Lauds, Morning Prayer for the 13th Thursday in Ordinary Time, July 3, 2025.
Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle.

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Domine Labia Mea Aperies – "O Lord Open my lips"
Invitatory Psalm 95 (Tone VIIIG, arranged with harmony by StH)
Hymn: "Qui Luce Splendes Ordinis," Liber Hymnarius, Solesmes, 1983, p. 394
Psalm 63v2-9 (tone VIIIG; Antiphonale Romanum I, pg 413, Solesmes, 2019)
Canticle: Daniel 3v57-88, 56 (mode VIII, arranged by StH)
Psalm 148 (Tone VIIIG, antiphon adapted from the Gregorian by Sing the Hours from the proper, "Mite manum tuam," Antiphonale Romanum I, pg 414 "" "")
Reading: Ephesians 2v19-20
Responsory – You have made them rules, over all the earth. (music composed by StH)
Benedictus – Luke 1:68-79 (English, tone VIIIG, antiphon adapted from "" "", "Quia Vidisti Me," "" "")
Intercessions
Pater Noster (Antiphonale Romanum II, pg.638, Solesmes, 2019)
Collect and Conclusion
Ora Pro Nobos Sancta Dei Genetrix – "Pray for us O Holy Mother of God"

The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes), ©1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Readings and Old and New Testament Canticles (except the Gospel Canticles) are from the New American Bible © 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C.