Divine Office – Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary)

Evening Prayer – Memorial

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Liturgy of the Hours Vol. IV:
Ordinary: 632
Psalter: Thursday, Week IV, 1188
Common of One Martyr: 1735 (reading)
Proper of Saints: 1493 (concluding prayer)

Christian Prayer (single volume)

Ordinary: 694
Psalter: Thursday, Week IV, 973
Common of One Martyr: 1420 (reading)
Proper of Saints: 1292 (concluding prayer)

Evening Prayer for Thursday in Ordinary Time, the Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

God, come to my assistance.

— Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

HYMN

O God, the crown and great reward

Of all your soldiers brave and true,
Absolve us from all bonds of sin
Who sing your loyal martyr's praise.

He spoke up fearlessly to prove

The steadfast faith deep in his heart,
So closely following our Lord
Like him, he gladly shed his blood.

Despising all the world could give

Its pleasures which can lead to harm,
Quite rightly counting them as dross,
He chose full happiness above.

With strength and courage he endured

The horrors of a cruel death,
And gave his life with joy to prove
His love for you, and life to gain.

Because of his great constancy,

We humbly beg, O Father kind,
On this your martyr's festal day,
Forgive our failing and our falls.

That we at last may also share

All martyrs' company on high,
Rejoicing with them evermore,
Enthroned with them in realms of light.

All praise and glory without end

Be yours, O Father, with the Son,
And with the Holy Spirit, too,
In time and in eternity. Amen.

𝄞"O God, the Crown and Great Reward - for him" by Kathleen Lundquist, Sara Faux • Title: O God, the Crown and Great Reward; Text: Deus, tuorum militum, 5th-7th c.; Tr. the Benedictines of Saint Cecilia’s Abbey, Ryde, UK; Tune: Chant, Mode VIII; Liber Hymnarius; Artist: Kathleen Lundquist; Recording copyright 2016 by Surgeworks, Inc.

PSALMODY

Ant. 1 He is my comfort and my refuge. In him I put my trust.

Psalm 144

Prayer for victory and peace
Christ learned the art of warfare when he overcame the world, as he said: “I have overcome the world” (Saint Hilary).

I

Blessed be the Lord, my rock

who trains my arms for battle,
who prepares my hands for war.

He is my love, my fortress;

he is my stronghold, my savior,
my shield, my place of refuge.
He brings peoples under my rule.

Lord, what is man that you care for him,

mortal man, that you keep him in mind;
man, who is merely a breath
whose life fades like a shadow?

Lower your heavens and come down;

touch the mountains; wreathe them in smoke.
Flash your lightnings; rout the foe,
shoot your arrows and put them to flight.

Reach down from heaven and save me;

draw me out from the mighty waters,
from the hands of alien foes
whose mouths are filled with lies,
whose hands are raised in perjury.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Ant. He is my comfort and my refuge. In him I put my trust.

Ant. 2 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

II

To you, O God, will I sing a new song;

I will play on the ten-stringed harp
to you who give kings their victory,
who set David your servant free.

You set him free from the evil sword;

you rescued him from alien foes
whose mouths were filled with lies,
whose hands were raised in perjury.

Let our sons then flourish like saplings

grown tall and strong from their youth:
our daughters graceful as columns,
adorned as though for a palace.

Let our barns be filled to overflowing

with crops of every kind;
our sheep increasing by thousands,
myriads of sheep in our fields,
our cattle heavy with young,

no ruined wall, no exile,

no sound of weeping in our streets.
Happy the people with such blessings;
happy the people whose God is the Lord.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Psalm-prayer

Lord, God of strength, you gave your Son victory over death. Direct your Church’s fight against evil in this world. Clothe us with the weapons of light and unite us under one banner of love, that we may receive our eternal reward after the battle of earthly life.

Ant. Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

Ant. 3 Now the victorious reign of our God has begun.

Canticle – Revelation 11:17-18; 12:10b-12a

The judgment of God

We praise you, the Lord God Almighty,

who is and who was.
You have assumed your great power,
you have begun your reign.

The nations have raged in anger,

but then came your day of wrath
and the moment to judge the dead:
The time to reward your servants the prophets
and the holy ones who revere you,
the great and the small alike.

Now have salvation and power come,

the reign of our God and the authority
of his Anointed One.
For the accuser of our brothers is cast out,
who night and day accused them before God.

They defeated him by the blood of the Lamb

and by the word of their testimony;
love for life did not deter them from death.
So rejoice, you heavens,
and you that dwell therein!

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Ant. Now the victorious reign of our God has begun.

READING 1 Peter 4:13-14

Dearly beloved, rejoice in the measure that you share Christ’s sufferings. When his glory is revealed, you will rejoice exultantly. Happy are you when you are insulted for the sake of Christ, for then God’s Spirit in its glory has come to rest on you.

Sacred Silence (indicated by a bell)

A moment to reflect and receive in our hearts the full resonance of the voice of the Holy Spirit and to unite our personal prayer more closely with the word of God and public voice of the Church.

RESPONSORY

You have tried us by fire, O God, then led us to a place of refreshment.

— You have tried us by fire, O God, then led us to a place of refreshment.

You refined us as silver in the furnace,

— then led us to a place of refreshment.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,

— You have tried us by fire, O God, then led us to a place of refreshment.

CANTICLE OF MARY

Ant. I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ, born of David’s seed; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of his unending love.

Luke 1:46-55

The soul rejoices in the Lord

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,

my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed:

the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.

He has mercy on those who fear him

in every generation.

He has shown the strength of his arm,

he has scattered the proud in their conceit.

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,

and has lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things,

and the rich he has sent away empty.

He has come to the help of his servant Israel

for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.

Ant. I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ, born of David’s seed; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of his unending love.

INTERCESSIONS

This is the hour when the King of martyrs offered his life in the upper room and laid it down on the cross. Let us thank him and say:

We praise you, O Lord.

We praise you, O Lord, our Savior, inspiration and example for every martyr, for loving us to the end:

We praise you, O Lord.

For calling all repentant sinners to the rewards of life:

We praise you, O Lord.

For entrusting to your Church the blood of the new and everlasting covenant poured out for the remission of sin:

We praise you, O Lord.

For our perseverance in your grace today:

We praise you, O Lord.

For incorporating our dead brothers and sisters into your own death today:

We praise you, O Lord.

Our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Concluding Prayer

Almighty ever-living God,

who adorn the sacred body of your Church
with the confessions of holy Martyrs,
grant, we pray, that,
just as the glorious passion of Saint Ignatius of Antioch,
which we celebrate today,
brought him eternal splendor,
so it may be for us unending protection.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
— Amen.

DISMISSAL

May the Lord bless us,

protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life.
— Amen.

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