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Prayers for all Occasions, Needs, and Intentions
PRAYERS - THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS
The Church's full cycle of daily Prayer
The Prayers for our Beloved Dead may be used on the Feast of All Souls and anytime to reflect on the mystery of death especially the death of a relative or friend.
OUR DEAD EVENING PRAYER
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Evening
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Introduction |
| Doxology |
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Psalmody |
| Antiphon 1 |
| Psalm |
| Antiphon 3 |
| NT Canticle |
| Antiphon 4 |
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Conclusion |
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OUR BELOVED DEAD
Evening Prayer
Introduction
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 forever. Amen. Alleluia.
Psalmody
The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will guard your soul.
I
lift up my eyes to the mountains: from where shall come my help? My help
shall come from the Lord who made heaven and earth.
May
he never allow you to stumble! Let him sleep not, your guard. No, he
sleeps not nor slumbers, Israel’s guard.
The
Lord is your guard and your shade; at your right side he stands. By day
the sun shall not smite you nor the moon in the night.
The Lord will guard you from evil, he will guard your soul. The Lord will guard your going and coming both now and forever.
For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who
thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, 0 Jesus, be for ever blest:
Alleluia,
alleluia!
Thou
wast their rock, their fortress and their might;
Thou,
Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou
in the darkness drear their one true light:
Alleluia,
alleluia!
O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine,
Yet
all are one in thee, for all are thine:
Alleluia, alleluia!
But,
lo, there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The
saints triumphant rise in bright array:
The
King of glory passes on his way:
Alleluia, alleluia!
If you kept a record of our sins, Lord, who could escape condemnation?
Out
of the depths I cry to you, 0 Lord, Lord, hear my voice! O let your ears
be attentive to the voice of my pleading.
If
you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive? But with you
is found forgiveness: for this we revere you.
My
soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on his word. My soul is longing for
the Lord more than watchman for daybreak. Let the watchman count on
daybreak and Israel on the Lord.
Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed he will redeem from all its iniquity.
As the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son gives life to whom he wills.
NT Testament Canticle
Though
he was in the form of God, Jesus did not deem equality with God something
to be grasped at.
Rather,
he emptied himself and took the form of a slave, being born in the
likeness of men.
He
was known to be of human estate, and it was thus that he humbled himself,
obediently accepting even death, death on a cross!
Because
of this, God highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name above every
other name,
so that at Jesus’ name every knee must bend in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim to the glory of God the Father: JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!
O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? But thanks be to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In
you, Lord, is our hope. We shall never hope in vain.
In
you, Lord, is our hope. We shall never hope in vain.
We
shall dance and rejoice in your mercy.
We shall never hope in vain.
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.
In you, Lord, is our hope. We shall never hope in vain.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and who ever comes to me I shall not turn away.
Mary's Canticle
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 forever.
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.
We
acknowledge Christ the Lord through whom we hope that our lowly bodies
will be made like his in glory, and we say: Lord, you are our life and
resurrection.
Christ,
Son of the living God, who raised up Lazarus, your friend, from the dead,
raise up to life and glory the dead whom you have redeemed by your
precious blood.
Christ,
consoler of those who mourn, you dried the tears of the family of Lazarus,
of the widow’s son, and the daughter of Jairus, comfort those who mourn
for the dead.
Christ,
Savior, destroy the reign of sin in our earthly bodies, so that just as
through sin we deserved punishment, so through you we may gain eternal
life.
Christ, Redeemer, look on those who have no because they do not know you,
hope may they receive faith in the resurrection and in the life of the
world to come.
You
revealed yourself to the blind man who begged for the light of his eyes,
show your face to the dead who are still deprived of your light.
When at last our earthly home is dissolved, give us a home, not of earthly making, but built of eternity in heaven.
The Lord's Prayer
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. Amen.
Final Prayer
Lord
God, you are the glory of believers and the life of the just.
Our brother (sister) N. was faithful and believed in our own resurrection.
We
ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with
you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
Trinitarian Ending
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Conclusion