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>> THE TEXTS FOR SUNDAY VESPERS
WITH BENEDICTION ARE AVAILABLE
AT ewtn.com/VESPERS.
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♪ O SALUTARIS HOSTIA, QUAE CAELI
PANDIS OSTIUM, BELLA PREMUNT
HOSTILIA, DA ROBUR, FER
AUXILIUM ♪
♪ UNI TRINOQUE DOMINO SIT
SEMPITERNA GLORIA ♪
♪ QUI VITAM SINE TERMINO, NOBIS
DONET IN PATRIA ♪
♪ AMEN ♪
>> THIS EVENING WE OFFER OUR
VESPERS FOR A SPECIAL INTENTION,
FOR AN END TO THE WILDFIRES IN
CALIFORNIA.
>> ♪ O GOD, COME TO MY
ASSISTANCE ♪
>> ♪ O LORD, MAKE HASTE TO HELP
ME 7♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ O BLEST CREATOR OF THE LIGHT
WHO MAK'ST THE DAY WITH RADIANCE
BRIGHT ♪
♪ AND O'ER THE FORMING WORLD
DIDST CALL THE LIGHT FROM CHAOS
FIRST OF ALL ♪
♪ WHOSE WISDOM JOINED IN MEET
ARRAY THE MORN AND EVE, AND
NAMED THEM DAY ♪
♪ NIGHT COMES WITH ALL ITS
DARKLING FEARS, REGARD THY
PEOPLE'S PRAYERS AND TEARS ♪
♪ LEST, SUNK IN SIN, AND WHELM'D
WITH STRIFE THEY LOSE THE GIFT
OF ENDLESS LIFE WHILE THINKING
BUT THE THOUGHTS OF TIME, THEY
WEAVE NEW CHAINS OF WOE AND
CRIME ♪
♪ BUT GRANT THEM GRACE THAT THEY
MAY STRAIN THE HEAV'NLY GATE AND
PRIZE TO GAIN EACH HARMFUL LURE
ASIDE TO CAST AND PURGE AWAY
EACH ERROR PAST ♪
♪ O FATHER, THAT WE ASK BE
DONE ♪
♪ THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THINE
ONLY SON WHO, WITH THE HOLY
GHOST AND THEE, DOTH LIVE AND
REIGN ETERNALLY ♪
♪ AMEN ♪
>> ♪ THE LORD WILL STRETCH
FORTH HIS MIGHTY SCEPTER FROM
SION, AND HE WILL REIGN FOR
EVER, ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ THE LORD'S REVELATION TO MY
MASTER, SIT ON MY RIGHT, YOUR
FOES I WILL PUT BENEATH YOUR
FEET ♪
>> ♪ THE LORD WILL WIELD FROM
SION YOUR SCEPTER OF POWER, RULE
IN THE MIDST OF ALL YOUR FOES ♪
>> ♪ A PRINCE FROM THE DAY OF
YOUR BIRTH ON THE HOLY
MOUNTAINS ♪
♪ FROM THE WOMB BEFORE THE DAWN
I BEGOT YOU ♪
>> ♪ THE LORD HAS SWORN AN OATH
HE WILL NOT CHANGE YOU ARE A
PRIEST FOREVER, A PRIEST LIKE
MELCHIZEDEK OF OLD ♪
>> ♪ THE MASTER STANDING AT YOUR
RIGHT HAND WILL SHATTER KINGS IN
THE DAY OF HIS GREAT WRATH ♪
♪ HE SHALL DRINK FROM THE STREAM
BY THE WAYSIDE AND THEREFORE HE
SHALL LIFT UP HIS HEAD ♪
>> ♪ 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 LORD WILL STRETCH FORTH
HIS MIGHTY SCEPTER FROM SION,
AND HE WILL REIGN FOR EVER,
ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ THE EARTH IS SHAKEN TO ITS
DEPTHS BEFORE THE GLORY OF YOUR
FACE ♪
♪ WHEN ISRAEL CAME FORTH FROM
EGYPT, JACOB'S SONS FROM AN
ALIEN PEOPLE ♪
♪ JUDAH BECAME THE LORD'S
TEMPLE, ISRAEL BECAME HIS
KINGDOM ♪
♪ THE SEA FLED AT THE SIGHT, THE
JORDAN TURNED BACK ON ITS
COURSE ♪
♪ THE MOUNTAINS LEAPT LIKE RAMS
AND THE HILLS LIKE YEARLING
SHEEP ♪
♪ WHY WAS IT, SEA, THAT YOU
FLED, THAT YOU TURNED BACK,
JORDAN, ON YOUR COURSE ♪
♪ MOUNTAINS, THAT YOU LEAPT LIKE
RAMS, HILLS, LIKE YEARLING
SHEEP ♪
OF JACOB ♪
♪ WHO TURNS THE ROCK INTO A POOL
