MORNING PRAYER
Matins
L O
Lord, open my lips,
C and
my mouth shall declare your praise.
C 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
The alleluia is
omitted during Lent.
C Alleluia.
Alleluia.
L Give
glory to God, our light and our life.
C Oh,
come, let us worship him.
C Oh,
come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us shout for joy to the rock of our
salvation.
I Let
us come before his presence with thanksgiving
and raise a loud
shout to him with psalms.
II For the Lord is a great God
and a great king
above all gods.
I In
his hand are the caverns of the earth;
the heights of
the hills are also his.
II The sea is his, for he made it;
and his hands
have molded the dry land.
I Oh,
come, let us bow down and bend the knee,
and kneel before
the Lord, our maker.
II For he is our God,
and we are the
people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
C 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
C Oh,
come, let us worship him.
A second psalm is sung or said.
Additional psalms and an Old Testament canticle may be sung or
said also.
Silence for meditation follows each psalm or canticle.
One or two LESSONS are read.
Silence for meditation follows each reading.
A response to the reading(s) may
follow the silence. The leader then continues:
L In
many and various ways God spoke to his people of old by the prophets.
C But
now in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.
C Blessed
be the Lord, the God of Israel;
he has come to his people and
set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty
Savior,
born of the house of his servant
David.
Through his holy prophets he
promised of old
that he would
save us from our enemies,
from the hands
of all who hate us.
He promised to
show mercy to our fathers
and to remember
his holy covenant.
This was the oath he swore to
our father Abraham:
to set us free
from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship
him without fear,
holy and
righteous in his sight
all the days of
our life.
L You,
my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High,
for
you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
to
give his people knowledge of salvation
by
the forgiveness of their sins.
In
the tender compassion of our God,
the
dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to
shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,
and
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
C 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
L O
Lord, almighty and everlasting God, you have brought us in safety to this new
day; preserve us with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be
overcome in adversity; and in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your
purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
C Amen
L Lord,
remember us in your kingdom, and teach us to pray:
C 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.
For thine is the kingdom, and
the power, and the glory,
forever and
ever. Amen
L Let
us bless the Lord.
C Thanks
be to God.
L The
Lord almighty bless us, and direct our days and our deeds in his peace.
C Amen
