Vespers at 6 P.M.

Vespers:

V. O Lady, make speed to befriend me.

R. From the hands of the enemy mightily defend me.

V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:

R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

Hymn

Hail, dial of Achaz!

On thee the true Sun

Told backward the course

Which from old He had run!

And, that man might be raised,

Submitting to shame,

A little more low

Than the angels become.

Thou, wrapt in the blaze

Of His infinite light,

Dost shine as the morn

On the confines of night;

As the moon on the lost

Through obscurity dawns;

The serpent's destroyer!

A lily mid thorns! Amen.

V. I made an unfailing light to arise in heaven.

R. And as a midst I overspread the whole earth.

V. O Lady, hear my prayer.

R. And let my cry come unto thee.

Let Us Pray

Holy Mary, Queen of heaven, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Mistress of the world, who forsakest no one, and despisest no one; look upon me, O Lady, with an eye of pity, and entreat for me, of thy beloved Son the forgiveness of all my sins; that, as I now celebrate with devout affection thy holy and Immaculate Conception, so hereafter I may receive the prize of eternal blessedness, by the grace of Him Whom thou, a virgin, didst bring forth, Jesus Christ our Lord; Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, in perfect Trinity, God, world without end. Amen.

V. O Lady, hear my prayer.

 

R. And let my cry come unto thee.

V. Let us bless the Lord.

R. Thanks be to God.

V. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

R. Amen.