AND FLINT INTO A SPRING OF
WATER ♪
>> ♪ 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 EARTH IS SHAKEN TO ITS
DEPTHS BEFORE THE GLORY OF YOUR
FACE ♪
>> ♪ ALL POWER IS YOURS, LORD
GOD, OUR MIGHTY KING,
ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ SALVATION, GLORY, AND POWER
TO OUR GOD ♪
>> ♪ ALLELU-IA ♪
>> ♪ HIS JUDGMENTS ARE HONEST
AND TRUE ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ SING PRAISE TO OUR GOD, ALL
YOU HIS SERVANTS ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ ALL WHO WORSHIP HIM
REV'RENTLY, GREAT AND SMALL ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ THE LORD OUR ALL-POWERFUL
GOD IS KING ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ LET US REJOICE, SING
PRAISE, AND GIVE HIM GLORY ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ THE WEDDING FEAST OF THE
LAMB HAS BEGUN ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ AND HIS BRIDE IS PREPARED
TO WELCOME HIM ♪
>> ♪ ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ♪
>> ♪ 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 ♪
>> ♪ ALL POWER IS YOURS, LORD
GOD, OUR MIGHTY KING,
ALLELUIA ♪
>> PRAISED BE GOD, THE FATHER OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE
FATHER OF MERCIES AND THE GOD OF
ALL CONSOLATION.
HE COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR
AFFLICTIONS AND THUS ENABLES US
TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE IN
TROUBLE, WITH THE SAME
CONSOLATION WE HAVE RECEIVED
FROM HIM.
>> ♪ THE WHOLE CREATION
PROCLAIMS THE GREATNESS OF YOUR
GLORY ♪
>> ♪ THE WHOLE CREATION
PROCLAIMS THE GREATNESS OF YOUR
GLORY ♪
>> ♪ ETERNAL AGES PRAISE ♪
>> ♪ THE GREATNESS OF YOUR
GLORY ♪
>> ♪ GLORY TO THE FATHER, AND TO
THE SON, AND TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT ♪
>> ♪ THE WHOLE CREATION
PROCLAIMS THE GREATNESS OF YOUR
GLORY ♪
♪ YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF
THE LIVING GOD, BLESSED ARE YOU
SIMON, SON OF JOHN ♪
>> ♪ 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 FOREVER ♪
♪ AMEN ♪
♪ YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF
THE LIVING GOD, BLESSED ARE YOU
SIMON, SON OF JOHN ♪
>> ♪ CHRIST THE LORD IS OUR
HEAD, WE ARE HIS MEMBERS ♪
♪ IN JOY LET US CALL OUT TO
HIM ♪
>> ♪ LORD, MAY YOUR KINGDOM
COME ♪
>> ♪ CHRIST OUR SAVIOR MAKE YOUR
CHURCH A MORE VIVID SYMBOL OF
THE UNITY OF ALL MANKIND,
♪ MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVELY THE
SACRAMENT OF SALVATION FOR ALL
PEOPLES ♪
>> ♪ LORD, MAY YOUR KINGDOM
COME ♪
>> ♪ THROUGH YOUR PRESENCE GUIDE
THE COLLEGE OF BISHOPS IN UNION
WITH THE POPE
♪ GIVE THEM THE GIFTS OF UNITY,
LOVE AND PEACE ♪
>> ♪ LORD, MAY YOUR KINGDOM
COME ♪
>> ♪ BIND ALL CHRISTIANS MORE
CLOSELY TO YOURSELF, THEIR
DIVINE HEAD
♪ LEAD THEM TO PROCLAIM YOUR
KINGDOM BY THE WITNESS OF THEIR
LIVES ♪
>> ♪ LORD, MAY YOUR KINGDOM
COME ♪
>> ♪ GRANT PEACE TO THE WORLD
♪ LET EVERY LAND FLOURISH IN
JUSTICE AND SECURITY ♪
