Thursday · Evening
Evening thanksgiving: the day is offered back to God, with the Magnificat of Our Lady.
Ant. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity:
Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron,
Which ran down to the skirt of his garment: as the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion.
For there the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.
Ant. Give ye glory to the Lord for his mercy endureth for ever.
Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Ant. Give ye glory to the Lord for he was mindful of us in our affliction.
Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever.
With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endureth for ever.
For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy endureth for ever.
For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Ant. Let my tongue cleave to my jaws if I do not remember thee, Jerusalem.
Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs.
And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.
How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee:
If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem:
Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.
Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.
Ant. I will give glory to thy name, for thy mercy, and for thy truth.
I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth.
I will sing praise to thee in the sight of the Angels: I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name.
For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul.
May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have heard all the words of thy mouth.
And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.
If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: † and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.
The Lord will repay for me: † thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.
O sovereign Lord of nature’s might,Who bad’st the water’s birth divide;Part in the heavens to take their flight,And part in ocean’s deep to hide;
These low obscured, on airy wingExalted those, that either race,Though from one element they spring,Might serve thee in a different place.
Grant, Lord, that we thy servants all,Saved by thy tide of cleansing blood,No more ’neath sin's dominion fall,Nor fear the thought of death’s dark flood!
Thy varied love each spirit bless,The humble cheer, the high control;Check in each heart its proud excess,But raise the meek and contrite soul!
This boon, O Father, we entreat,This blessing grant, Eternal Son,And Holy Ghost, the Paraclete,Both now, and while the ages run.
Amen.
Roman Breviary, 1962: the ferial and Sunday psalter and the fixed hymns and responsories (Divinum Officium). The propers of the season and of the saints, the readings and the prayers are not yet in the library.