverer:
My protector, and I have hoped in him: * who subdueth my people under me.
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? * or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Man is like to vanity: * his days pass away like a shadow.
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: * touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: * shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: * from the hand of strange children:
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: * and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
℣. 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.
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2026-03-21 20:00:02 UTC

None — Ninth Hour
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
℣. 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 ──
O strength and stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide:
Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. O God, be thou not silent * for the mouth of the wicked man is opened against me.
Psalm 108:2-13
God, be not thou silent in my praise: * for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; * and have fought against me without cause.
Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: * but I gave myself to prayer.
And they repaid me evil for good: * and hatred for my love.
Set thou the sinner over him: * and may the devil stand at his right hand.
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; * and may his prayer be turned to sin.
May his days be few: * and his bishopric let another take.
May his children be fatherless, * and his wife a widow.
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; * and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
May the usurer search all his substance: * and let strangers plunder his labours.
May there be none to help him: * nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
May his posterity be cut off; * in one generation may his name be blotted out.
Psalm 108:14-21
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: * and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: * because he remembered not to shew mercy,
But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; * and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: * and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him.
And he put on cursing, like a garment: * and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; * and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; * and who speak evils against my soul.
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2026-03-21 17:00:04 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
℣. 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. O Lord, my God, * thou art exceedingly great.
Psalm 103:1-12
Bless the Lord, O my soul: * O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great.
Thou hast put on praise and beauty: * and art clothed with light as with a garment.
Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: * who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water.
Who makest the clouds thy chariot: * who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
Who makest thy angels spirits: * and thy ministers a burning fire.
Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: * it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
The deep like a garment is its clothing: * above the mountains shall the waters stand.
At thy rebuke they shall flee: * at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.
The mountains ascend, and the plains descend * into the place which thou hast founded for them.
Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; * neither shall they return to cover the earth.
Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: * between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.
All the beasts of the field shall drink: * the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.
Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: * from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.
Psalm 103:13-23
Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: * the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:
Bringing forth grass for cattle, * and herb for the service of men.
That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: * and that wine may cheer the heart of man.
That he may make the face cheerful with oil: * and that bread may strengthen man’s heart.
The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: * there the sparrows shall make their nests.
The highest of them is the house of the heron. * The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.
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2026-03-21 14:00:05 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
℣. 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Let my cry reach unto thee, O Lord: * turn not away thy face from me.
Psalm 101:2-13
Hear, O Lord, my prayer: * and let my cry come to thee.
Turn not away thy face from me: * in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee, * hear me speedily.
For my days are vanished like smoke: * and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: * because I forgot to eat my bread.
Through the voice of my groaning, * my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: * I am like a night raven in the house.
I have watched, * and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
All the day long my enemies reproached me: * and they that praised me did swear against me.
For I did eat ashes like bread, * and mingled my drink with weeping.
Because of thy anger and indignation: * for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
My days have declined like a shadow, * and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: * and thy memorial to all generations.
Psalm 101:14-23
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: * for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: * and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, * and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
For the Lord hath built up Sion: * and he shall be seen in his glory.
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: * and he hath not despised their petition.
Let these things be written unto another generation: * and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
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2026-03-21 12:00:02 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
℣. 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Lift up thyself, O Lord, * thou that judgest the earth: render retribution to the proud.
Psalm 93:1-11
The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: * the God of revenge hath acted freely.
Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: * render a reward to the proud.
How long shall sinners, O Lord: * how long shall sinners glory?
Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: * shall all speak who work injustice?
Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: * and they have afflicted thy inheritance.
They have slain the widow and the stranger: * and they have murdered the fatherless.
And they have said: The Lord shall not see: * neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
Understand, ye senseless among the people: * and, you fools, be wise at last.
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? * or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?
He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: * he that teacheth man knowledge?
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, * that they are vain.
Psalm 93:12-23
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2026-03-21 11:00:05 UTC