>> ♪ LORD, MAY YOUR KINGDOM
COME ♪
>> ♪ GRANT TO THE DEAD THE GLORY
OF RESURRECTION
♪ AND GIVE US A SHARE IN THEIR
HAPPINESS ♪
>> ♪ LORD, MAY YOUR KINGDOM
COME ♪
>> FATHER: ♪ PRAECEPTIS
SALUTARIBUS MONITI, ET DIVINIA
INSTITUTIONE FORMATI AUDEMUS
DICERE ♪
>> ♪ PATER NOSTER, QUI ES IN
CAELIS SANCTIFICETUR NOMEN TUUM
ADVENIAT REGNUM TUUM FIAT
VOLUNTAS TUA, SICUT IN CAELO, ET
IN TERRA ♪
♪ PANEM NOSTRUM QUOTIDIANUM DA
NOBIS HODIE ET, ET DIMITTE NOBIS
DEBITA NOSTRA, SICUT ET NOS
DIMITTIMUS DEBITORIBUS NOSTRIS
ET NE NOS INDUCAS IN TENTATIONEM
SED LIBERA NOS A MALO ♪
>> Father: COMPLETE WITHIN US,
O LORD, WE PRAY, THE HEALING
WORK OF YOUR MERCY AND
GRACIOUSLY PERFECT AND SUSTAIN
US SO THAT IN ALL THINGS WE MAY
PLEASE YOU THROUGH CHRIST OUR
LORD ♪
>>
♪ ♪ AMEN ♪
♪ TANTUM ERGO SACRAMENTUM
VENEREMUR CERNUI ♪
♪ ET ANTIQUUM DOCUMENTUM NOVO
CEDAT RITUI, PRAESTET FIDES
SUPPLEMENTUM SENSUUM DEFECTUI ♪
♪ GENITORI, GENITOQUE LAUS ET
JUBILATIO ♪
♪ SALUS, HONOR, VIRTUS QUOQUE
SIT ET BENEDICTIO ♪
♪ PROCEDENTI AB UTROQUE, COMPAR
SIT LAUDATIO ♪
♪ AMEN ♪
>> ♪ PANEM DE CELO PRESTITÍSTI
EIS ♪
>> ♪ OMNE DELECTAMÉNTUM IN SE
HABÉNTEM ♪
>> ♪ OREMUS ♪
♪ DEUS, QUI NOBIS SUB SACRAMÉNTO
MIRÁBILI, PASSIÓNIS TUE MEMÓRIAM
RELIQUÍSTI TRIBUE, QUESUMUS, ITA
NOS CÓRPORIS ET SÁNGUINIS TUI
SACRA MYSTÉRIA VENERÁRI, UT
REDEMPTIÓNIS TUE FRUCTUM IN
NOBIS IÚGITER SENTIÁMUS ♪
♪ QUI VIVIS ET REGNAS IN SECULA
SECULÓRUM ♪
♪ AMEN ♪
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>> Father: THE DIVINE PRAISES.
♪ BLESSED BE GOD ♪
♪ BLESSED BE HIS HOLY NAME ♪
♪ BLESSED BE JESUS CHRIST TRUE
GOD AND TRUE MAN ♪
♪ BLESSED BE THE NAME OF
JESUS ♪
♪ BLESSED BE HIS MOST SACRED
HEART ♪
♪ BLESSED BE HIS MOST PRECIOUS
BLOOD ♪
♪ BLESSED BE JESUS IN THE MOST
HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR ♪
♪ BLESSED BE THE HOLY SPIRIT,
THE PARACLETE ♪
♪ BLESSED BE THE GREAT MOTHER OF
GOD, MARY MOST HOLY ♪
♪ BLESSED BE HER HOLY AND
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ♪
♪ BLESSED BE HER GLORIOUS
ASSUMPTION ♪
♪ BLESSED BE THE NAME OF MARY,
VIRGIN AND MOTHER ♪
♪ BLESSED BE ST. JOSEPH, HER
MOST CHASTE SPOUSE ♪
♪ BLESSED BE GOD IN HIS ANGELS
AND IN HIS SAINTS ♪
>> MAY THE HEART OF JESUS IN THE
MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT BE
PRAISED, ADORED, AND LOVED WITH
GRATEFUL AFFECTION AT EVERY
MOMENT IN ALL OF THE TABERNACLES
OF THE WORLD, EVEN UNTIL THE END
OF TIME.
>> AMEN.
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♪ HOLY GOD, WE PRAISE THY
NAME ♪
♪ LORD OF ALL, WE BOW BEFORE
THEE ♪
♪ ALL ON EARTH, THY SCEPTER
CLAIM ♪
♪ ALL IN HEAVEN ABOVE ADORE
THEE ♪
♪ INFINITE THY VAST DOMAIN,
EVERLASTING IS THY REIGN ♪
♪ INFINITE THY VAST DOMAIN,
EVERLASTING IS THY REIGN ♪
♪ HARK, THE LOUD CELESTIAL HYMN
♪ ANGEL CHOIRS ABOVE ARE
RAISING ♪
♪ CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM,
IN UNCEASING CHORUS PRAISING ♪
♪ FILL THE HEAVENS ♪
♪ WITH SWEET ACCORD ♪
