Liturgy of the Hours
Night Prayer
Night Prayer after Evening Prayer I
for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
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Call to Worship
While making the sign of the cross:
God, come to our assistance.
Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory to the Father and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning,
is now and will be forever.
Amen. Alleluia!
Examination of Conscience
As we come to the end of our day, we give thanks and praise to our Lord for His grace and mercy.
Pause and make a brief examination of conscience.
Kyrie
Kyrie eleison.
Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison.
Kyrie eleison. (1)
Hymn
Now the Green Blade Rises (2)
Now the green blade rises from the buried grain.
Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
In the grave they laid him, love by hatred slain.
Thinking that he would never wake again.
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
Forth he came at Easter, like the rising grain.
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
When our hearts are wintry, grieving or in pain.
Your touch can call us back to life again.
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
Psalm 4
Ant. Alleulia! Alleulia! Alleulia!
Answer when I call, faithful God.
You cleared away my trouble.
Be good to me; listen to my prayer.
How long, proud fools,
Will you insult my honor,
Loving lies and chasing shadows?
Look! God astounds believers,
The Lord listens when I call.
Tremble, but do not despair.
Attend to your heart,
Be calm through the night,
Worship with integrity; trust in the Lord.
Cynics ask, “Who will bless us? Even God has turned away.”
You give my heart more joy than all their grain and wine.
I sleep secure at night,
You keep me in your care.
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning
is now and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. Alleulia! Alleulia! Alleulia!
Psalm 134
Ant. Alleulia! Alleulia! Alleulia!
Bless the Lord,
All who serve in God’s house,
Who stand watch
Throughout the night.
Lift up your hands in the holy place
And bless the Lord.
And may God, the maker of earth and sky,
Bless you from Zion.
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning
is now and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. Alleulia! Alleulia! Alleulia!
Reading
A Reading from the Book of Deuteronomy
(Deut. 6:4-7)
Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Take a few moments to reflect on the reading.
Responsory
Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit, Alleluia, Alleluia!
You have redeemed us, Lord God of truth,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit, Alleluia, Alleluia!
Gospel Canticle
Canticle of Simeon
Ant. Protect us, Lord,
as we stay awake;
watch over us as we sleep,
that awake,
we may keep watch with Christ,
and asleep, rest in his peace. Alleluia!
Luke 2: 29-32
While making the sign of the cross:
Lord, now you let your servant
go in peace;
Your word has been fulfilled:
My own eyes have seen
the salvation
Which you have prepared in the sight of every people:
a light to reveal you to the nations
and the glory of your people Israel.
Glory to the Father and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning,
Is now and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. Protect us, Lord,
as we stay awake;
watch over us as we sleep,
that awake,
we may keep watch with Christ,
and asleep, rest in his peace. Alleluia!
Closing Prayer
Lord,
Be with us throughout this night.
When day comes, may we rise from sleep
to rejoice in the resurrection of your Christ,
who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Amen.
Blessing
While making the sign of the cross:
May the all-powerful Lord grant us a restful night
and a peaceful death.
Amen.
Be Joyful, Mary (3)
Be joyful, Mary, heav’nly queen,
Gaude, Maria:
Your Son who died was living seen,
Alleluia, Laetare, O Maria.
The Son you bore by heaven’s grace,
Gaude Maria:
Did all our guilt and sin efface,
Alleluia, Laetare, O Maria.
The Lord has risen from the dead,
Gaude, Maria:
He rose with might, as he had said,
Alleluia, Laetare, O Maria.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Pray for us.
Saint Joseph,
Pray for us.
Sant’Angelo,
Pray for us.
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Text and Music: From ‘Mass of Renewal:’
Curtis Stephan, b. 1973,
copyright 2009.
Vocals: The Carmelites.Text: ‘Now the green blade riseth’ by JMC Crum, 1872-1958, [alt.]. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.
Vocals: NickRitacco
Piano: Benjamín Aguilar, O.Carm.Lyrics: Regina Caeli, jubila; Latin, 17th cent., translation (anonymous) in Psalite, alt.
Music: REGINA CAELI; Johann Leisentritt’s iCatholicum Hymnologium, 1584; acc. Copyright 1995, 1997.
Vocals: Anna May Rudolph.