Midmorning Prayer - Solemnity for
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Ribbon Placement:
Liturgy of the Hours Vol. II:
Ordinary: 1054
Complementary Psalmody: 1651 (Midmorning)
Proper of Saints: 1750 (antiphon, reading, concluding prayer)
Midmorning Prayer for the Solemnity of the Annunciation, using the Complementary Psalmody
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.
HYMN
Let every age and nation own
That life's reward at length is shown;
The foe's hard yoke is cast away,
Redemption has appeared today.
Isaiah's strains fulfilment meet,
And in the Virgin are complete:
The angel's tongue has called her blest,
The Holy Ghost has filled her breast.
The Virgin Mary has conceived
By that true word that which she believed;
And whom the wide world cannot hold,
A spotless maiden's arms enfold.
Now the Old Adam's sinful stain
Does the New Adam cleanse again;
And what the first by pride o'erthrew,
This lowliest One uprears anew.
All honor, laud, and glory be,
O Jesus, Virgin born, to thee!
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete. Amen.
| 𝄞 | "Let Every Age and Nation Own" by Kathleen Lundquist, Sara Faux • Title: Let Every Age and Nation Own; Text: Agnoscat omne saeculum, 7th-8th c.; Tr. John M. Neale, alt.; Tune: Chant, Mode VIII; Liber Hymnarius; Artist: Kathleen Lundquist; Accompaniment: Sara Faux; Recording copyright 2016 by Surgeworks, Inc. |
PSALMODY
Ant. 1 The Virgin Mary came forth from the root of Jesse, and the Spirit of the Most High came to dwell in her heart.
Psalm 120
Longing for peace
To the Lord in the hour of my distress
I call and he answers me.
“O Lord, save my soul from lying lips,
from the tongue of the deceitful.”
What shall he pay you in return,
O treacherous tongue?
The warrior’s arrows sharpened
and coals, red-hot, blazing.
Alas, that I abide a stranger in Meshech,
dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Long enough have I been dwelling
with those who hate peace.
I am for peace, but when I speak,
they are for fighting.
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 121
Guardian of his people
Never again will they hunger and thirst, never again know scorching heat (Revelation 7:16)
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 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.
Psalm 122
The holy city, Jerusalem
You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22)
I rejoiced when I heard them say:
Let us go to God’s house.
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is built as a city
strongly compact.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgment
of the house of David.
For the peace of Jerusalem pray:
“Peace be to your homes!
May peace reign in your walls,
in your palaces, peace!”
For love of my brethren and friends
I say: Peace upon you.
For love of the house of the Lord
I will ask for your good.
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. The Virgin Mary came forth from the root of Jesse, and the Spirit of the Most High came to dwell in her heart.
READING Ephesians 1:9b-10
God has given the plan to be carried out in the fullness of time: namely, to bring all things in the heavens and on earth into one under Christ’s headship.
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.
The angel of the Lord brought God’s message to Mary.
— And she conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.
CONCLUDING PRAYER
O God,
who willed that your Word should take on
the reality of human flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary,
grant, we pray, that we,
who confess our Redeemer to be God and man,
may merit to become partakers even in his divine nature.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
— Amen.
ACCLAMATION (only added when praying in community)
Let us praise the Lord.
— And give him thanks.