Monday, November 25
The Midday Office To Be Observed on the Hour or Half Hour Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m
The Call to Prayer
Hallelujah! Sing to the LORD a new song;* sing his praise in the congregation of the faithful. Psalm 149:1
The Request for Presence
Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock;* shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim..Psalm 80:1
The Greeting
The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. Amen. Traditional
The Refrain for the Midday Lessons
The LORD shall watch over your going out and your coming in* from this time forth for evermore. Psalm 121:8
A Reading
Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy and eat; come, buy milk and wine without money, free! Why spend money on what cannot nourish and your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and you will have good things to eat and rich food to enjoy. Pay attention, come to me; listen, and you will live. I shall make an everlasting covenant with you in fulfillment of the favors promised to David. Isaiah 55:1-3
The Refrain
The LORD shall watch over your going out and your coming in* from this time forth for evermore. Psalm 121:8
The Midday Psalm
The LORD Has Cut the Cords of the Wicked
“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,”* let Israel now say; “Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,* but they have not prevailed against me.” The plowmen plowed upon my back* and made their furrows long. The LORD, the Righteous One,* has cut the cords of the wicked. Let them be put to shame and thrown back,* all those who are enemies of Zion. Let them be like grass upon the housetops,* which withers before it can be plucked; Which does not fill the hand of the reaper,* nor the bosom of him who binds the sheaves; So that those who go by say not so much as, “The LORD prosper you.* We wish you well in the Name of the LORD.” Psalm 129
The Refrain
The LORD shall watch over your going out and your coming in* from this time forth for evermore. Psalm 121:8
The Gloria
Glory be to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, so it is now and so it shall ever be, world without end. Alleluia. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your Name. May your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for yours are the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
The Prayer Appointed for the Week
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.†
The Concluding Prayer of the Church
Let us bless the Lord God living and true! Let us always render him praise, glory, honor, blessing, and all good things! Amen. Amen. So be it! So be it!
St. Francis of Assisi