Lauds — Morning Prayer
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Lent
St. Benedict, Abbot
℣. 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 ──
Jesu, salvation’s Sun Divine,
Within our inmost bosoms shine,
With light all darkness drive away
And give the world a better day.
Now days of grace with mercy flow,
O Lord, the gift of tears bestow,
To wash our stains in every part,
Whilst heavenly fire consumes the heart.
Rise, crystal tears, from that same source
From whence our sins derive their course;
Nor cease, till hardened hearts relent,
And softened by your streams, repent.
Behold, the happy days return,
The days of joy for them that mourn;
May we of their indulgence share,
And bless the God that grants our prayer.
May heaven and earth aloud proclaim
The Trinity’s almighty fame;
And we, restored to grace, rejoice
In newness both of heart and voice.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Let the children of Sion * be joyful in their king.
Psalm 149
Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: * let his praise be in the church of the saints.
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: * and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.
Let them praise his name in choir: * let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.
For the Lord is well pleased with his people: * and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.
The saints shall rejoice in glory: * they shall be joyful in their beds.
The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: * and two-edged swords in their hands:
To execute vengeance upon the nations, * chastisements among the people:
To bind their kings with fetters, * and their nobles with manacles of iron.
To execute upon them the judgment that is written: * this glory is to all his saints.
℣. 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.
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2026-03-20 17:00:04 UTC

Sext — Sixth Hour
Friday, March 20, 2026
Lent
℣. 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 ──
O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Who send’st the early morning ray,
And light’st the glow of perfect day:
Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;
And while thou keep’st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Blessed are they * that dwell in thy house, O Lord.
Psalm 83:2-8
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! * my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh * have rejoiced in the living God.
For the sparrow hath found herself a house, * and the turtledove a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones:
Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, * my king and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: * they shall praise thee for ever and ever.
Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: * in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: * the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
Psalm 83:9-13
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: * give ear, O God of Jacob.
Behold, O God our protector: * and look on the face of thy Christ.
For better is one day in thy courts * above thousands.
I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, * rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
For God loveth mercy and truth: * the Lord will give grace and glory.
He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: * O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 86
The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains: * The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of thee, * O city of God.
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon * knowing me.
Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, * these were there.
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2026-03-20 14:00:01 UTC

Terce — Third Hour
Friday, March 20, 2026
Lent
℣. 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 ──
Come Holy Ghost who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son,
It is the hour, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.
Let flesh and heart and lips and mind
Sound forth our witness to mankind;
And love light up our mortal frame,
Till others catch the living flame.
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord most High,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Stir up thy might, O Lord, * and come to save us.
Psalm 79:2-8
Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: * thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, * shine forth before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.
Stir up thy might, and come * to save us.
Convert us, O God: * and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
O Lord God of hosts, * how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: * and give us for our drink tears in measure?
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: * and our enemies have scoffed at us.
O God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 79:9-20
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: * thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: * thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
The shadow of it covered the hills: * and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, * and its boughs unto the river.
Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, * so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: * and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
Turn again, O God of hosts, * look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
Things set on fire and dug down * shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: * and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: * and we will call upon thy name.
O Lord God of hosts, convert us: * and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
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2026-03-20 12:00:04 UTC

Prime — First Hour
Friday, March 20, 2026
Lent
℣. 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 ──
Now in the sun's new dawning ray,
Lowly of heart, our God we pray
That he from harm may keep us free
In all the deeds this day shall see.
May fear of him our tongues restrain,
Lest strife unguarded speech should stain:
His favouring care our guardian be,
Lest our eyes feed on vanity.
May every heart be pure from sin
And folly find no place therein:
Scant need of food, excess denied,
Wear down in us the body's pride.
That when the light of day is gone,
And night in course shall follow on.
We, free from cares the world affords,
May chant the praise that is our Lord's.
All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, Eternal Son, to thee:
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the holy Paraclete.
Amen.
── Psalms ──
Ant. Depart not from me, * O Lord, for tribulation is very near; for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:2-12
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: * and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.
In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb.
From my mother’s womb thou art my God, * depart not from me.
For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.
Psalm 21:13-23
Many calves have surrounded me: * fat bulls have besieged me.
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